When your server brings food to the table and inquires as to who ordered which dish, that’s informally known in the restaurant biz as auctioning. If your meal is delayed because the person who took your order forgot about it, that’s called a...
expo n.— «Expo: expedite or expediter. noun… the kitchen station which dresses the plates and does the final inspection of them before being sent out to the servers. Also, the person doing the expediting. verb… the act of...
all day adv.— «All day: the total number of orders of a particular item needed at that moment (“I need 5 salmon all day,” or “I need 3 Margaritas all day”).» —“restaurant lingo… the Top 30...

