On 5/1/2013 11:27 AM, Pico Rico wrote:
> yeah, I know. But a griddle is not a flattop, either!
>
> I have found that names don't seem to mean much in the restaurant business -
> anything can be called anything close or "similar".

Back in the day when I worked in a restaurant, the "flattop" was called
a grill... and the guy cooking on it was often called the Grillman.

My favorite name for a piece of equipment in the kitchen was the
"salamander". Wonder how a broiler got that name.

George L