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The customer is always right (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 295 points 4 weeks ago (52 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Was this customer a 1930's gangster?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe!

But this is still fairly common shorthand for waiters.

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[–] captain_aggravated 44 points 4 weeks ago

"..."

"...Okay!"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Just to throw it out there, 86 is also used in the film industry (at least in LA) meaning to cancel or get rid of something. It's very widely used across the industry. I don't know of any other slang that is shared between restaurants and film though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Just an aside. I worked well over 20 years in food service as a second job. I don't think "86" is a widespread term in food service, there are some of us that would know what you meant, but not many. If I had to guess, I would guess its origins were with the Trucking industry, specifically CB/shortwave radio operators since they abbreviated a TON of phrases with numbers.

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[–] kamills 38 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would 86 mean none?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

86 is a slang term that means to get rid of something. See the Green Day song '86' as an example. The origin is from a really long time ago, when it meant a menu item at restaurants was no longer available.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why would 86 mean none?

I like the theory that it's like Cockney rhyming slang—eight-six, nix.

Like what Don Cheadle's character do in Ocean's Eleven.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

That portrayal was so bad that the leading theory is his character was actually an American faking it

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

tell me about it! i ordered a cherry π and received three and some bits of cherries instead!

that's totes the fault of the guy who can't understand what i mean when i'm trying to be esoteric!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey man, I'm sorry... If they handed you a measurable quantity of cherries then you didn't get what you asked for.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What 86 has todo with "no"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I've heard "86" as slang for eliminate/remove but I don't know where it comes from, and I would never use it if I thought it could be confused with a quantity.

It sounds like something a stereotypical Chicago mobster might say, so I'd probably not use that slang anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Definitely should have written "no cherries," but it is a common restaurant industry term in the US.

Interestingly enough, you can also 86 a person. This means they're not allowed to come back to the bar/restaurant/etc...

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