Restaurant Politeness Training 5

Advanced politeness training for restaurant and bar staff — refined English for every customer situation.

Vocabulary in context

The final stage of restaurant politeness training focuses on consistency — the ability to deliver professionally calibrated English across an entire shift, with every table, including the ones at 11pm when the kitchen is closing and you've been on your feet for eight hours. This exercise covers the full range of restaurant scenarios at their most demanding: the late cancellation, the substitution request the kitchen is going to hate, the customer who simply cannot decide, the complaint about something that went wrong in the kitchen. All of it requires the same quality of language — warm, efficient, solution-focused — and this exercise is what makes that consistency possible.

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1. What other flavors do you have?
2. Excuse me, my coffee is cold.
3. I never know what to order.
4. There's a fly in my soup!
5. That was very good!
6. Do all of your desserts contain milk products?
7. How do I pronounce this dish?
8. Can I get a couple more of these appetizers?
9. I have a reservation.
10. I'll have the special, a large Coke, and a coffee.
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