A summary of ordering skills

Discussion on ordering food for guests or invited guests! (especially close to real life)

If people who are familiar with each other go out to eat together, they usually order a dish. If no one eats the dish, the person who ordered it must eat it himself as a punishment for ordering bad food. But what if it is a treat or an invitation?

[ actual combat 2: being treated] People who treat guests like to ask them to order food. When they are new here, they are afraid of something bad. If they want something expensive, do they want to have another time? Want something cheap, vinegar and shredded potatoes, it's cheap, and there are all kinds of restaurants, but it's too embarrassing for the host! Then try to order something moderately priced and suitable for everyone present! You can try the following four principles:

1. Know the flavor. Ask the waiter about the special dishes here. You can refer to the suggestions, but you should listen to them selectively, because some waiters will recommend some dishes cooked with expired ingredients, especially those with heavy oil.

2. Know the price. Except for vegetables, it is normal that the general meat food is 1.5 times more expensive than the market price. (Except for special dishes) Dishes marked with the word "seasonal" are advised to be touched less.

3. Be fresh. Vegetables emphasize seasonal freshness, and some unconventional fragrant dishes should pay attention to whether the raw materials are fresh.

4. combination of knowledge. Generally, the whole table should be properly matched, and the combination of vegetarian, light and dry cooking methods should be adopted.

From the psychological analysis of food consumption, if one or two dishes can satisfy people at a meal, people will feel satisfied, and don't think that the whole table will impress you.

[ actual combat 3: entertaining others] When entertaining others, out of courtesy, guests should be allowed to order food. If the guests are willing to order, it will save a lot of trouble. If the guests refuse to order? At this time, you have to use the eight-part essay program with a heavy burden.

first cold dishes and then stir-fry; Large pots of soup and small snacks; Plus a fruit bowl. In addition, pay attention to whether there are any taboos in the sitting room. Since it's your treat, the initiative lies with you. You'd better choose the restaurant you've been to, so as to know fairly well!

if you really don't know what to order, you can look at the dishes on other people's tables and make a rough estimate. Another trick is to call the foreman in, tell her the standard and ask the foreman to help order. The foreman must be familiar with his restaurant, and he can guarantee to taste the characteristics of our restaurant, and the collocation is reasonable. In order to attract repeat customers, the foreman generally does not discount the quality.

there is a saying in the art of war: know yourself and know yourself, and you will be invincible. Since I'm here, I must try some special dishes. If there are special dishes, I must point them out, because restaurants should attract business, and the special dishes are cheap and related to the restaurant's characteristics. Ordering special dishes can achieve the goal of saving money and early adopters.

Ordering principle:

Entering a restaurant corresponding to your identity is half the battle

First, you should know which restaurants are located, and where are the high-end, mid-range and low-end restaurants;

second, first go to the restaurant to touch the more distinctive dishes, tastes and prices;

Third, first evaluate the identity and taste of the person to be invited, choose a suitable restaurant, and important guests must order private rooms;

fourth, if you want to talk about sensitive topics, you must point to private rooms or restaurants far away from the guest's life circle;

fifth, if the customer status is high and you want to save yourself, you'd better bring your own drinks. It's not a little cheaper to buy outside than in a hotel.

Learning to order food:

First, please ask the guests to choose the food first. If the guests humbly order the food, the host doesn't have to be too reluctant;

Second, the ordering process should be quick. Don't order for a long time. Ask the guests whether they like the key dishes and taste dishes, and pay special attention not to order dishes that are too spicy or greasy for their own taste.

Third, the budget should be evaluated before ordering. Generally, there are one or two more main courses than the guests, and a cold dish and a soup are enough. For particularly greasy dishes, you can usually order one, such as pork ribs with salt and pepper, pork ribs with pork ribs and Dongpo meat. If there are more than four main courses, you can consider fish, chicken or duck and meat, and finally you must have a light-flavored dish.

Fourth, to order food, you only need to order one or two special and high-grade dishes, and every dish doesn't need to be expensive;

Fifth, don't order several dishes of the same type at the same time, for example, they are all fish, but the methods are different (I have had a whole fish feast-18 dishes are made with a fish weighing more than 41 kilograms, with different tastes). If it is meat, it is best to distinguish the types and methods; Pay attention to whether the guests have any taboos-whether they eat spicy food, whether they are Muslims, whether they are pregnant, whether they take medicine, whether they are allergic to seafood, etc. If the elderly and children order some dishes that are not strict with their teeth

Sixth, ask the guests what kind of drinks to use after ordering. If you don't want to drink, you can consider some beer or red wine. If you can't use wine at all, you can drive, or you can't drink alcohol because of work arrangements in the afternoon, or simply say that the company doesn't allow wine for lunch, but drinking is not necessarily cheaper than drinking yogurt or juice. Some guests think that juice is unsanitary, so you should carefully confirm the production date and date. 2. Pay attention to the collocation of red wine and dishes, and remember the principle of "red wine with red meat and white wine with white meat". That is to say, if it is seafood, try to drink dry white, and Chinese food such as greasy food, preferably dry red;

the knowledge of ordering wine has gone to a great extent. If you don't order well, your meal will be treated for nothing.

Eighth, if you are visiting a restaurant for the first time, you can ask the waiter to recommend some special dishes, and then choose some home-cooked dishes. It is estimated that the taste is not bad.

ninth, order the staple food at last; Pay attention to the difference between the north and the south. In the north, only pasta is called the staple food.

A restaurant manager said that many guests who come to eat can't order at all. Therefore, when you go into a restaurant to order, you should pay attention to the following points.

1. Don't eat whatever you like. The first consideration in ordering food is not only taste preference, but also dish collocation. A table of food is mainly composed of soup, hot dishes and cold dishes, and the raw materials are nothing more than meat (livestock and poultry), seafood (fish, shrimp and crab) and vegetables. The six elements are indispensable, and they must be arranged and combined reasonably to avoid repetition of the same element. If six people have a meal, they can usually order 3-4 cold dishes, 3-4 stir-fried dishes, add a big dish and a soup, and 1-2 snacks are enough. Dishes should emphasize vegetarian food, shade, dryness and wetness, and a variety of cooking methods, and the raw materials should not be repeated as much as possible. For example, if you choose old duck pot for soup, hot dishes and cold dishes can focus on dishes with fish or vegetables as the main raw materials; If you choose a fish soup, there is no need to order fish or other seafood. Even if you like sweet and sour dishes again and order sweet and sour fish, don't choose pineapple sweet and sour meat ...

2. Don't just pay attention to the special dishes recommended on the menu. Even if you don't know what to order, you can only choose one of the special dishes recommended by the restaurant, and the rest depends on your own taste, otherwise a table will be a series and taste of dishes (such as spicy dishes). From the psychological analysis of food consumption, one or two dishes can leave a good impression on you every time you eat, and you will feel satisfied. Don't expect all the dishes to impress you.

3. Be aware of the price. Fear of slaughter when ordering food is a common psychology of guests. When ordering food, you can master a principle. Except for vegetables, it is normal for chicken, duck and fish dishes to be 1-1.5 times more expensive than those in the market, unless they are special dishes and dishes with very exquisite workmanship, they will kill people if they are more than twice as expensive. Because the hotel's accounting method is to double the gross profit on the cost, and the cost only includes the main materials, auxiliary materials and seasonings (including fuel at most), nothing else can be calculated as the cost. The gross profit of vegetables is allowed to be higher because of the low price. For the menu marked with the word "current price", I advise you not to touch it. The special dish of the day specially launched by the store must be the main point. Specials are generally "loss-making dishes" sold by restaurant owners to attract old customers.

4. Don't listen to the waiter. For the new guests, the general waiter is very happy to provide the ordering guidance. You just need to hear what the specialty of the store is, which dish sells best, and what the taste and price are. For the one recommended by the waiter repeatedly and enthusiastically, it is best to avoid it, and there are often ghosts. For example, a batch of live shrimps that were purchased one or two days ago died out on the third day. If they can't all be sold as vegetables that day, the remaining raw materials will go bad and be thrown away the next day. Some bosses will take the form of special sales promotion and stick them on the "water sign" of the restaurant. When the guests order, the waiters will do their best to "seduce" them. Even when the waiters sell a shrimp dish, they will get a bonus of several yuan from the boss when they turn around.

Take nine dishes and one soup as an example:

Soup is better, because it is the first course, which requires mellow taste and high-grade soup materials;

cold dishes or roasted dishes are better for starters. Generally speaking, it depends on which restaurant is more specialized.

the special dishes on the second plate can be local specialties or the signature dishes of this restaurant;

The three dishes are your special dishes, so be sure to highlight "expensive";

then serve a light dish, don't upstage the expensive dish, but let the mouth change;

another expensive but rare seafood;

almost, have a cheaper braise in soy sauce;

it's time for the fried or stuffy, fill your stomach, and don't be too old to satisfy people;

The special stir-fried dishes and vegetables are the same as above in time, and they are used for delivering meals ...

If you drink, you will lose the fried dishes and the first dish, and the soup will be thicker.

Now that the living standard has improved, it is normal to eat in restaurants. This is just a casual dinner, and there is no special stress. If you are dining in a business enterprise or in a conference, and you happen to be the director of an office or something, then ordering food is very particular. You should not only pay attention to the color, flavor, shape and flowers of the dishes, but also observe the words and deeds, which is not too conspicuous. So tired!

so how can we balance these aspects? Recently, I read an article in this field and found it very valuable for reference, so I extracted it and recommended it to my friends for reference.

Take a look

This is the first thing. Don't order when you open the menu at the restaurant. Of course, you already know the familiar restaurants like the palm of your hand. When dining in a new restaurant, you should:

1. First, take a look at other people's tables and order the same dish. Then this dish must be a feature of this restaurant, and the price/performance ratio will not be bad. You might as well be a little bit better. Looking at other people's tables can also help you intuitively understand the products of dishes, and observing the expressions of diners can also accurately distinguish the quality of dishes. Pick some popular dishes, so that your order success rate will be higher.

2. What are people doing? Are there many diners? If the restaurant is crowded and most of the dishes on the table have not been served, it means that the service speed of this restaurant will not be very fast, then you need to order a little more cold dishes and less steamed and laborious dishes, so as to avoid waiting for a long time. On the contrary, you can order less cold dishes to avoid waste.

identify

1, and identify "words" first. Generally speaking, the waitress will always recommend several dishes to you, so you should identify her intentions. Many restaurants have such an unwritten secret system: before the market opens every day, the kitchen will write a note saying the dishes that need to be promoted today. Most of these dishes are "the quality will be affected if the raw materials are put down again, so they must be sold quickly." The service ladies who sell these dishes are rewarded, so they work extra hard. Therefore, you must not be impressed by the bright smile and sweet voice, and be alert to the bait.

2, distinguish the "type" again. Eating in a restaurant is nothing more than business banquets, family gatherings, drinks with friends and working lunches. Business banquet: naturally, cold dishes, hot dishes, snacks, soup and fruits are served in full sets, but there is no need to pay too much attention to ostentation and extravagance, and moderation is the most scientific. If it is the other kinds, there is no need to be so particular, order less or no cold dishes, and the fastest cooking speed can avoid waiting.

3, and then distinguish the number of people. It's another matter with special significance. If you just want to get together or fill your stomach, four people can order 3 dishes and 1 soup. 5-7 sites, 5 dishes and 1 soup; More than 8 people, according to the number of people MINUS 2 points, should be enough. The above refers to hot dishes, and the cold dishes should be as few as possible. If there are more cold dishes, then the hot dishes can be appropriately reduced by one or two.

avoid

the word "avoid" means to avoid ordering separately with the same eater, which can avoid many embarrassment and is especially suitable for some special dining activities. For example, business banquets, birthday parties, etc., you may wish to order food in advance, which is much more free and more comfortable to refuse the recommendation of the lady. After ordering, you can also calculate the cost first, so as to know fairly well. If it is found that the total price exceeds the standard and is too low, it can also be adjusted immediately.

having a dinner party has its own "routine". In fact, it is the easiest to order a banquet, because it has a routine to follow. The embodiment of grade should not rely on "quantity" but on "quality".

Wedding reception:

A wedding reception usually includes 8 cold dishes, 8-11 hot dishes, 1 soup, 2 snacks and 1 fruits. Most hotels now offer wedding packages. Distinguishing the specifications of the wedding banquet package mainly depends on the three main dishes: shrimp, crab and fish.

If grass shrimp, red crab, mandarin fish or left-handed fish are used, it basically belongs to the mid-range specification.

if you go to a higher level, the shrimp may be replaced by shrimps or medium-sized prawns, crabs with cream crabs, and fish with Duobao fish, which will cost more than 31%.

if it's lobster, eastern star spot or something, it's up to a higher level. Just pay attention to these three main courses when ordering a wedding banquet, and the rest are similar.

Birthday banquet:

Most consumers order their own food, and the routine is similar to a wedding banquet. Just control the grade. If the budget is limited, the best way is to highlight one main course instead of dividing the money evenly among several main courses, so as to make a good impression. In particular, it should be reminded that this kind of family banquet should give more consideration to the elderly and children, order more soft dishes, and order less "each person" dishes that need to be divided after serving to avoid room on the table. Longevity noodles are essential.

Business Banquet:

Business Banquet is actually the most formatted. Here is a basic menu-5 meats, 3 vegetarian dishes, 8 cold dishes, shrimp, crab and fish, 2 poultry dishes, 1 vegetables, 1 bean products, 2 hotel specialties or Kung Fu dishes, and that's all. It is better to have two "per person per" types. If you want to improve the specifications, it is the easiest way to add lobster, shark's fin, bird's nest and abalone according to the specifications!

Ordering principle:

Entering a restaurant corresponding to your identity is half the battle

First, you should know which restaurants are located, and where are the high-end, mid-range and low-end restaurants;

second, first go to the restaurant to touch the more distinctive dishes, tastes and prices;

Third, first evaluate the identity and taste of the person to be invited, choose a suitable restaurant, and important guests must order private rooms;

fourth, if you want to talk about sensitive topics, you must point to private rooms or restaurants far away from the guests' life circle.

knowledge of ordering food:

First, please ask the guests to choose the food first. If the guests humbly order the food, the host need not be too reluctant;

Second, the ordering process should be quick. Don't order for a long time. Ask the guests whether they like the key dishes and taste dishes, and pay special attention not to order dishes that are too spicy or greasy for their own taste.

Third, the budget should be evaluated before ordering. Generally, the main course should be one or two more than the guests, and a cold dish and a soup should be enough. For particularly greasy dishes, it's average.