Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of short order English)
WordNet
adj. of or relating to food that can be prepared quickly; "a short-order cook"
Usage examples of "short-order".
Antonio sleeping in his kitchen, a very passable pastmaster of short-order cookery.
Apparently he doubled as handyman and short-order cook and, while his pale brown eyes moved over me like slugs, he complained whiningly about how much there was to do around the place getting it ready for closing date and constantly being called away from some job to fry eggs for parties of transients.
He worked as water boy on a road construction crew, graduated to tool-room assistant, worked as a short-order cook, roughneck, gandy dancer, shrimp-boat hand, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, swamper in a mine, wheat harvester, supplier of ink and needles to tattoo parlors, partner in a tire repair shop, and inmate in the Jim Hogg County jail for throwing a deputy sheriff out of a bar and grill, through a door that he hadn't observed was closed.
It seems that life in the jungle is rather more like life at a short-order lunch wagon than I had supposed.
I'll settle down in the Presque Isle and short-order a few eggs and let the rest of the world go by.
It was almost four-thirty when he looked over the menu of Roseate Spoon Bill of Fare, a popular short-order restaurant in the rambling shopping center.
He awoke at midday and walked down the road to a cafeteria where the short-order cook fixed him a delicious three-decker western sandwich and coffee.