A French brand of food processor. Sometimes used as a generic term for any food processor, like Cuisinart. Pronounced “ROBO-coop”.

A table with a certain number of customers at it. A table of 4 is a “four top”.

Suffix added to certain words related to applying heat to food (i.e. bake, cook, saute, grill, brown, sear) for no good reason. e.g. “Brown off that meat when you’re done with the veg, ok?”

The kitchen is no longer able to make a dish on the menu and it’s now unavailable.

A listing of all of the dishes a station should have cooking at any given time. “Order, 2 filet rare, 1 medium. With the last table’s filet rare and ribeye med rare, that’s 3 filet rare, 1 filet medium, and a ribeye med rare all day.”

A strip of metal that order tickets hang from. aka “rail”.

Back Of House, the kitchen, walk-in, dry goods, any area where you don’t deal with customers. Also refers to the group of people who work there (chef, cooks, dishwashers, etc.).

An abbreviation for chicken. This is only written, never spoken.

When you’re running low on something, the number of portions that can be made before you run out and the dish is 86’d. “We got a count of 4 on lamb, spread the word.”