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[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 292 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Organichedgehog@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 126 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Wolfram@lemmy.world 102 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Organichedgehog@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"I NEVER HEARDA 86, DOWNVOTED CAUSE IM FUCKIN DUMB"

[-] Wolfram@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure how never having learned about 86 as I've worked makes me dumb. Besides that, I thought Lemmy wasn't gonna take off? You can delete your account any time you want. You don't make it easy on yourself by acting like a baby.

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 94 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 76 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

nobody writes down the number

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

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 18 points 11 months ago

And he got his 86 cherries for his troubles.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago
[-] Organichedgehog@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago

Restaurant lingo isn't fast food lingo ya dolt.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 65 points 11 months ago

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!"

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Mileage varies. I've seen "86 [thing]" written on whiteboards more often than not, grammatically speaking.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also, a single cherry is the norm, perched decoratively atop the whipped cream. So "86 the cherry" would have been clear, and they could maybe get away with "86 cherry" according to you, but "86 cherries" might as well be "69 cherries." You wouldn't expect that to mean mutual oral sex.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You've done both? That's rough, buddy.

[-] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

It's even the same amount of characters 🤦

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 47 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Organichedgehog@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 46 points 11 months ago

Working in fast food is pretty different from full restaurants. I worked fast food first, never heard the term until I started waiting tables a few years later. In fast food, there's not as much of a chain of communication that requires pass phrases to get info across quickly. Just one kid with an order terminal and another kid assembling the order as it was entered.

All of that aside, if I hear someone use that term IRL, it does tend to sound pretentious because you're basically using jargon outside of its typical area of use and expecting everyone to know wtf you're talking about. It's almost like you want someone to ask, so you can be like "you don't kNoW???"

Probably people don't mean to come off that way, but that is the vibe I catch most of the time.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

How is "86 the cherries" quicker than saying "no cherries"? Sounds like 4 times as long.

For context, I never worked in a restaurant and I just learned that jargon now.

[-] Krzd@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

In loud environments "lengthening" things makes sense, especially with sudden noises. "Spaghetti, eig-CLANG-x olives" is easier to understand than "Spaghetti, CLANG olives".

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It basically sidesteps any conversation about what you mean. If you said to the line or to your fellow waiters "no cherries" that wouldn't make any sense. Like, in what context would they guess you meant that? You'd at the very least have to say "we have no more cherries", which is much longer than saying "86 cherries".

If you mean in the context of the OP, though, then yes I completely agree, the customer was being extra and not actually shortening what they were trying to say.

[-] Organichedgehog@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

you're basically using jargon outside of its typical area of use and expecting everyone to know wtf you're talking about

I mean, the guy who used the restaurant term was giving directions directly to a restaurant.

Like I said, I would personally just say "no cherries", but messaging restaurant lingo to a restaurant isn't some crazy reach. Not enough to warrant the original comment that I responded to, basically saying "fuck that guy, eat your fuckin cherries".

[-] nulluser@programming.dev 36 points 11 months ago

I mean, the guy who used the restaurant term was giving directions directly to a restaurant.

A "fast food joint" is not a restaurant in that sense. Nobody with any common sense would expect a bunch of kids working their (likely) first job for spending money to be up on, or care about, restaurant jargon.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

So many people in here saying teenagers. It's often older people who work these shit minimum wage jobs. How could McDonald's be open at noon on a Wednesday if it was being run by a bunch of high school kids?

Didn't mean to single you out really it's just the fourth time in this thread I saw someone say fast food is a bunch of kids. It's really fucking poor adults. Trust me I was one.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

Probably because that's what the OP said were working there

[-] nulluser@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's an absolutely fair point.

Nevertheless, my overall point stands. Each fast food place I worked at had their own chain specific jargon. Nobody used, or cared about, sit-down restaurant jargon.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 months ago

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

[-] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Bro these are high schoolers working fast food

[-] mr_satan@monyet.cc 30 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 21 points 11 months ago
[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

To add, that's the only context I've ever heard it used in when working in restaurants (to convey that we can't sell or offer anymore of a thing). If someone order a lasagna with no olives, no one will say "lasagna, 86 olives".

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Who makes Lasagna with olives? And WHY DOESN'T IT SOUND ALL THAT BAD?

[-] fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Worked in an italian restaurant for a few years. IIRC our lasagna generally had pork sausage, yellow squash, onions, bell peppers, black olives and a bunch of the usual cheeses. Probably had some other veggies too but it's been a while since I worked there.

It was good lasagna.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think I should get more creative with my lasagna, those sound like good additions!

[-] null@slrpnk.net 20 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] riwo 18 points 11 months ago

least toxic person on the internet

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

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%27s

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

86 your account bud

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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.

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