"What pain!"
The slide, when full of dupes, is called the board, as in, "The board is
full". Food currently being loaded by a runner or waiter is My hand, as in
"Where's that fucking steak?" Reply: "My hand, Chef!" A hot nut is used
when an expeditor wants something now: "I gotta hot nut for that sole on
table six". This is often for a VIP, or "Very Important Pendejo" or PPX,
or soigneee muthafucka—meaning friend of the owner, or the man
himself. So make sure to move that food out rush or STAT.
Applying what we've learned to a battlefield situation, one might find
oneself saying: "I gotta hot nut for that six-top on seven, Cabrone! It's
been fired for ten fucking minutos, pinche tortuga. What? You don't got
yer meez together, asesino? Get that shit in the window, you seso de
pollo pinche grill man—throw it in the fucking jukebox if you have to.
The rest of the order my hand! And don't forget to give it a wipe and
some mota and a squirt of that red jiz on the way out, I got shit hanging
here and you're falling in the fucking weeds!"
"Working," might come the reply. "I getting buried here. How come the
sauté no getting slammed like me? I take it in the ass all night! How'
bout table ocho? Fire? I can go on eight?" Which might inspire this:
"Eight my hand, baboso! Eight fucking gone! Eight fucking dying en la
ventana waiting for Doogie Howser Motherfucker to pick up! You got
dead dupes back there, idiota—what the fuck are you doing? You are in
the shit! Hey, Rayo! Step in and bail the culero out!"
OTHER BODIES
RUNNERS ARE THE CHEF'S Imperial Guard: half-breeds who dress
like waiters, are paid out of front-of-the-house payroll, but whose
loyalties lie (ideally) with the chef and the kitchen. Usually ex-busboys
or exiled waiters, they must choose sides early, especially as they will be
called upon to perform tasks that might be interpreted as contrary to the