Reader-added tags include "Reality is heartless", "I've been there", and "The rest omitted".

The survey says it's all in the cards:

What game shall we play?
• Poker
• Sevens
• Old Maid
• Daihinmin
• Blackjack

And if all goes well, your opponent in the survey ISN'T named D'arby.

If you only have so many menu items, the only people who really "need" the full-length names are the people ordering the food (so they know, roughly, what they're getting). And, unless you have one item that is insanely popular with the others being relatively rare (or you allow for ridiculous levels of order customization a la Starbucks), then information theory itself would suggest that your other, between-employee messages don't need a lot of information to work well.

Iruel said about custom food

Not so long time ago (a year maybe), local pizzeria branch had menu for pizza with just ingredients and customers had to pick desired. Lately they have "sets" of pizzas with predefined ingredients, however customer still can order custom pizza if he knows what cooks have (usually ingredients and ovens in plain sight).
Menu was look like on 1st panel (plastic bars), if not used fancy TV set (some branches of this pizzeria can have 'em)

DeadW@nderer said:
Not so long time ago (a year maybe), local pizzeria branch had menu for pizza with just ingredients and customers had to pick desired. Lately they have "sets" of pizzas with predefined ingredients, however customer still can order custom pizza if he knows what cooks have (usually ingredients and ovens in plain sight).
Menu was look like on 1st panel (plastic bars), if not used fancy TV set (some branches of this pizzeria can have 'em)

That reminds me of WhichWich (and I should have used them instead of Starbucks for the example, honestly), if only because your order is made by selecting the bag corresponding to the type of sandwich you want and then you mark all of the add-ons you want on it.

Reminds me of Yukko ordering the Chicken Bar.