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fry cook

American  

noun

  1. a cook who mainly prepares fried foods, as at a lunch counter.


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In early 1980, I was a wannabe poet working as a fry cook in Long Beach ...

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

A number of restaurant chains have adopted the robotic fry cook, including Jack in the Box in San Diego, White Castle in the Midwest and CaliBurger on the West Coast, Bell said.

From Reuters • Oct. 4, 2022

Fans have tapped into the old habits of a fry cook, air-frying anything they get hold of and hoping it works.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

He was working as a fry cook in San Diego, and had no academic background whatsoever.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2020

She dragged the fry cook out from the kitchen to see.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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