AUDIOSCRIPTS
The Complete Guide To IELTS
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STUDENT’S BOOK AUDIOSCRIPTS)
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Most things are fairly obvious but sometimes when
it gets busy you have to find things in a hurry and
there’s nobody to ask, so I’m going to show you
where one or two key items are kept.
First, cutlery
– knives, forks, spoons – that kind of
thing. As soon as each table is vacated, when the
diners get up to leave, you should come and clear
the table and relay it. The clean stuff is kept just
inside the kitchen
– OK? – the same place where
the chef leaves the plates of food that are ready to
be served. Remember waiters aren’t allowed to
enter the food preparation area itself, so you
needn’t go any further into the kitchen than that.
But before you can lay the table, you’ll need to put
on fresh table linen: obviously the napkins, but also
the cloth, even if it looks clean, will need changing.
Clean table linen is kept in a cupboard here below
the till, where we deal with the customer’s
payments, so you may have to be patient if
somebody’s waiting for a credit card authorisation
or something.
Now, customers are given menus when they first
enter
the restaurant t
o look at while they’re waiting
at the bar to be shown to their table. All you have to
do is collect these up after you’ve taken the order
and return them to the stand by the front door.
There are always spares there if you need one.
There are real flowers
on each table. These don’t
usually get changed between customers, but if
people want to take them, they can or sometimes
they get damaged. Anyway, if you need new ones,
you can find them in a bucket of water beside the
door that leads into the yard behind the restaurant.
And finally, if there’s a spill or a glass gets knocked
over or you need something to clean up the mess,
there’s a supply of disposable towels next to the
barman’s sink. That’s something you’re sure to be
needing sooner or later. And if anyone actually gets
injured, there is always a first aider on duty
– there’s
a duty list on the wall in my office and there’s a red
box on the wall by the door into the restroom which
you share with the kitchen staff. That’s got all the
necessary stuff in, you know, bandages, plasters
and so on.
So, has anyone got any questions so far?
And now, just a word about complaints. Ideally we
don’t get any, but sometimes things can go wrong,
and sometimes you also get difficult customers.
Anyway, as the waiter you will often be the person
who
gets to hear the complaint first. It’s important
not to respond, however, but to refer the complaint
to the responsible person who will deal with it. As
manager, I like to hear
about all complaints, but I
don’t need to be directly involved in minor ones.
If, for example, customers complain when they first
enter
the restaurant
– perhaps they don’t like their
table, or they’re kept waiting too long – then there’s
no need to call me. This is something the head
waiter will deal with.
When it comes to the food itself, however
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