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Yeah, that’s on the customer. If you write that you want a bunch of fuckin cherries then you’re getting a bunch of fuckin cherries. Now go eat the pile of cherries you ordered.

Honestly I’d work under the assumption that restaurant employees knew what “86” meant. I’d still prob just write “no cherries” lol but the assumption isn’t that crazy. It’s common restaurant lingo.

Edit: people that never worked in a restaurant downvoting me “I NEVER HEARD OF NO 86, DOWNVOTED FOR SHARING AN ANECDOTE” lol this site is cancer. There’s a reason lemmy will never take off, and it’s the user base

In my 30s, and while I’ve heard “let’s 86 the _____” numerous times, I honestly wouldn’t have connected that to “86 cherries” on an order.

I’ve worked in food, fast and fancy, and nobody would say “86 cherries” instead of “no cherries”. Clarity is conducive to a smoothly flowing kitchen.

As someone who’s worked a few fast food jobs, no, I’d have no fucking clue what is meant by that. Piss and cry in your edit all you want.

“I NEVER HEARDA 86, DOWNVOTED CAUSE IM FUCKIN DUMB”

It’s common resturant lingo but fast food is completely different from resturant work. Also “86” literally has the same number of characters as “no”. They could have put down “no cherries” with the exact same ease. They decided to play a stupid game so they won a stupid prize, a stupid amount of cherries.

Downvotes mean nothing here. You dont have to get upset. Writing 86 cherries when you mean no cherries on a piece of paper with no context is a dumbass thing to do. Write what you mean and be concise. Nobody writes down the number 86 when they mean no. The separation from the vocal component is enough to be confusing.

nobody writes down the number

um the guy in this post CLEARLY did so. i just proved you wrong pal

downvotes here mean exactly as much as they mean anywhere else

AND FOR THE 9TH TIME, I wouldn’t write “86” when I meant “no”, but expecting restaurant workers to know restaurant lingo isn’t some massive stretch. He’s not speaking Latin. the bigger dumbass is 100% the person who actually put 86 cherries into a milkshake.

It is absolutely common restaurant lingo. I can use it with anyone I know from restaurants seamlessly.

That said, fast food work is a different subculture.

But wouldn’t the common restaurant lingo be “86 THE cherries?”

86 is a verb. To 86 something is to exclude it. But 86 alone is a number like any other. Just as 50 alone isn’t pronounced “five-oh” and doesn’t mean the Hawaii State Police. If I said “I’m 50,” you’d assume it’s my age, not my profession.

If I said, “That’s the shit!” I’d mean the opposite of “That’s shit!”

Yeah, I’ve never once heard it when I worked fast food, only full service

You’re downvoted because dude. Just no…

“86 cherries” means eighty six cherries, “no cherries” means no cherries… If people learnt to communicate clearly this world would be a better place

Edit: also this has nothing to do with Lemmy being “cancer”? Your argument is poor

It’s even the same amount of characters 🤦

I’m 46 and it’s the first time I hear it. I would probably ask a manager what to do as 86 cherries is a lot but my AuDHD is ok with counting exactly 86 cherries lol

I’m 33 and I understood, probably more regional than anything

I’m guessing you’ve never worked in a restaurant? Like I said, in my experience it’s common in the industry

Bro these are high schoolers working fast food

Sorry dog I worked in food service as a teenager and didn’t learn what 86ing was until I heard Gordon Ramsay say it in an episode of kitchen nightmares.

TIL, cool

But, yeah, I would read it as pretentious little thing even if I knew the lingo. Honestly I approve the person getting 86 cherries. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

It’s usually used in the context of a restaurant kitchen. Like if they run out of olives they would yell eighty-six olives. So don’t sell anything with olives without warning and don’t go looking for them.

You’re being downvoted because you’re just flat-out wrong.

“86” doesn’t mean “hold this item”, it means the kitchen is out of that item.

So no, it wouldn’t make sense even to people that know restaurant lingo.

Here’s where the ‘86’ came from.

Back in the day, there was a speakeasy with two doors. The entry door was through a small courtyard and the exit door was onto the street. If you knocked on the street door, which had the address on it, you couldn’t get in. If you got obnoxious, you’d be thrown out the street door. That door had an ‘86’ on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumley's

I have never heard of either 86 nor this speakeasy. What a cool thing to learn! Thanks for sharing this historic nugget!

Edit, autocorrect on grammar

least toxic person on the internet

The edit makes it worse, it gives me another reason to downvote.

I worked at a fast food joint for a while and never heard of 86 referring to something being out. We never even used numbers as codes for anything in the first place and I don’t know why we would when everybody is working in such close quarters with one another.

ive literally never heard of that stupid slang in my entire life

Never heard of it so I had to look

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin

Eighty-six is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to.” It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.

That was my experience as well. Though we would also refer to a banned customer as “86’d.”

Same meaning in my experience. The patron is kicked out. 86’d is the past tense. ‘they have been 86’d’

You no longer have any of that product, ingredient, or in this case customer.

“86 the chef special” == get rid of it [from the menu]

No, “86 the chef special” means 'kitchen is out of chef special.

Yes, your task is to remove it from the menu.

But you aren’t 86ing it.

You’re marking it as 86’d because the quantity is below minimum threshold (usually zero).

str 86;

str itmTo86;

86='get rid of';

info(strFmt('%1 %2',86,itmTo86));

(This won’t actually work, since you can’t assign ints as variables, but whatever. It was fun)

In a workshop environment I’ve heard “86 it” to mean “get rid of it.” synonymous with “shitcan it.”

And that’s the joke behind Agent 86’s number on Get Smart. He’s a bad agent, and someone should have gotten rid of him.

I heard/read years ago “86ing” came from the old west referring to killing somebody. You’d take them “80 miles out” and bury them “6 feet deep.”

This right here is my truth. If 80 miles out & 6 feet deep is wrong, than I don’t wanna be right. Always loved this expression and origin story.

I don’t really care for what, if you are requesting something from someone you don’t know in a way that’s intentionally stupid or roundabout, you need to be prepared to get exactly what you asked for.

Fast food doubly so, they give no shits. Ask for a burger but hold the burger? Expect an empty wrapper.

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

Had a friend who worked in a pizza store have someone order at pizza with chilli as an ingredient, “how hot do you want it?”, customer said “11/10”. They were very generous with the chilli flakes. Customer then called back to complain it was too hot!

I want to go to that pizza shop.

My whole life I’ve asked for things to be as hot as possible only to always be disappointed.

Then on a whim I entered my states chilli eating competition and won.

Then came 5th in all of Australia.

So I don’t think it’s the restaurants fault that I don’t find my food hot enough haha

Was this customer a 1930’s gangster?

Maybe!

But this is still fairly common shorthand for waiters.

Universal expression in the hospitality industry

“…”

“…Okay!”

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