How to Use short-order in a Sentence

short-order

adjective

• Martha Atkins was something of a short-order cook for all the kids that came through the house.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
• Rex plays Emmett, the restaurant's short-order cook.
  — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
• His dad was a short-order cook, and his mom cleaned affluent people’s houses.
  — George Skelton, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
• And here at Graceland, the kitchen ran kinda like a short-order restaurant would.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
• His father was a short-order cook; his mother, a housekeeper.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• Play short-order cook, throw swords, pilfer donuts from a dragon’s lair, and more in this raucous party game.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
• My brother Tom was a short-order cook and Terri washed dishes.
  — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2024
• His father rose from dishwasher to short-order cook while his mother cleaned houses.
  — Linh Tat, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
• There are even playsets with diner booths on one side and short-order kitchens on the other, so chefs can serve meals to customers.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
• The restaurant chain gets top marks for such fields as short-order cook and cafeteria attendant.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 June 2026
• The first in his family to go to college, Lauretta paid his way as a short-order cook.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• Guests crowd around the horseshoe-shape counter to watch short-order cooks flip pancakes, crack eggs, and work the sizzling griddle just feet away.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Midwest Living, 31 May 2026
• Hayes, whose father was a short-order cook, channeled his creativity to the plate long before the page or stage.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
• The bakery-café chain gets top ratings for delivery drivers and short-order cooks, among other jobs.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 June 2026
• But in recent years, studios have more often focused on streaming short-order series with eight to 10 episodes.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• But at-least this gives us something to calibrate our beliefs against in relatively short-order, and re-calibrate if the facts change.
  — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• Increasingly, studios focused on streaming short-order series with eight to 10 episodes.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Nelsan Ellis played Tara's cousin Lafayette, the short-order cook who also moonlighted as a medium.
  — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
• According to Hull, short-order cooks are among the hardest to retain in fast food, given how messy and potentially dangerous fry stations can be.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
• Getting start at truck stop in Dew At age 13, Reid became a short-order cook at a truck stop in Dew, working the night shift on weekends.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2025
• The Chicago Bears used short-order cooking, and the Indianapolis Colts had a couple of linemen eat their way through the schedule.
  — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 12 May 2023
• The machine would go on to work alongside short-order cooks at CaliBurger, Jack in the Box, and White Castle.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
• Liza’s hopefulness sounds a lot like her character Tina on The Bear, moving up from the short-order cook to a more vital member of the team in season 2.
  — Diane Farr, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• In the new world order, short-order series hire writers to pen all the scripts over a 10- or 13-week period before physical production begins.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
• Pasadena, California, claims to be its birthplace, with a 16-year-old short-order cook serving the first one more than 100 years ago in a roadside hamburger stand there.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
• The new season features McEntire's tavern co-owner Bobbie on the cutting edge of romance with short-order cook Emmett, played by Linn.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
• Mark Cuban got his start at 12 selling garbage bags door-to-door to pay for basketball shoes, and Jeff Bezos worked the breakfast shift as a short-order cook at McDonald’s in high school.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
• But for true Detroiters, this scene describes the many Coney Island restaurants across the city that true Detroiters have come to know, love and appreciate because of anonymous short-order cooks that take tremendous pride in their craft.
  — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2024
• According to the guild, 40 percent of showrunners, executive producers and co-executive producers on short-order TV series do not have span protection.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
• But does the All Star Special or Texas Bacon Cheesesteak Melt taste the same without the chance of an employee catching a chair mid-air or the symphony of a short-order cook calling out orders?
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025