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When you have decided upon the story, tell it to your partner. Then listen to that of your partner. Ask each other as many questions as you can to learn further details or clarify some points.

Ex. 5. Entitle the paragraphs beginning with the words:

In the front of the house...

The server introduces...

For example, during...

Ex. 6. Divide the text into other logical parts and entitle each of them.

Ex. 7.Give a summary of the text.

Text 3. AT THE ACADEMY CANTEEN

I spend a lot of time at the Academy, that is why it is necessary to have a snack there. During the break I go to have lunch to our college canteen. It is always full of people at this time.

I go to the service counter and line up. There is self-service at our canteen. Sometimes it takes quite a lot of time to stand in the line and I have to gulp my lunch in five minutes.

The choice of dishes in our canteen is rather rich, the quality of food is good and the prices are reasonable.

To begin with, I usually have some salad - tomato and cucumber salad or mixed salad. For the first course I have soup - fresh cabbage shchee, pea soup or fish soup for a change. For the main course I have meat or chicken dishes, for examplle steak, roust chicken with spaghetti or potatoes. I prefer meat to fish but I eat fish from time to time too. For dessert I usually have fruit juice or a cup of tea with a bun. I take them from the counter, put on my tray and go to the cashier's desk to pay the money. Then I seat at any vacant table.

I am fond of eating in our canteen.

Tasks to the text:

1.Write down an essay about your canteen.

2.Construct a mind map about your canteen.

3.Think of your dialogues, concerning your canteen

4.Study some expressions used in speaking about preferences: to ask about other peoples preferences:

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What would you like,... or...? Which would you prefer,...., or... ? Do/ Would you prefer ... or ...? Would you rather (have tea)?

(I have ordered coffee.) Is that OK with you? (I'll have gin and tonic.) What about you?

to express preferences: I'd prefer... (if possible). I'd rather (have tea)

If it is up to me, I'd have ....

I like ... more / better than

Text 4. TYPES OF MENUS

The menu may be the most important ingredient in the restaurant’s success. The restaurant’s menu must agree with the concept, the menu must exceed the market expectations. The type of menu will depend onthe kind of restaurant deing operated.

There are six main types of menus:

A la carte menus offer items that are individually priced.

Table d’hote menus offer a selection of one or more items for each course at a fixed price. This type of menu is used more frequently in hotels.

Du jour menus list the items of the day.

Tourist menus are used to attract tourists’ attention.

California menus are so named because in some California restaurants guests may order any item on the menu at any time of the day.

Cyclical menus repeat themselves over a period of time.

A menu generally consisits of perhaps six to eight appetizers, two to four soups, a few salads, eight to sixteen entrees and about four to six desserts.

The many considerations in manu planning attest to the complexity of the restaurant business. Cobsiderations include the following:

. Needs and desires of guests;

. Capabilities of cooks;

. Consistency and availability of menu ingredients;

. Price and pricing strategy (cost and profitability);

. Nutritional value;

. Contribution margin;

. Accuracy in menu;

. Menu analysis;

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. Menu design.

Tasks to the text:

Ex1. Find answers to these questions from the text:

1.Why is the menu the most important ingredient in the restaurant’s success?

2.How many main types of menu are there?

3.Wnat tipe of menu is most frequently used in hotels?

4.What is cyclical menu?

5.What do cosiderations include?

Ex2. Produce communicative situatuions, using the following expressions: world market; types of menus; the restaurant’s success; a la carte menus.

Ex.3. Produce a mind map concerning types of menus;

Ex.4. Do a composition, describing your own menu;

A DIALOGUE TO KNOW AND LEARN

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT?

Waiter: Hello, please have a seat.

What would you like to eat?

Ann: I think I’ll have a steak

 

And then for dessert a steak

Waiter:

Would you like it on a bun?

 

Medium? Rare? Perhapse well-done?

 

Potatoes? Some salad? Some cheese?

Ann:

I’d like my steak well-done,

 

Served on a toasted bun.

 

I’d like some ketchup too.

Waiter: I’ll fix it just right for you.

Ann:

With a baked potato, please,

 

Lots of string beans, lots of cheese,

 

And a salad would be nice,

 

And bring me some water with ice.

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PROVERBS FOR SAYING TO MEMORIZE

1.It makes ones’s mouth water.

2.Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

3.One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

4.Appetite comes with eating.

5.A hungry man is an angry man.

6.An apple a day keeps the doctor away

GIVE IT A NAME

1.It is a very cold sweet-tasting creamy food.

2.It is used to flavour food. It is found in the earth and in the sea water.

3.It is something you can drink from. It is made of glass and does not have a handle.

4.It is the liquid that comes from fruit when you squeeze it.

5.It is food that people eat, usually at fixed times during the day.

6.It is food that just enough for one person.

7.It is something you can drink from. It is made of china or clay and has a handle.

Text 5. RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN RESTAURANT SERVICE.

With Russian service the food is cooked in the kitchen, placed onto a serving dish, and beautifully garnished. The dish then is presented to the guests and served individually by lifting the food onto the guest’s plate with a serving spoon and fork.

Russian service can be used at a banquet or a dinner party, where the servers may wear white gloves.

American service.

This is a simplified version of Russian service techniques. The food is prepared and dished into individual plates in the kitchen, carried into the dining room and served to guests. This method of service is more popular because it is quicker and guests receive the food hot and beautifully presented by the chef.

Needs and desires of guests.

The needs and desires of guests are what is important – not what the owner, chef, or manager think. Good servers quickly learn to gauge the guest’s satisfaction

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