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Workshops/Certificates -- Spanish--Spanish for Restaurant Staff

 

Command Spanish® For Restaurant Staff


This is a comprehensive program designed to provide functional Spanish language skills for restaurant management and staff who supervise Spanish-speaking employees. It also provides Spanish language material for restaurant staff to better assist Spanish-speaking clientele. The program utilizes phonetic
encoding to address the most important Spanish commands, questions, and phrases critical to restaurant management and service.

 

No prior knowledge of Spanish is necessary.

 

Using the special features of Spanish for Restaurant Staff participants will be able to use Spanish to:


        • extend holiday greetings; greet, instruct, and compliment employees
        • explain employment issues
        • direct employees about food safety
        • give emergency directions
        • give commands regarding handling food and preparation, busing tables, and cleaning; seat,

           serve, and attend to Spanish-speaking customers


Instructional methods for this highly interactive program include modeling, intensive drill, choral response, alpha-beta line, learning pairs and triads, Total Physical Response (TPR), role-playing, simulations and situation cards. Professionally designed instructional materials (course manual and CD-ROMs) are also included for the benefit of program participants.

 

Program Topics


Work Specific Language Sections for Spanish for Restaurant Staff includes:

  • Spanish Pronunciation
  • Greetings and Goodbyes
  • Etiquette and Social Niceties
  • Communication Strategies
  • introductions and Self-Identifications
  • Complimenting Employees
  • Holiday Greetings
  • Numbers
  • Hiring and Dismissal
  • Job Orientation
  • Hygiene Issues
  • General Supervisory Phrases
  • Safety/Medical Issues
  • Food Handling Areas
  • “Esto” Commands for the Kitchen
  • Other Kitchen Commands
  • Food Safety
  • Buffet Lines and Serving Lines
  • Busing Tables
  • Cleaning Kitchen
  • Cleaning Floors and Trash
  • Other Cleaning Tasks
  • Maintenance
  • Seating Customers
  • Serving Alcoholic Beverages
  • Waiting Tables
  • Cashiering


Included Appendixes:

  • Restaurant Vocabulary
  • Table Settings
  • Food Items
  • Food Preparation
  • Drinks
  • Months and Days
  • Uniform Vocabulary
  • Signs for the Restaurant

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