Business English: Common sentences and spoken language for inviting customers to dinner.

People are iron rice steel, and if they don't eat a meal, they will be hungry, which shows the importance of eating. In modern times, eating has developed into an important way of communication, but one thing is that whether your purpose is to talk about business or date, the ultimate goal is to make the other person happy and leave with satisfaction.

Invite to dinner

Invite foreigners to dinner, generally have the following common sentence patterns:

I wonder if you are free tonight?

I wonder if you are free tonight?

Are you interested in having dinner with me?

Can I invite you to dinner tonight?

What kind of restaurant do you like, Chinese or western?

Do you prefer to go to China restaurant or western restaurant?

If it's all right with you, I'll pick you up at 7 pm.

I'll pick you up at 7 pm, if possible.

Oral catering

Let's talk about some sentences used in restaurants and some words and phrases related to eating. I believe it is not difficult to eat in American restaurants from now on.

1. Do you like eating out?

Do you want to go out for dinner?

I once asked Americans how to go out to eat, and he replied that they only said to eat, go out to eat or eat out, not to eat or have lunch, which means there is no need to specifically talk about Chinese food or dinner. So later, the United States asked me where I had just been. I should say that I had just gone out to eat, not that I had just gone to eat.

Pay more attention to small details and your English will be better.

If you want to emphasize that you are going to have lunch or dinner, you usually just say lunch or dinner. For example, if someone asks you, "Where have you been?" You can say "lunch"

There is a deli over there, do you like it?

There is a deli (restaurant) there. Do you like it?

There are many kinds of restaurants in the United States, restaurant is a general term, and Deli is commonly used: ready-made restaurants that provide sandwiches and salads without cooking, such as SUBWAY, which can be regarded as Deli. In addition, Grill can also be seen everywhere, translated into barbecue restaurants, which mostly serve hot food such as steak and hamburgers.

Deli is short for Deli, but now in America, you will only hear Deli, and seldom hear Deli!

3. What would you like to drink?

What do you like to drink?

The habit of American restaurants is to order a large drink when eating, so the waiter will definitely ask you what you like to drink first. Some people will say, would you like something to drink? Generally, restaurants will provide coke, diet coke, sprite, iced tea, lemonade and so on. If you don't want anything, just say water

It is worth noting that the drinks mentioned in general fast food restaurants refer to soft drinks. But when people talk about drinking, they mostly mean alcoholic drinks. So if someone asks you, "Come on, have a drink with us." He doesn't mean to invite you to drink coke with them, but to invite you to drink with them!

4. Are you ready to order or wait for a while?

Are you ready? Or do you want to wait a little longer?

Usually, after drinks are served, everyone has to spend some time studying the menu. If the waiter sees that you are all about the same, he will come over and ask you, are you ready to order, or will you wait? If you are ready to order, tell her what you want to eat. If you want to study it again, you can tell the waiter to wait for a while or wait for a few minutes. Ask him to wait, and he will say yes. I'll be back. Ok, I'll come back later. )

5. Do you want to pay separately?

Do you want to pay separately

For example, if two couples go out to eat and everyone wants to go Dutch, you can take the initiative to tell the waiter that we want to pay separately. Sometimes they will ask you, do you want to check separately? Or should I pay separately? In this case, there will be two bills. However, some restaurants will charge more service fees, so you'd better ask first. If you want to pay together, simply put, together or a check will do.

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