Questions You Might Be Asked at a Restaurant (+ how to answer)

When you travel or live in an English-speaking country, you’re going to deal with servers in restaurants. They speak quickly and expect a quick response. If you don’t understand what they ask you, or if they don’t understand your response, you may get food that you didn’t want! To avoid this, be prepared. Watch this lesson to learn some of the common questions you’ll be asked in a restaurant, as well as how to answer them. We’ll cover questions such as: “How would you like your steak, eggs, or potato done”?, “Tap or draught?”, “Buttered or plain?”, and more. Have you ever been in a situation in an English-speaking country where you didn’t understand what a server was asking you? Let me know in the comments. If this lesson helped you, check out these videos next: Cooking Vocabulary in English: chop, grill, sauté, boil, slice... Learn polite expressions in English - don’t be rude! In this lesson: 00:00 Introduction 01:31 “How would you like your ______?“ 02:02 Steak: rare, medium, well done 03:33 Eggs: fried, scrambled, poached, hard boiled, sunny-side up, over easy, over medium, over well, yolk 05:37 Bacon: crispy, chewy 06:01 Salad Dressing: mixed in, on the side 06:42 Potato: french fried, mashed, baked 07:57 Bread: toasted, buttered, plain 08:46 Chicken: white or dark meat? 09:18 Beer: tap, draft, bottled, pint, half-pint, pitcher 10:09 Water: still, sparkling, pop, soda 11:18 Common questions a server may ask you