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: V0032 - Restaurant English
: 2009 - 2010
Cleaning the Table after Courses
Meeting 10
Brainstorming
1. As a waiter, when do you take food order?
2. Whay do you say?
3. What are the orders of meal from the start to the
end?
4. How well do you describe food the guests like to
order? What do you say if you don’t know the
answer?
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The steps in clearing the table
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Ask if you could clear the table
Put an empty tray on the tray-stand
Remove the cutlery to the left of his dinner plate
Pick up the plate
Grip the cutlery firmly under your left thumb
Pick up the side plate and unused cutlery
Take all item to the tray on the tray stand
Clear the empty wine glasses from the place setting
Leave the water glasses and any filled wine glasses on
the table
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The steps in clearing the table
10. Scrap food left on the plates onto one plate before
stacking up the dishes on the tray
11. When the tray is full, take it to the clearing station
12. Bring an empty tray back to continue with the clearing
13. Remove bread basket, butter dish, salt and pepper
shaer
14. Give the dessert menu to the guests
15. Leave the table so that guests can read the menu
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Remarks
• Scrap off food from plates as quietly as possible
• Stack dishes with the larget and heaviest on the bottom
• Some restaurant have a separate menu for dessert. In
others, desserts are included in the a la carte menu
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Important phrases
• Clear the table = remove all the dirty and used dishes
and cutlery from the table
• Clearing station = dirty dishe are taken from tables and
left in this area of the restaurant. From her, stewards
take the dishes away to be washed
• ..not directly within the guests’ view..= not be in a
position where guests can see clearly what the waiter is
doing
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Find the word pairs that are the opposites
Heaviest
Dirty
Under
Lightest
Top
Unused
Under
Arrive
Bottom
Over
Smallest
Largest
Firstly
Finally
Leave
Satisfied
Example: firstly >< finally
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Find the synonym of the following phrases:
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Took away all the dirty dishes from
Ones that weigh the most
Keep a strong hold of
Push bits of food from
Placed on top of one another
Go through all the items on
Special area in the restaurant
After everything was cleared
Biggest sized
Changed the position of
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