Melton Language Services Restaurant English for Business Dinners
Melton Language Services Restaurant English for Business Dinners collects the language a professional needs from arrival to the settling of the bill. Melton Language Services, a business English training provider, groups the phrases by stage: being seated, asking about the menu, stating dietary requirements, ordering drinks, small talk, handling the bill and tipping, and it glosses the colloquial expressions a host is likely to use.
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How It Helps Your Business English
Phrases are grouped by the stage of the meal: arriving and being seated, asking what the chef recommends, stating a dietary requirement, ordering drinks, keeping small talk going, and settling the bill. Separate sections list safe topics and topics to treat with care, explain tipping and splitting, gloss expressions such as going Dutch, and cover the online versions of these events.
Pick the stages you expect to face and learn two phrases for each rather than the whole page at once. The dietary requirement lines and the bill lines are worth knowing word for word, because they come up every time and are awkward to improvise. Treat the colloquial section as listening: these are expressions you will hear from a host rather than say yourself, and recognising them is what matters.
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