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The customer is always right (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -32 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.