First-come, first-served

The phrase first come, first served (sometimes first-come, first-serve or simply FCFS) indicates the policy of a particular establishment to attend to the requests of customers or clients in the order that they arrived, without other biases or preferences. The phrase is commonly seen with regard to sales orders or in determining restaurant seating.

See also

FIFO - In computer science, queues that operate with this policy are called FIFO (first-in, first-out).

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External links

first come, first served as defined by NIST.

See also: First-come, first-served, Computer science, Customer, FIFO, NIST, Policy, Queue, Restaurant, Sales