How to call out orders best for BOH?
Long story short I’m FOH in a small club where 90 covers is a busy night so I will sometimes expo. I want to know how to best call out orders from BOH perspective since I’m not the one cooking the orders. At the place I’m at orders come in sectioned (soups, apps, salads, entrees) and so the entire order comes in for all of the courses and I have to call out it all so I don’t just want to be yelling an essay or using unnecessary filler words. I just want to know what the line wants to hear. Another expo calls out for example calls out apps and then says apps and just goes on but then one of the BOH goes first course second course etc although first course for one table could be apps while for another table it could be salads. Also the servers sometimes fires the apps and soups at the same time.
I’m just an over thinker who wants to do a good job and wants to know how to not make BOH jobs harder when expoing.
Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:27 PM UTC