VOCABULARY. LEARN THE WORDS. Reception, convention, exhibition, luxurious, coffee shops, snack bars, cuisine, pantry, dining-halls

reception, convention, exhibition, luxurious, coffee shops, snack bars, cuisine, pantry, dining-halls, cocktail lounges, a la carte menus, table d´hôte menus, brunch, refreshments

Assignment 4.1 Read and translate the text:

There are a lot of different eating and drinking places available for visitors at the hotel. They are luxurious restaurants, formal luxury restaurants, informal restaurants, coffee shops, snack bars, fast food restaurants, night clubs and bars. Not all the hotels have this range of catering facilities. The superdeluxe and deluxe hotels have a wide range of restaurants and bars of different types and cuisines. Some of them are open round the clock. All expensive hotels have a round-the-clock room service when food and drinks are served into a guest´s room. Other hotels may have one restaurant, one coffee shop and one bar.

At the head of the food and beverage department is the food and beverage manager. The food and beverage department includes a kitchen, a pantry, dining-halls, bars and cocktail lounges.

The food and beverage department serves individuals and small groups of customers. When it serves individuals it serves a la carte menus. When a restaurant serves groups it provides table d´hôte menus.

A hotel restaurant may prepare all kinds of meals. It may serve light meals such as a continental breakfast and full meals such as full English breakfast, lunch or dinner. It may also serve brunch that means late breakfast or early lunch.

The food and beverage department is in charge of room service too.

The catering department of the hotel deals with preparing and serving big parties. It also supplies food and drinks. It provides special catering personnel.

The catering department comes in when there is a banquet, a reception, a presentation, a convention or an exhibition. It serves refreshments during meetings, between seminars, at presentations. It arranges tea and coffee breaks.

The catering department handles all kinds of banquets: both public and private. Public banquets are company dinners, business receptions, press conferences or fashion shows. Some of the private banquets are wedding receptions, birthday parties or dinner dances. The catering department has got special function rooms with facilities to seat any number of guests and to arrange the tables in any order. Those may be banqueting rooms or banqueting suites.

Assignment 4.2 Answer the following questions:

1. What kinds of eating and drinking places are there at the hotel?

2. Which hotels have a wider range of eating and drinking places?

3. What is a round-the-clock service?

4. Who is at the head of the food and beverage department?

5. What kinds of meals are served at the hotel restaurant?

6. What is brunch?

7. Which department is in charge of catering at the hotel?

8. What kinds of parties does the catering department serve?

9. What are public banquets?

10. What private parties does the catering department provide?

Assignment 4.3 Use the appropriate words from the list:

continental, breakfast, provides, hotels, beverage, round the clock, a pantry, expensive, a la carte, supplies, luxurious restaurants, table d´hôte menus,

1. They are …, formal luxury restaurants, informal restaurants, coffee shops, snack bars, fast food restaurants, nightclubs and bars.

2. Some of them are open … .

3. All … hotels have a round-the-clock room service when food and drinks are served into a guest´s room.

4. Other … may have one restaurant, one coffee shop and one bar.

5. The food and beverage department includes a kitchen, …, dining-halls, bars and cocktail lounges.

6. The food and … department serves individuals and small groups of customers.

7. When it serves individuals it serves … menus.

8. When a restaurant serves groups it provides … .

9. It may serve light meals such as a … breakfast and full meals such as full English …, lunch or dinner.

10. It may also serve brunch that means late breakfast or early lunch.

11. It also … food and drinks.

12. It … special catering personnel.

Assignment 4.4 Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:

1. В гостинице много разнообразных мест для гостей, где можно получить еду и напитки. Это шикарные рестораны, рестораны национальной кухни, обычные рестораны, кофейни, буфеты, бары быстрого обслуживания, ночные клубы и бары. Не все отели имеют такое разнообразие в обслуживании услугами питания.

2. В пятизвездных и четырехзвездных отелях имеется широкий спектр ресторанов и баров различных типов и национальных кухонь.

3. В дорогих отелях имеется круглосуточное обслуживание, когда еда и напитки могут подаваться в номера гостей круглосуточно.

4. Иногда в отеле есть один ресторан, одна кофейня и один бар.

5. Во главе отдела питания и напитков находится менеджер по питанию, который руководит работой кухни, кладовой, обеденных залов, баров и коктейль-баров.

6. Отдел питания имеет дело с обслуживанием больших вечеров. Он также поставляет еду и напитки. Он обеспечивает специальный персонал по питанию.