Ben Schott

I mean, the fact that everyone knows what 86 means in a restaurant doesn't mean they don't use it or in the weeds or dying in the past.

Some of these terms, I think they still use them because they're incredibly useful and it's just part of the lingua franca of the industry.

I think things like technology is the biggest driver.

So the language of crypto, for example,

you know is is is driving new words but you know the language of nfts remember nfts no one talks about nfts anymore there was a whole little world of non-fungible tokens that was huge and sort of dominated uh the media for six months and like tulip fever it it wilted and died

Yeah, whatever happened to those?

I don't know.

I sincerely hope, I mean, my entire pension's in NFT.

So, you know, you've got to hope something's going to happen to them.

But no, no, exactly.

And so there's a huge churn in technology.

But things like kitchen slang, I mean, it's been around for decades.

So I think it's going nowhere.

It's shorthand.

So when I was researching restaurant slang, there's kind of a universal restaurant slang.

So things like 86-door, all-day, whatever, that everyone uses.

And then lots of basically all...

restaurants have their own slang.

So, for example, there's a restaurant in Manhattan called The Little Owl, and they have a term which is the two-hour wait face, which is when people come up with that reservation and they say, how long for the next table?

And then they're told a couple of hours.