Restaurant reservations: Number of guests

🇹🇼 [你好] is fine and polite in service situations, but in Taiwan staff may also open with [您好] to sound a bit more respectful.

💬 [想要] is a very common way to say you want something or want to do something: [我想要訂位], [我想要一杯水]. In polite service situations, [想] alone is also common and a bit lighter.

💬 In Taiwan, [訂位] is the everyday word for reserving a table at a restaurant. You can swap the place word after [訂]: [訂房] for booking a room.

💬 [幾] asks for a small, countable number, usually before a measure word: [幾位], [幾點], [幾個人]. For larger or less specific amounts, Chinese often uses [多少] instead.

💬 [位] is a polite counting word for people, so restaurants often ask [幾位？] rather than [幾個人？]. You can answer the same way: [兩位], [四位].