The Restaurant Game

Play the game in groups of three. Choose one of the restaurants opposite. The aim of the game is to get from the start of the meal to the end using the necessary phrases from your vocabulary.

Exercise 23

Opening a new restaurant

You live in Pitsville, Nevada. Your town does not have any good places to eat. The restaurants are bad. Residents of Pitsville must travel 40 miles to another city to find good food to eat. It is time to change the situation. You and your friends are going to open a new ‘international’ restaurant. You want to do three things:

1. Serve good food at a fair price.

2. Give good service to your customers.

3. Make money for yourself.

Decide and write

1. What time of the day will you open? ________ Close? ________

2. How many seats will be in the restaurant? _________

3. Describe generally the inside and the outside of the restaurant (colour, style and so on): ________________________________________________________________

4. Make a sign to put on the outside of the building: ____________________________

The Dinner Menu of the _______________ restaurant

Soups and salads

1. (dish name) _____________________________ (cost) _______________

(description) ____________________________

2. Chef’s Greek salad _______________________ $2.50 ________________

fresh lettuce, cucumber, oil _________________

3. _______________________________________ _____________________

4. _______________________________________ _____________________

5. _______________________________________ _____________________

Bread

1. _______________________________________ ____________________

2. _______________________________________ ____________________

3. _______________________________________ ____________________