Essential English for restaurant and food&beverage workers

Learn to receive and seat guests in a restaurant, handle reservations, escort parties to tables, and use common phrases, napkin folding, and seating etiquette for polite service.

Enhance restaurant English by practicing verbs and nouns through vocabulary exercises, including waiter actions like seating, pulling out chairs, showing guests, folding napkins, and solving a noun puzzle.

Practice visual vocabulary and key waiter phrases for receiving and seating guests, including follow me, your waiter will be with you shortly, and is this all right for you.

Practice role play at the restaurant reception to greet guests, check reservations, guide seating, manage wait times, and handle coats with practical phrases for polite service.

Learn restaurant reception skills through role play: greet and acknowledge guests with time-of-day greetings, manage reservations, invite seating, determine party size and section, and handle wait times with polite phrases.

Learn to take a beverage order using Mary's dialogue and the a la carte menu. Practice clearing unused place settings and performing a six-part waiter-guest role-play.

Learn practical waiter and waitress expressions for taking a beverage order, greeting guests, repeating the order to ensure accuracy, and delivering drinks in a restaurant setting.

Learn to take beverage orders confidently with dialogues and menu items like dry sherry and gin and tonic, while practicing service phrases for a la carte dining.

Learn how to respond to guest requests in a restaurant using clear affirmations such as yes, certainly, absolutely, and right away. Practice consistent phrases for reliable service.

This unit teaches verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs for taking a beverage order, with key vocabulary, phrases, and role-play to practice speaking with guests.

Learn to take food orders confidently by using menu vocabulary, describing dishes and ingredients, presenting specials, and offering alternatives while repeating and confirming guest orders.

Practice taking a food order using verbs and phrases used by waiters, including describing dishes, informing about specials, handling run-outs, and repeating the order for confirmation.

Master restaurant vocabulary by learning adjectives and opposites to describe food, then practice waiter and guest dialogues to take a food order, including starters, main courses, and specials.

Learn to place food orders with the kitchen, manage three copies of the order, and use essential restaurant vocabulary, while practicing verbs, nouns, adjectives, and phrasal verbs.

Master verbs for placing food orders with the kitchen, including collect, contain, keep, leave, place, prepare, and replace, through Mary’s restaurant workflow.

Practice unit five action words for restaurant workers by identifying actions like collecting glasses, replacing cutlery, lifting, bringing, preparing, lighting, and reaching across using the present continuous formula.

Master the art of serving wine in a restaurant, from presenting the wine list and choosing house wine by carafe or glass to opening the bottle and pouring.

Learn to serve the first course and refill wine with professional etiquette, practicing the shoulder carry tray technique, order of service, and essential restaurant vocabulary.

Practice restaurant English by matching verbs to phrases and mastering host, starter, and order concepts, plus actions like announce, call out, double check, and indicate, with body parts vocabulary.