Restaurant Politeness Training 10

Advanced customer service training for restaurant and bar staff — polished English for every situation.

Vocabulary in context

By this stage of the training, the goal is consistency — the ability to use professional, warm, effective English not just when you're fresh and in a good mood, but at the end of a long Saturday service when everything has gone slightly sideways. This exercise brings together the full range of restaurant customer service English at its most polished: handling the unusual, managing the difficult, and doing it all in a way that makes the guest feel like they're the only person in the room. The scenarios here are the ones that separate the genuinely excellent from the merely good — and the language that goes with them is what this exercise is here to build.

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1. Do you have plant-based milk?
2. Can I leave a tip on the machine?
3. Can I get an extra fork for my girlfriend?
4. Is this vegan?
5. Can I get milk with my coffee?
6. Is that table taken?
7. I ordered sparking water. This is still water.
8. Is this the end of the line?
9. Do I pay here?
10. Is that a loyalty card?
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