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Serving a Chinese table, without pointing at everything

30 phrases for a full table — greeting, ordering, serving, payment, and the four lines that work when the words run out. In the order a table actually goes.

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FREE First page of the restaurant floor reference sheet: the masthead, the five must-know phrases, and the greeting and ordering sections

What's inside

01
Greeting & seatingWelcome, how many, this way, here's the menu, something to drink.
02
Taking the orderWhat would you like, today's special, spicy, how cooked, anything else.
03
ServingHere's your food, careful it's hot, need anything, more water.
04
PaymentThe total, cash or card, WeChat Pay, separate checks, receipt, takeaway box.
05
No EnglishSlower please, do you speak English, I don't understand, I'll get a translator.
06
Wrapping upThank you for coming, take care, please come again, have a nice day.
07
What they say backTen short answers — one, two, not spicy, cash, card, separate.
08
The numbersHead counts, table numbers, the total — fingers and words together.

Who it's for. Servers, hosts, cashiers and shop staff in the U.S. who get Mandarin-speaking customers and no bilingual colleague on shift. Pinyin on every line, so you can read it out loud without knowing a single character.

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