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What do you call the piece of electronic equipment that shows the number of the order at service at a restaurant?

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I've never been to a restaurant where an order number appears anywhere.
 

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I don't see the relevance of your link.
 

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What words/phrases did you search for in order to get those hits? I notice that the page you linked to was in Arabic. What is the English translation of the Arabic words you searched? You can get a translation from any decent online translation tool.
 

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Ah! The now serving pictures tell me what you were referring to. In many take-out restaurants, they give the customers a number with their order. They display the number when the order is ready. I don't know of a specific name.
 
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Strange equipment, I have never seen anything like that ... It must be a little bit annoying and frustrating if you know the number of your order (n. 26, for example) while the thing on the wall is showing n. 3 is being served right now ...

But as you may have noticed, the websites you mentioned describe the thing as a counter or a turn-on-matic wall sign.
 

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Ah! The now serving pictures tell me what you were referring to. In many take-out restaurants, they give the customers a number with their order. They display the number when the order is ready. I don't know of a specific name.


I think you can see the same thing in many places; for example in banks where you get also an ordinal number and then you wait for it to be displayed on the big LCDs.
 

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Try "electronic queue display."
Out of interest, you may also want to learn "restaurant pager." ;-)
 

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strange boy, everybody has a question. Your thread title is useless.

A better title would have been The piece of electronic equipment.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'
 

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Try "electronic queue display."
Out of interest, you may also want to learn "restaurant pager." ;-)

Restaurant pager! That's it! At Panera Bread they give you this thing that lights up and buzzes when your order is ready. I had never felt the need to know its name.
 
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