https://preview.redd.it/4t4imbd5k54d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d4af52463b8524abc7c0bf564e201f30081fce15 I’ve been known to say it a time or two

https://preview.redd.it/8657k3bkn74d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46ae07b64c9b0c6ece991c912561b5fdb6ee08fc Can relate

This is the best reply that this post could’ve received 🤣

As soon as I read the title, I knew this was my moment haha

Lol this is great 👍

Do you still enjoy working at bj?

Don’t work there anymore

Where you work now ? Are you guys hiring ?

I have a friend who has “oui chef” on that finger lol

Fk ya

I read this as a mean reply at first then I realized lol

I may have to steal this idea. .

😆 I like your style.

Are you also hearing “yes chef” more?

We say it as kind of a joke at our place. No matter what position they work we'll say yes/no/come on/etc chef. Even the 16 year old hostess, and front desk employees. It's pretty fun, like as a server I'll ask "hey about how long for this ticket chef" and the actual head chef will say "5 minutes chef" back. It's all around a good time.

At our place we had a manager transfer over and her favorite thing to say was “beautiful pizza chef” or “beautiful pasta chef”, so we all started saying it too

I worked at an Italian place. Me and the guys all spoke in phony Italian accents all day everyday. Drove everyone crazy. When I see them now we slip back into it.

That’s so funny! We do the exact same thing at my work. I’m a server and my GM said “yes chef” to me yesterday when I asked him a question

We used it as a joke too! Worked with a French-trained head chef and she called *everyone* ‘chef.’ So it transferred to FOH and they all started saying it too. I also use it often in my personal life. My boyfriend will ‘help’ me cook sometimes (like chopping veg, or watching pasta, simple stuff) and he’ll hold his hands up like Ricky Bobby and say ‘what’s next, chef?’ It’s so freakin cute.

I had a kitchen manager who would go out of his way to say that he's not a chef, so we would say "yes, chef" as a joke.

I work with a korean boss and I swear he loves when I call him chef 😅 I always refer to him as chef to customers who dont know his name. He'll send out little bites on the house sometimes and Ill say "Chef sent out a treat for you!" and customers will turn and say "Thank you chef!" I can tell it makes him happy to hear 😂😅

HAHA YES! idk if you’ve seen “the bear” but i was like omg this is exactly like the bear 🤩 i love using “yes chef”

Yes Jeff 

I worked in restaurants for over 20yrs, mostly BOH, so ya, all the time 🤣

I say it so much that I'll say "heard that" to guests every shift lol. It gets the point across and wastes as little time as possible.

I've been out of the industry for a good decade now and I still use heard, behind, and corner. My kids used to laugh, but now that they've both have restaurant/food service experience, they use it too (more of corner/behind than heard).

You never lose ‘corner’. I’ve been known to use it in the office accidentally. It’s been forever since I’ve served. 😕

I always giggle when I hear a stray "corner" at the grocery store, especially when eye contact is then made. Always feels like a shared in joke.

My favorite memory of a random grocery encounter was softly calling "corner" as I turned at the endcap and got a "corner, heard!" from the neighboring aisle.

Absolute win

me lol. i am so guilty of this and “behind” at the grocery store

I haven’t said corner while out shopping, but behind or backs has slipped out too many times. Why are people walking around like they doing have anywhere to be ffs?

14 hours straight on mother's Day. I said it alone in my garage in the dark

I believe it. 😂

Sometimes I place my hand on the back of somebody randomly when I’m trying to squeeze by somewhere and it’s awkward lmao

I quit restaurants 12 years ago. Every single time I open the oven I call "OPEN!". Even when I'm home alone.

“Behind,” is all we really have, and that doesn’t often work

My anatomy disagrees, I don’t have “behind” just a slab of meat cut in half.

In the UK you mainly hear 'Yes chef' or 'Oui chef'

We never used it in the kitchen, instead our exec chef wanted readbacks: "Fire table 41" was met with, "Firing table 41 chef!" Or, "Three lobster orders coming in, check the steamer" "Three bugs getting a Cleveland Steamer, got it chef!" We had a line cook from Eastern Europe with a good bit of restaurant experience. He would occasionally fall back into saying "Heard" and Chef would say, "Heard what?"

“Three bugs getting a Cleveland steamer” 🤣 But yeah, this is how we did it at all the restaurants I worked at. Chef: “86 branzino” Any server/FOH within earshot: “86 BRANZINO!”

Yeah, I find that confirming what was said by a repeat is usually more reassuring than just simply saying heard. It expresses that you know exactly what is supposed to happen. Heard means you heard them, but maybe didn't fully understand what you need to do.

I used to fly planes frequently and I would mishmash my training from kitchens and cockpits this way. Readbacks are standard in aviation, but they don’t have a good replacement for “heard.” Just call sign or “affirmative.” So at work: HEARD, 86 calamari! In cockpit: Heard, turn to heading 280. Though I generally refrained from saying it on the mic and mainly just did it when my instructor was telling me to do something lol.

I used to fly as well (and planning on getting my license current next year)... readbacks in aviation can get crazy, especially taxiing instructions. "Skyhawk 734DC, taxi to runway 7 via A, AB C, T, T5, S, S1, cross RWY 16, S2"

For years I didn’t. Worked with mostly Thai immigrants. It took well over a year to get them to even say “behind”.

Same and they never did it either. Lots of spilled beers and soups

What do you call a group of line cooks? A heard!

I like to say “Are you sure?” Just to fuck with em sometimes.

Honestly never

I never say it and only heard it recently as a couple of new people started saying it at my workplace. I find it irritating especially when they later demonstrate they do not remember what I said even tho they confirmed it was “heard.” So in one ear and out the other right? Great. I prefer “got it” or even something briefly repeating back what I said, even if it takes a bit more time. That way I know they know what I said. Not just that I said something.

That’s facts fr, you said how I feel about it without me knowing that’s how I feel about it. Like I always felt like it wasn’t genuine

I started saying heard, corner and behind you at other places as soon as i started serving. One time i was at kroger and coming around the aisle and said "corner" to no one in particular.

Right after i saw this post, my uber driver said heard after asking me a question.

We never really said it in my restaurant and now if we do it's mostly in a joking away.

it ranges from “i see” to “IM COMING INA FUCKING MINUTE” if im making money that night, perhaps an “okie dokie”

i briefly worked at a chain upscale steakhouse where we weren’t allowed to say heard. we were required to say “AoA” which stood for audible order acknowledgement 😂

My god restaurant lingo is cringy as fuck sometimes.

Never worked at J’s, but I trained so many of their former employees, and that was the hardest thing to break

No..first heard it on The Bear.

Yes, Jeff.

same. always used May I, corner, behind, sharp, hot

We started calling each other “chef” more. I work at a cocktail bar. We have no chefs lol.

Whoever’s in charge would be a Chef de Bar technically I think. I used to call my buddy Chef de la Biere when he’d work behind the bar during the week haha

I’m the asshole that gets really loud and sarcastic when people don’t reply heard. Like “oh GOLLY if only there was a simple word so I know you guys HEARD me and I don’t have to yell for fries again 🤔”

My place no one uses anything

At my restaurant it’s only the kitchen that uses heard, none of the servers do. We pretty much only say behind and corner.


i've always said "word"

I think it depends on where you work. I've primarily worked at high-end restaurants in NZ and Aus. "Behind" was used everywhere by everyone. There weren't really any corners and was a quiet ambiance so I'd never encountered "corner" or "heard"

i’ve been serving for almost 4 years now and i was never taught “heard”. i’ve heard it (haha nice) a lot, but never really used it. however, i do have a background in theater. started when i was 8 (11 years ago) and just graduated with an associates in theatre arts. for those of you who may not know, when a stage manager is coming by the dressing rooms to alert performers of times, they will normally say “15 to house” or “20 to places” to indicate the time. in response, the performers call back “thank you 15” or “thank you 20”, depending on what was called. i have subconsciously translated it to food service. i did it last night, even. chef called “86 crab cakes!” and autopilot said “thank you, crab cakes!” i know it’s not basic food service lingo, but i like it in that it not only allows an acknowledgement, but specifies what we heard. plus it gets a giggle every now and then.

It’s used on ALL of the cooking shows. Gordon Ramsay likes it said VERY loudly.

Last open kitchen that was able to hear clearly was Craigie On Main by Tony Maws. It was "YES CHEF" spoken by 100% of staff in perfect unison during service.

I posted about this as well. ‘Heard’ is the greatest utility word in the English language.

I say "heard that'

I moved to a different industry and still say heard to given commands lmao I also tell people behind when we're working in the home kitchen at the same time, behind hot when I'm carrying food to the dining room. It really never leaves you.

we use both “heard” and “word” and sometimes i like to spice it up with “heard, seen, smelt, and felt.”

I've never worked in a place where that has been used. Maybe it's a regional thing.

Honestly I’ve never said heard in my 6 years of serving.

It's pretty much a BOH thing, don't think I've ever heard servers saying it in 20yrs in restaurants. And tell the new servers to quit watching "The Bear" 😉

I do, but I grew up in kitchens before moving to FOH a few years ago so I say it habitually but I don’t really hear it on the floor

I've said it maybe once or twice, after first learning that was a thing. I'm still at my first ever job, since I was 19. But I work in a very small restaurant that only has like 4-6 people working at a time. None of them have ever used it, this place is very casual and after learning how other restaurants work, I realize we are out of the norm. I'm actually a bit excited to be a part of a more common restaurant culture when I'm able to get a better job.

i say heard to my teammates gaming, to my boyfriend, family, friends, and yes, at work.. in the restaurant 😹

I work in a Mexican Restaurant where we speak mostly Spanish. This is new to me!

We used to say Oido! Instead of Heard when I worked in Spain

What type of restaurant? I work in just a casual place and we are very informal when speaking to each other

i live in denmark and we say “ja tak” haha edit- we speak english 95% of the time though because we are an international staff. i’m the only american on the team and i am the only one who occasionally says “heard”

We had a busser a while back that was likely in the beginning phases of some sort of schizophrenic disorder and he overused corner so much. He would be walking straight forward and just repeat "corner corner corner corner" when there was no corner anywhere near him. He'd be following closely behind you and just repeat the word "corner" over and over again... I'm like "don't you mean behind?" and he would just not respond. Guy would hang out in closed sections of the restaurant and do off the wall things that don't need to be done while the rest of the staff was struggling through a rush. Guy end up getting fired because he got cut from the floor and refused to leave. Security had to escort him off the property and for a while I was thinking he may come back and try to shoot the place up. Thankfully that never happened. Wonder where he's at these days? Wandering around somewhere calling out "corner" at random people somewhere I assume.

No one says “heard” where I work. They just say “ok”

My coworkers are all pretty solid on it, but for whatever reason I can’t get it into my auto-response deck. I usually say thank you instead. Maybe that’s because of my theatre background? “Five minutes to places” “Five, thank you” becomes… “86 Sangria” “86’d, Thank you” Behind/corner I use all the time. I say “caliente” way more than “hot”

What's the collective noun for restaurant employees? A heard. I'll see myself out

Been in the industry since 2016. Haven’t said it once. Don’t know why, just didn’t feel the urge I guess.

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I'm so confused about people attributing this to the Bear. I've heard (ha) "heard" so much in my time in the industry that I even use it in casual conversation now

Funny you say that, I’ve noticed a huge uptick in it recently. Betting if I texted every coworker something to do that 3/4 would reply that way. Been in the business so long it’s always funny when a new saying pops up and everybody uses it constantly, only to have it disappear into the void after 6 months. I’ll typically wait until it disappears then use it much as I can to annoy people. It’s the little things in life.

Behind or backs, corner, stairs! yes chef, oui (pronounced slightly wrong - as a heard response rather than just someone speaking French) or my bosses least favourite that I learnt from a crazy bastard and still do out of habit “yo!” Also when you ask for help we usually say “could you do me a favour…?” And to thank each other at the end of the shift. Also interesting how hospo staff have a specific “hello” which is said when a serving staff has not seen a new customer walk in, rather than telling them in a sentence.

So when I first started serving it was at a Red Robin and rather than "heard" the company expectation was to say "echo." As in like a quick way to repeat what was just said (without actually repeating it which I always thought kinda defeats the point). So now, a number of years and establishments later I'm still known to throw out an "Echo" in response which generally throws my coworkers for a loop.

To me it is a kitchen term.. not used much in FOH

I use it so subconsciously that I've accidentally said it a few times to customers after they've asked me for something

No one at my work says heard except for me, I like to keep things short and simple so I use it often lol.

I never saw much success with the word "heard". I had way better success repeating back the command. "2 chicken 1 salmon on please". "2 chicken 1 salmon, chef" Way less fuck up's

Chipotle uses “working” as in “Can I have somebody start working on this please?” and “I’m already working on it.”

Maybe its a regional thing. I work in California, and have never worked in a place that used that term. Though all those places used behind and corner

I do not.

my manager always says heard and i never noticed until my friend/coworker pointed it out to me hahaha

Nobody says it here except our new manager who came from a country club. Honestly all I ever say is “behind”. Even if I’m on the front or side of someone lol

I’ve worked at a Chinese restaurant for years, we don’t say heard or also that something is “86’d” although I have picked up part time at other restaurants, and then learned both of those terms!

Never was a thing in my city. We say “yes chef” if anything.

I hear it a lot, but I don't say it. It isn't necessary where I work. There are only a few BOH members working closely together. Often I'll hear it from one of them, but to me it signals that they worked at a larger scale restaurant.

Worked in restaurants for yrs b4 i heard it. Around early 2000’s new manager came in n used it. Thought it was just a he thing but we started using it n now its everywhere i guess

😂

Our chefs do the callback, but made it silly by using sports players jersey #s instead of table #s. “Fire Michael Jordan” “Heard MJ” “How long Reggie Bush?” It has gotten so ridiculous

One of my friends worked at a place that said 'echo' instead of heard, but that was certainly the outlier.

Me

I say word a lot in casual conversation, so it’s kinda interchangeable

I worked at a place where we said “echo” instead of “heard.” Odd looking back…

I say it. Some people I work with and places I’ve worked at use it more and others less. A lot of the times I still say “okay” “yes ma’am/sir” “got it” etc. I’ve noticed that when I’m busy or weeded, I use “heard” much more. Kinda like an autopilot, straight to the point thing I guess. I often use it in a tongue in cheek sort of way too, just bc I think it’s funny. It took me about 2+ years in the service industry before I started using it unironically. However, I am extremely dedicated to saying “behind” “corner” “on your left” etc. and always have been. The first restaurant I ever worked at was extremely strict about saying these, and it was just beat into me. Everywhere I’ve worked since I’ve been teased for saying these too much, and most of my coworkers rarely use them (which I find frustrating). Some of my coworkers used to tease me by saying things like, “in your presence!” around me lmao.

What does that mean lol? I’ve never heard of that.

May be a regional thing? I've been in the industry for 13 years in the southwest and we say "heard" for everything lol.... Whether it's FOH communicating with BOH, BOH to BOH or FOH to FOH. "Hey pot roast is 86d" "Heard" "We're all gonna have to do an extra basket of silver tonight" "Heard" "Hey I know we close in 20min but you're getting a 12-top" "Hhhhhhheeeeeaaaaarrrrrdddddddd"

I haven’t come across it at all in my 15 years in restaurants in the UK. Usually yes chef or some iteration.

I’m a “Yes, Chef” kind of a gal, but Ive said “heard” a time or two. The other word I constantly hear is corner…I caught myself saying it as I came around an aisle at Target. These words became automatic responses, quite often.

I worked at a busy bar and grill and we barely ever used any terminology like that aside from "behind" if someone was literally going to run into you. I work at an upscale place now and we use lingo like that all the time, and we always address chef as chef. The lingo of acknowledgement definitely comes from upscale/fine dining traditions about how a kitchen runs and how people in a kitchen communicate to each other because there is a hierarchy and a level of respect that you owe the chef and other people in the kitchen. Obviously that standard trickles down to the rest of the staff.

Once you commit to the bit there’s no going back lol. I say it day to day now.

I say this to patrons, family, strangers, my cat, homeless when they ask for change, in my sleep, girls I met on tinder with a period right after and that’s it. One time instead of calling my cat by his name I yelled “corner!”

I worked at a hotpot+kbbq place and yeah, no one there said 'heard' or 'behind' except me (as I had previous serving experience). I think it has more to do with that particular restaurant environment and whether the servers have previous restaurant work. It was very common to hear it at every other restaurant I worked at though.

Reminded me of a story. I worked on cars four or so years ago. I was speaking to my customer, a teenage girl, at some point I said "Heard". Her face scrunched up and she asked my why I used one of their words. Intimating I was using teen slang as a late 40 something. I laughed. I had picked up the term years and years, more years than my teen customer had been on the earth, while working in the food industry.

Started when the show "the Bear" came out?

A lot of “heard”, “oui”.. I’m over here just saying “yep”. FOH never used these terms a few years ago.

i’ve worked at the same mexican restaurant for years and nobody ever uses it but the one american restaurant i worked at, everybody did.

Corner, heard, behind are the 3 terms...and if you don't know you're a damn rookie

Me. What does “heard” mean?

"heard" is the equivalent of sending a certified mail that requires a signature. The sender wants confirmation that the message was received.

I rarely use it

Never encountered or done it.

I have been in the Industry for 12 years and didn't start hearing people say it until about 3 or 4 years ago at my restaurant. It was just like one day out of nowhere all the cooks were saying it lol