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).

External links

• first come, first served as defined by NIST.