Restaurant reservations Part 3: Asking about any ongoing promotions or special menus.

🇹🇼 [你好] is fine and polite in service situations, but in Taiwan staff may also open with [您好], which sounds a bit more courteous. As a customer, [你好] works well with restaurant staff.

💬 [想] often softens what you want, so [我想預訂] sounds more polite than a blunt [我要預訂]. You can reuse it the same way in [我想問一下] or [我想改時間].

💬 [我想 + verb] is a very useful polite pattern for service situations: [我想預訂], [我想取消], [我想確認一下]. It sounds less direct than just saying [我要...].

💬 [一] changes tone before a fourth-tone word, so [一個] is said (yí ge), not (yī ge). You'll hear the same in [一位] and [一天].

🇹🇼 In a restaurant booking, [座位] literally means a seat, but it can refer to the booking spot for your party, not just one chair. Locals also often say [訂位] for making a reservation.