Restaurant workers, is this lingo normal…

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I started a new job as a food runner at a trendy new ramen shop. I also worked at a restaurant years ago. At this new one I’m a food runner and sometimes expo (finishing dishes, getting final items).

I don’t remember this from my first restaurant job, but when communicating about tickets, they will say the ticket is ‘sold’ when it’s complete and ready to run (or packed up for carry out), or if the ticket still needs an item, they will say ‘I need an edamame to sell this ticket, and a tori ramen sells my lead ticket’.

I never feel like myself using this jargon. I’ve gotten used to all the other lingo restaurants use over years. Obviously the order is already sold literally speaking, so it seems a little confusing to invent this term. I can’t even find it on restaurant lingo websites. Is this just expo-speak? And if so why isn’t it listed on those websites?

Some of this I wonder if it’s just lingo they use at more trendy/hip restaurants to sound more important or trumpeted up.
They also say ‘heard’ or ‘heard that’ when responding to an order, again it just feels a little off to me and I can’t find myself wanting to talk like this. Mind you, I enjoy using all the other lingo restaurants use…
86ing something, two-tops/deuces, on the fly, behind…lol

I don’t recall the restaurant I worked at years ago using language like this, though I didn’t work the window then, I’m sure I would have overheard it at some point, at it was a small chain upscale Italian restaurant.

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  • ZREBELX
    2 years ago

    Different places have different lingo. Maybe they're trying to be "Hip"? As far as the "Ticket sold" goes, there is a restaurant(Take away) I go to that uses that one.

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    • donkeykong716
      2 years ago

      Ok that’s helpful. It just doesn’t seem as natural for me to say it, maybe it is something they just do there or places like it.

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      • ZREBELX
        2 years ago

        Understandable. It can be annoying/even a bit difficult learning/getting use to new lingo. Just hang in there, you got this. If anything, you'll know what it means if you encounter it elsewhere.

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