Some research revealed a whole world of conjectures about the possible origins of the phenomenon that apparently doesn’t just exist in restaurants. Would the recipient of this email have any idea what I was talking about? And was that even an appropriate use of the word/number? Yesterday, I typed in an email to a colleague that we should probably 86 something from a list, and paused. There was even a button in the computer to do this - hitting 86 let us tell the kitchen or bar staff what to leave off a dish or drink.
Soon I was “86ing” olives from a dirty martini or tomatoes from a salad. The mysterious etymology of "86" » MobyLivesīefore I worked as a server at a steak and seafood restaurant in North Carolina, I had never heard of “86” being used as a verb.
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