• Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    22 days 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.

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      22 days 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

      • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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        22 days 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.

      • Wolfram@lemmy.world
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        22 days 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.

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            21 days 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.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        22 days 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.

        • Organichedgehog@lemmy.world
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          21 days 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.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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        22 days 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.

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          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!”

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            22 days ago

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

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              22 days 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.

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        21 days 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

      • zaph@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days 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.

      • Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
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        21 days 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.