Example Order

So now we’ve talked about in our restaurant situation how to order food.

We’ve talked about how to make a reservation how to tell the host or hostess how many people are going to sit at your table and how to ask for a menu how to get a wine list how to do all that stuff before you order including getting a suggestion.

Talked about a couple of important words we need to know.

And now we need to actually go through an order it’s actually pretty simple.

When we went through the phrases at the beginning of the class we we talked about a few things that you can use to request something and we’ll see those.

In this example.

So let’s go through this example.

This is me ordering a pizza from a waitress.

OK I guess I’ll have a small garden pizza without onions.

THAT MEANS THERE’S THIS PIZZA.

IT’S CALLED THE GARDEN pizza.

And it has onions but I don’t want the onions all the small garden Pizza the other sizes are probably medium and large of a small garden pizza without onions.

And I’d like extra cheese.

I’d like extra cheese.

I’d like.

Remember.

I’d like add cheese please.

More cheese.

There’s already cheese I want more.

Give me more cheese OK.

Oh could you also please add sun dried tomatoes to half sun dried tomatoes.

Are there sun dried tomatoes.

There tomatoes that sit in the sun.

They’re delicious.

If you haven’t had those on pizza you’ve got to try it.

You don’t get anything else from this course.

Hopefully the recommendation about sun dried tomatoes will be something you try.

I’d like to add sun dried tomatoes 2 1/2.

OK.

So I only want it on this part this part not the whole thing.

And then I’ll have I’ll have a side salad as well a side salad.

That’s a smaller salad.

If it’s just a salad maybe that’s my whole meal.

That’s my main food right my main course side.

So it comes with the pizza.

OK.

Then the waitress says what kind of dressing on the salad.

What kind of dressing on the salad.

Remember I mentioned dressing comes with a salad.

It’s on a salad.

I’ll have thousand island Thousand Island.

And I also don’t want onions on my salad.

So usually a salad will come with red onions maybe I don’t want onions.

In fact I actually like onions and I would never order extra cheese and I would never order a Thousand Island.

I just made this example.

And when I made this example I was I became someone else.

OK I’ll have Thousand Island.

It’s orange.

Thousand Island is orange.

It’s a kind of dressing.

Very popular.

I have Thousand Island.

And I also don’t want onions on my salad.

Sure no problem.

That’s a way to recognize what I said.

That lets me know that she heard what I said.

She’s writing it down on her little book tour no problem.

Anything else.

Whenever you want to know if somebody wants more stuff after they’ve already told you two or three or four or five things.

The best phrase you can use is anything else.

Can I have a Coca-Cola.

Anything else.

Can I have some chocolate.

Sure.

Anything else.

I have a coffee.

OK.

Anything else you can say it Forever Forever.

It’s a pretty polite phrase as well.

It’s just a way to say I’m ready if you want to tell me you want more stuff.

OK.

Sure no problem.

Anything else.

Will that be all means the same thing but it’s a little bit more formal.

Will that be all.

It’s kind of expecting me to say Yes I’m finished.

Anything else is kind of open like I have no idea.

Maybe you do want more.

Right.

So they’re kind of the same in this situation but they feel different.

Will that be all.

Expects me to be finished.

Anything else makes me feel like well when I’ll also have the catch of the day Catch of the day.

Fish and pizza together.

That’s very strange.

OK.

That’s all for now.

Again we use this to let the waiter or waitress know that we might order something else later.

In this case probably dessert we might order dessert later.

So that’s it.

That’s how you order we used some of the phrases we learned at the beginning of class as well as a few of the words we went over.

And it’s pretty simple but if you do it enough times you’ll get the feeling for how many different ways you can put these phrases together.

And I want to show you at least one so that you can you know you can really kind of feel it.

I think that’s an important part of learning a language.

It’s not only about learning grammar and rules and words.

You also have to kind of feel it because language especially using spoken language is very cultural.

It’s really related to the culture.

The culture happens sort of within situations at a restaurant.

So you’ve got to try to figure feel how these are used naturally.

I’m trying to get these across but I hope you can actually try to use them.

So go to go to a restaurant order something in English and try them out try it out play with it.