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Victor works as a waiter at the restaurant "Russian Style". It is a big restaurant in the centre of the city. The dining room of the restaurant is decorated in Russian style. The restaurant is famous for its dishes of Russian cuisine.
Victor is twenty-five and he already works at this restaurant for three years. He usually comes to work at ten o'clock in the morning. He has a lot of work to do. He dusts his tables and chairs, changes table-cloths on the tables and the flowers in the vases. Then he sets his tables for dinner. He brings cruet-sets, napkins, menu-cards and puts clean covers – plates, glasses, spoons, forks and knives on his tables. All the staff in the dining room – headwaiter, waiters and waitresses – get ready to receive guests.
Lunch begins at one o'clock. The guests come to the restaurant. The headwaiter meets them in the hall, greets them and shows them to their tables. Victor and other waiters serve lunch till five o'clock. They recommend dishes and vines (liquors) to the customers. The customers choose table d'hote or a la carte dishes.
Dinner begins at six and Victor serves the guests till eleven. He recommends them special dishes or specialties of the restaurant. The guests eat, drink and have a good time. They usually leave the restaurant at midnight. Victor counts the money and gives the cash to the cashier, cleans the tables and then he is free to go home. He likes his work because it is interesting.
The service staff
The waiters who work in the dining room create the atmosphere that determines restaurant's popularity, so their work is important to the success of the restaurant. The headwaiter (maitre d'hotel), Victor, and the barman, Bob, come to the restaurant before it opens. Victor is a skilled head- waiter. He has many years of experience in this and other restaurants. The main part of his job is to control and coordinate the work of the staff in the dining room. He also greets the guests when they arrive and shows them to their tables.