Vocabulary

At a restaurant
 Types of
restaurants
A restaurant is a place where you can go to eat food.

There are different types of restaurants with specific

dishes to serve.

Here you have the most common ones.

Restaurant
Hotel Restaurant
Fast food Restaurant
Bar / Pub
Coffee shop /
Cafeteria
Food Truck
 Parts

A lot of restaurants have easily

identifiable parts that make our
experience better.
Here you have the most common areas.
The waiting
room
The bar
area
Tables
and
chairs
 Terrace /
Outdoor seating
Kitchen
Restrooms
Locker room
Office
The cashier
 The people
In a restaurant you can find some
people doing different activities here
are the names of the most common
positions.
 The The
bartender or
barista barmaid
The busser The busboy
or security or help
guard waiter(tress)
 The
dishwasher The head
or steward waiter(tress)
The The owner,
restaurateur
host(ess) or manager
 The The
sommelier waiter(tress)

The customer
The cashier or client
The head The station
chef chef

The junior The kitchen

chef porter
 The food
In a restaurant you can find different
dishes or even special food according to
the type of place you are visiting. There
are restaurants for almost every
customer taste.
The 7 meals
BREAKFAST
The first meal of the
BRUNCH
A meal eaten in
ELEVENSES

A snack (for
day. Usually around the late morning, example, biscuits DINNER
6am-9am. instead of and coffee).
Breakfast and The main meal of
Around 11am.
lunch. (informal) the day, eaten
(BrE, informal)
either in the middle
of the day or in the
LUNCH TEA SUPPER evening. Usually
when people say
A meal in the A light afternoon meal of A light or
"dinner", they mean
middle of the sandwiches, cakes etc, informal
an evening meal,
day. Usually with a drink of tea. evening meal.
around 7pm-9pm.
around noon or Around 4pm. It is also Around 6pm-
1pm. sometimes 7pm.
called afternoon
tea (mainly BrE).
 What do you eat?
Meat, poultry, seafood

Fruits, vegetables, grains, cereals

Fats, junk