order up
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- Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
- 2007, Joe Hilley, Night Rain, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 242:
- "Order up." She snatched another order ticket from the pickup window and shouted to the women in the kitchen. "Three pigs on a bun! Two fries!"
- 2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31:
- “Order up!” yelled Carlos from the kitchen.
- 2015, Yahong Zhang, Dennis F. Galletta, Human-computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:
- A number of mechanisms have been devised to notify waitstaff that food is ready in the kitchen, ranging from a cook's shouting “Order up!” to bells, numbered lights on the wall, and, most recently, pagers.
Verb edit
order up (third-person singular simple present orders up, present participle ordering up, simple past and past participle ordered up)
- To summon for military duty.
- His unit was ordered up last Tuesday.
- (transitive) To place an order for (something).
- I ordered up a plate of ribs for us.