Ordering at a restaurant in English
How to order a cheeseburger, choose a side, and ask for no onions.
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Key phrases
The lines worth keeping. Read them once before you go out.
Polite way to order a dish
Change the cheeseburger to any dish
Polite: leave out onions
No + ingredient + please; no spice: Not spicy, please.
Water is enough
Want Coke? Say: A Coke, please.
You don't want anything else yet
for now leaves room to add more later
Quick answers
They ask “Are you ready to order”: what to say in English
Say “Can I get the cheeseburger, please?” — polite way to order a dish. Change the cheeseburger to any dish.
You do not want an ingredient: what to say in English
Say “No onions, please.” — polite: leave out onions. No + ingredient + please; no spice: Not spicy, please.
They ask “Anything to drink”: what to say in English
Say “Just water, please.” — water is enough. Want Coke? Say: A Coke, please.
They ask “Anything else”: what to say in English
Say “That's all for now.” — you don't want anything else yet. for now leaves room to add more later.