This time Sunny insisted that we go to Applebees. So as we sat down I wanted to trying to give her a few tips when communicating with the waiters. It never seems like there's enough time because the servers are so on top of it. I know last time we didn't really get to. So first we started out discussing terms. We talked about the differences from waiter, waiters, waitress, waitresses. I told her how I used to work at a resturant. Then we went on to discuss the tipping procedure. she said that she heard it was custom to tip 10%. I told her that the standard was around 18% and that the 10% deal was only for church. LOL Goodness 10% yeah maybe like 20 years ago.
We talked about how in S. Korea tipping was optional, because the servers get more of a flat rate from the owner. This conversation lead us to discussing more vocabulary such as franchise, corporations, manager, minimum wage, so that I could explain how a servers tips is pretty much how they pay their bills.
I broke down for her scale, I told it was just based on my opinion 10% bad service 15-18% decent to good service, and 20%-25% good to great service.
We then proceeded to review statements to use when ordering, I would like..., Could I please have a side of...
One thing I noticed was that she didnt look at the server much. I told her that it might be percevied as rude and to try to look at the server when ordering. She said that she only turns her head so she can hear better, but she would try.
Throughout the rest of the evening we covered vocabulary and some writing. I showed her samples of her emails to me and how she could rewrite them properly. Next time we are going to work on some writing samples.
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