How to Use short-order in a Sentence

short-order

adjective

• And here at Graceland, the kitchen ran kinda like a short-order restaurant would.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The Chicago Bears used short-order cooking, and the Indianapolis Colts had a couple of linemen eat their way through the schedule.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 12 May 2023
• His father was a short-order cook; his mother, a housekeeper.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The short-order and short-lived shows of today have some feeling like itinerant workers forced to hop from writers room to writers room after four-to-eight weeks.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2023
• 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
• One motto in the baby-led-weaning world is that the parents decide what the child eats—no short-order cooking, hustling to mix pancakes because your toddler rejected his eggs—and the child decides how much.
  — Olaf Blecker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
• The menu consisted of typical short-order items: hamburgers and other sandwiches, French fries, fountain drinks, and ice cream desserts.
  — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rex plays Emmett, the restaurant's short-order cook.
  — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025