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Restaurant English

The document outlines the typical stages of dining at a restaurant, including being seated, ordering starters and main courses, eating the meal, dessert, and paying the bill. It discusses interactions between waiters/waitresses and customers at each stage, such as being seated, taking orders, serving food and drinks, clearing dishes, handling complaints, and paying. The document also includes a menu listing sample appetizers, main dishes, sides, and desserts that may be available at a restaurant.

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Let’s go out to eat in a restaurant!
• Starter/First Course • Appetizer – Soup • Eg tomato soup mushroom soup chicken soup – Prawn cocktail – Avocado salad Menu
Menu • Main course/Entree – – – – – – – Fish Chicken - pork Beef Lamb Lasagne Vegetarian pasta
Menu • Side dishes Accompaniments – – – – – Vegetables Salad - French fries Roast potatoes Garlic bread
Menu • Dessert – – – – – Lemon meringue Chocolate mousse Ice-cream Fruit salad Cheese board
What do you say? • Customers • Waiter • Waitress • Server
Excuse me, where is the restroom? Bathroom/toilet
Arriving at the Restaurant Waiter • Good evening, Sir/Madam. • Table for 2? • Come this way. • Here you are. • Would you like something to drink? Customers • Good evening! • Yes please. • Can we have a menu please? • Two glasses of red wine, please.
Ordering the Food Waiter • Here are your drinks. • Are you ready to order? • Would you like anything else? • Enjoy your drinks. Customer 1 • Yes, I’ll have tomato soup to start. Then fish and chips and salad. Customer 2 • And I’d like prawn cocktail to start. Then roast beef and vegetables. • That’s all thank you.
Serving the Meal Waiter • Here are your starters. Tomato soup for you, Sir. • And prawn cocktail for you Madam. • Enjoy your food. Customer 1 • Thank you. It looks delicious! Customer 2 • Thank you!
Taking away empty plates Waiter • How was the food? • And here are your main courses. • Enjoy your meal! Customers • Great, thank you. • Thank you!
After the Main Course Waiter • How was the food? Customers • Great, thank you. • Delicious! • Would you like dessert and coffee? • Yes, we’ll both have lemon meringue and coffee please.
After the Coffee Waiter • Would you like anything else? (He takes away the dirty dishes) • Here you are. Customers • No, just the bill please. • Thank you. We enjoyed our meal. Keep the change!
Complaints/Problems Waiter • Sorry! • We’ll give you another meal. • The meal will be free of charge. • You must wash the dishes! • You can pay later. Customers • The food is cold! • My glass is dirty! • There’s a fly in my soup! • My meat is raw! • I have no money!
. . . and where do they go after the restaurant, I wonder??