How well do you Know Restaurant Lingo?
When food is killed or cremated, it is cooked very well-done. While the window is heated, leaving food there for too long is bad. The window is also the line that separates the servers from the cooks. Which restaurant position is in the “back of the house”? Cooking a hamburger to hockey puck status can be considered killing or cremating it. Where does food that is cooked and ready to go out to the customer sit? What does it mean if food is “dying in the window”? The window is where cooked food sits before being taken by the server to the customer. The “back of the house” is where the kitchen is in a restaurant.
Do you know your front of house positions from back of house ones? Can you tell a bubble dancer from a bev nap, or a dupe from a double? If you know the answers to all these questions, 86 your plans for the next few minutes and see if you can ace this restaurant lingo quiz! Ask anyone you know how they’re doing, and you’re likely to hear, “Busy.” With more demands on our time then ever, people are wearing their busy-ness like a badge of pride, and doing anything it takes to squeeze even more into their already tight schedules.
Grande developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety after the Manchester Arena bombing; she nearly pulled out of her performance in the 2018 broadcast A Very Wicked Halloween due to anxiety. In November 2019, Grande endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders’ second presidential bid. Grande has also said she has been in therapy for over a decade, having first seen a mental health professional shortly after her parents’ divorce. She said that they believe “the basis lies in the idea that if you’re kind to others, good things will happen to you”. Several of her songs, such as “Break Your Heart Right Back”, are supportive of LGBT rights. She has also been labeled “an advocate for a sex-positive attitude”.
Mark Savage of BBC News commented, “Grande is one of pop’s most intriguing and gifted singers. A magnetic performer with unrivalled vocal control”. Grande cited Audrey Hepburn as a major style influence in her early years of fame, but began to find emulating Hepburn’s style “a little boring” as her career has progressed. That year, she abandoned her earlier style and began wearing short skirts and crop tops with knee-high boots in live performances and red carpet events. Grande’s modest look early in her career was described as “age appropriate” in comparison to contemporary artists who grew up in the public eye. She also drew inspiration from actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Ann-Margret, Nancy Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe.
Grande also released a collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Rain on Me”, as the second single from Gaga’s sixth studio album Chromatica. In 2020, Grande became the highest-earning woman in music on Forbes’s 2020 Celebrity 100 list, placing 17th overall with $72 million. The song also debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s fourth number-one single and helping Grande break the record for the most number-one debuts on that chart. At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, she was nominated for nine awards for both “Stuck with U” (with Bieber) and “Rain on Me” (with Gaga). The song won the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Celine Dion and Madonna. With the release of Yours Truly, critics compared Grande to Mariah Carey because of her wide vocal range, sound and musical material. Kotecha told Variety “we were listening to Lauryn Hill about chord changes and why we stick to four chords all the time”. Grande praised Imogen Heap’s “intricate” song structure. Music producer and Grande collaborator Savan Kotecha has stated in multiple interviews that him and Grande were influenced by Lauryn Hill, when creating her fourth album Sweetener, as well as the song “No Tears Left to Cry”. She reflects on her childhood by posting videos of herself singing songs from Dion’s 1997 album Let’s Talk About Love on her social media.
