short-order cook
Diner line chef
A short-order cook prepares food quickly in a restaurant, typically working a grill or griddle and handling multiple orders simultaneously.
The term comes from short order—food that can be made fast, like burgers, eggs, and sandwiches.
Short-order cooks work in diners, cafeterias, and casual eateries where speed matters more than elaborate technique: He worked as a short-order cook at a truck stop for years.
- greasy spoonInexpensive casual restaurant
- griddleFlat metal cooking surface
- dinerCasual American eatery
- spatulaFlat-bladed kitchen tool
- hashChopped mixture, cooked together
hash browns · eggs · over easy · bacon · grill · fry · waitress · ticket · counter · breakfast · lunch · blue plate special · rush · lunch rush · apron · grease · burgers · pancakes
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- diner staffwaiter, waitress, server, busboy, busser
- dinersdiner, diner booth, counter stool, counter seating, booth
short-order cookexecutive chef
Senior kitchen authority
master chef · chef de cuisine · cordon bleu chef · gourmet chef · celebrity chef
short, shorter, shortest, shorten, shortened, shortening, shortly, shortness, shorts