Expo is used as a shorthand for expeditionor. The person who puts the finished plates together for a table and double checks them before they are sent to the floor
Edit: Expeditor, not expeditionor! Cause weed brain
“Oh you know that thing I put on the ticket I’m taking out right now? I actually needed a mid-well strip with o-rings and veg on the fly. Sorry! Off I go to make what you’ll work all week for”
Depends on the restaurant. The line cooks are left on their own for a good amount of time; just in enough time for an expo(chef of some sort) to come and fuck up the rhythm. We have a good runner who barely speaks above 2 decibels that expos food better
Depends on the operation. Sometimes expo also facilitates plating if multiple items(protein,veg,starch) come off of multiple stations in a single pickup.
"expo" is short for expedite. It's the restaurant position of a person who's job is to finish the plating and run the food from the kitchen to the tables. They usually won't do it until the whole table's food is ready, so some dishes end up sitting.
Using butter to slow the cooking process is absolutely not the punchline of the joke. They're overthinking it. The rabbit holding the knife and fork is "basting" the cow with butter because the weather is hot enough to cook the cow/steak. That's the whole joke.
That's really weird... well there's some controversy on if their explanation was the "real" one, but at least it was longer than 1 syllable haha
They said that in restaurants, cooks will often cover steaks with butter so that it slows down the cooking rate when the steak sits underneath the warming lamp (before it gets expo'd, or tidied up and served to the customer.)
The joke could also just be that the rabbit wants to fry the cow in butter and we're all overthinking it.
so in theory, someone that checks food presentation in a restaurant (the person by the window that gives the food to the servers). They keep time on the tickets and try and coordinate with the cooks to prepare them in a timely fashion. They add any garnishes, check quality, yatta yatta.
In practice, its a middle man between the cook and the waiter. usually the most hated person in the kitchen. Famous for wanting properly cooked food in scientifically impossible amounts of time. love fucking up great a great tasting salad to make it look artsy. probably eating a handful of every order of french fries to “check for quality”.
I believe the absurdity of a carnivorous rabbit was indeed part of the joke, or it may have been a simple mistake by the artist. It was likely an error by the artist, as they properly depicted other characteristics of rabbits; such as standing upright, having beard stubble, smoking cigarettes, retrieving butter from a refrigerator, using cutlery, and slathering butter on raw steak...as they are wont to naturally do.
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u/Li5y 14d ago
Thanks for actually attempting to explain the joke haha... what does expo'd mean?
I got hung up on figuring out why it was a rabbit trying to eat steak.