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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.
Yeah 86 doesn't really mean to get rid of something. At least in my time in the restaurant industry I never heard it used that way. It just means that we were out of something.
That was my experience as well. Though we would also refer to a banned customer as "86'd."
Same meaning in my experience. The patron is kicked out. 86'd is the past tense. 'they have been 86’d'
You no longer have any of that product, ingredient, or in this case customer.
"86 the chef special" == get rid of it [from the menu]
No, "86 the chef special" means 'kitchen is out of chef special.
Yes, your task is to remove it from the menu.
But you aren't 86ing it.
You're marking it as 86'd because the quantity is below minimum threshold (usually zero).
str 86;
str itmTo86;
86='get rid of';
info(strFmt('%1 %2',86,itmTo86));
(This won't actually work, since you can't assign ints as variables, but whatever. It was fun)
In a workshop environment I've heard "86 it" to mean "get rid of it." synonymous with "shitcan it."
And that’s the joke behind Agent 86’s number on Get Smart. He’s a bad agent, and someone should have gotten rid of him.
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"...Okay!"
Was this customer a 1930's gangster?
Maybe!
But this is still fairly common shorthand for waiters.
Universal expression in the hospitality industry
We probably would've dragged it at the bar I work at and not serve cherries for the rest of the night lol
Why would 86 mean none?
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.
It's rhyming slang with 'nix' which is Latin, and means to nullify or cancel. Because there layers of meaning hidden in english, Latin, and arabic numbers is not possible to be confusing.
And not to be confused with 'deep 6' which means to destroy, kill orr bury something 6 feet deep.
Instructing kitchen to deep 6 the cherries, the line cooks gonna need a gun and a shovel.
It still means that and is still used in that capacity at restaurants.
Good to know; I only knew that usage from movies and whatnot, had no idea it was still used like that!
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.
That portrayal was so bad that the leading theory is his character was actually an American faking it
Jokes on you, I just got a week supply of cherries.