What does FOH and BOH mean?

2 years ago

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FOHBOH. Split that in half and you have two equal parts to the inner workings of what makes a restaurant run. The “front of house”(FOH) is all aspects of the restaurant forward of the kitchen wall, and, if there’s one, an expo “window.” The “back of house” (BOH) is simply the kitchen.

What does boh mean in restaurant?

back of house

When thinking about restaurant operations, and the great divide that once existed between front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH), the first line of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Ballad of the East and West,” comes to mind: “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”