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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • While some may argue 86 is a term about getting rid of something — I first learned of it while working in restaurant industry for years. I’ve never ever ran across its usage outside of hospitality industry. To be sure, I looked it up and the origin is attributed to hospitality.

    It means you are out of something. So if you order a piece of fish for dinner, and the waitstaff return and say to you — sorry, but we are out of that. The waitstaff learned of that by a chef yelling “86 salmon” or it being written on a chalkboard.

    You don’t own a hotel chain, or golf courses with a kitchens, or a friggen resort in the armpit of USA without knowing exactly what this means.

    He is being outright targeted.