Glossary
Hospo words: K
11 terms you'll hear on shift.
- KDS
- Kitchen display system.
- Keeving
- A traditional cider technique that slows fermentation to leave natural sweetness, used in France and the West Country.
- Keg
- Pressurised container for filtered beer.
- Key card
- An encoded card that opens a guest's room door, programmed at reception and timed to expire at checkout.
- Key money
- Another term for a premium, paid to secure a lease.
- Keystone
- The hole in the end of a cask into which the tap is driven.
- Kill it
- Cook a steak well done; an old kitchen phrase.
- Kiosk
- A self-service ordering screen, common in quick service restaurants.
- Knock off
- Finishing a shift and leaving.
- KP
- Kitchen porter, who washes up, cleans and often preps.
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