{"id":11709,"date":"2015-09-22T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11709"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:03:15","slug":"waiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11709","title":{"rendered":"Waiter!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you’re in a restaurant or caf\u00e9, how do you get the attention of a waiter\/waitress? <\/p>\n

This cartoon shows how it can be difficult in France.<\/p>\n

\"Gar\u00e7on!<\/p>\n

The customer in the cartoon first says “Please”, then “Sir\/Mr”, then “Waiter”, then ‘Can I order?’, then a hour later the waiter finally speaks to him and says, “Sir, to stay here you must have something to eat or drink.”<\/p>\n

What’s it like where you are? Are waiting staff in restaurants quick to respond to you, or do they go to great lengths to ignore you? What do you call waiting staff?<\/p>\n

I’ve worked as a waiter and as a barman and know that at busy times it can be difficult to respond to everybody immediately, but I’ve never ignored anyone deliberately.<\/p>\n

Image supplied by Frantastique<\/a>, who can teach you how do you get the attention of a French waiter, and help you to learn French.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you’re in a restaurant or caf\u00e9, how do you get the attention of a waiter\/waitress? This cartoon shows how it can be difficult in France. The customer in the cartoon first says “Please”, then “Sir\/Mr”, then “Waiter”, then ‘Can I order?’, then a hour later the waiter finally speaks to him and says, “Sir, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}