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And it unites and connects a team working hard under pressure, giving everyone a shared code that only they can understand and use. It helps staff and managers communicate important or urgent messages to each other without alarming customers and spoiling their dining experiences. Industry jargon or lingo is one vital restaurant skill anyone working in the industry needs to master. If you work or have worked in the restaurant industry-as a barback, server, hostess or bartender-chances are you've come across some gnarly restaurant lingo and know precisely what it means (if you don't, read on). Can you pick up that table? Do you see the camper at table three? The daily special of butternut soup is 86ed.

Or something made that shouldn’t be served.If you're wondering what FOH stands for or what other BOH and FOH restaurant lingo like cupcaking, deuce, and waxing the table even mean, then read on.

86: All out of an ingredient or a dish.

(Example: A four top is a table with four people.)

The board: Where all of the tickets are held so they can be fired.

Walk-in: The walk-in fridge or freezer.

In the French brigade system, they fall under the head chef, sometimes called the Executive Chef or Chef de Cuisine. Pronounced stahj, it’s like an unpaid internship.

#Restaurant lingo for free#

Stage: Someone working in a kitchen for free with the purpose of learning or with the hopes of working there in the future.Sharp: Said when you’re carrying something sharp, like a knife.(Example: five out means a dish will be ready in five minutes.) Out: The number of minutes until a dish is ready.On the line: Where the cooking is done in the kitchen.On deck: What food needs to be cooked next.In the weeds: Extremely busy or overwhelmed.Hot: Said when you’re carrying something hot.Heard: Acknowledgment that your words were heard.Hands: Asking someone to take the meal to a customer.Family or Family Meal: The meal made for the kitchen staff before or after a shift.Corner: Said when you’re walking around a corner.Chef de Partie: Within the French brigade system, this is a chef who oversees a certain part of the kitchen (the sauces, vegetables, etc.).

Each person within the system has a specific role and well-defined responsibilities.

Brigade system: The organizational system designed by French chef Auguste Escoffier.

Behind: Said when you’re walking behind someone in a kitchen.

All Day: All the food that needs to be made at that time across all the tickets.

Photo Credit: Matt Dinerstein, FX Kitchen Terms Used In The Bear Many of those kitchen terms - from 86 to hands to staging - were familiar to me, but if you’ve been watching The Bear and have no clue what they’re saying, here’s a glossary of the lingo they use. It’s a way to let people know what’s going on quickly or to alert others to your location so no one gets burned, stabbed, or walked into. Photo Credit: Matt Dinerstein, FXįrom the speed and intensity that goes on behind the door (out of view of customers) to slang like behind, it immediately dropped me back into the time when I staged in the pastry department.Ī lot of what those on the line say in kitchens is shorthand. Not only is it riveting thanks to an impeccable script and brilliant, emotional performances, it feels true to what it’s like to work in a kitchen, all the way down to the kitchen terms. The show centers around a fine dining chef who inherits his late brother’s flailing Chicago sandwich restaurant. Perhaps it’s because the first scene starts with one of my favorite songs, the Refused “New Noise,” or because the lead actor, Jeremy Allen White who plays Carmen, isn’t too hard on the eyes, or because Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) is a passionate, relatable, aspiring chef.

From the moment I started watching FX’s The Bear, I was hooked.