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

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