On Wed, 01 May 2013 11:42:15 -0500, George Leppla
> wrote:

> 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.
>

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