Flying Food

B1 – Intermediate

In order to attract new customers, entrepreneurs should know how to make their clients interested in what they have to offer. They can invest in a really amazing location, in hardworking staff, or even in state-of-the-art equipment just like in a restaurant in Singapore.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/witn/ep-150211

 Discussion Questions:

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
2. Have you been to a similar establishment?
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.

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45 replies on “Flying Food”

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1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I think it’s an interesting and funny restaurant. But I like more the human touch.
2. Have you been to a similar establishment?
No, I have not been. I’ve only been to restaurants where the staff is behind the bar, and I had to go to pick up my food.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
I wouldn’t care. Especially because I think it’s an original proposal.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
I don’t like fancy restaurants. I am very basic for the food and I don’t like to experiment with it. However, I went to a restaurant that was inside an aquarium in Valencia. We ate with fish everywhere.

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I am very basic for the food and I don’t like to experiment with it.

I am very basic for the when it comes to food and I don’t like to experimenting with it so much.

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1 . What do you think of this restaurant?
I think that is a great idea to solve a staff lack with technology.

2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I have no been eating in a similar establishment, but I have seen robots serving food in a chinese restaurant. It was really curious.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
Well, like a new experience I think so, I would like to be served by a drone, but in a regular way I would like to be served with a human touch.
3. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had?
My exciting restaurant experience was in dinner in restaurant with a lake with ducks and an orchestra playing for the diners. It has nothing to do with drones or similar.

My exciting restaurant experience was a dinner in a restaurant with a lake with ducks and an orchestra playing for the diners. It has nothing to do with drones or similar.

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I think that is a great idea to solve a staff lack with technology.

I think that this technology is a great idea to solve the problem with lack of staff in some restaurants.

Until your next entries!

What do you think of this restaurant?

This kind of restaurant is not focused to all types of people. Only a few people want to be serverd by a drone instead of a human waiter.

Have you been in a similar establishment?

No I never have been.

Would you like to be served by a “drone”?

Yes, but only one time to live the experience. Normally I prefer the human touch.

Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.

In my last travel to Disneyland Paris, I reserved a table in the Restaurant of Caribean Pirates Atraction. The atmosphere and the food were really amazing.

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In my last travel to Disneyland Paris, I reserved a table in the Restaurant of Caribean Pirates Atraction.

In my last travel to Disneyland Paris, I reserved a table at the restaurant of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

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1. What do you think of this restaurant?
It ’s a great idea! Lack of staff make the people look for alternatives to solution problems.

2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I never was in a similar establishment. But could be a fantastic experience.

3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
Yes, I would like to try this type of restaurant.
Probably not will be the best, because I value a lot the job of waiters, but could be a great experience.

4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
For me, all meals near the sea are exciting.
I remember one dinner in a restaurant in Lanzarote. The place was really beautiful, I could see the beach at my feet and smell the sea. Food was tasty. I wouldn’t mind repeat!

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I wouldn’t mind repeat!

I wouldn’t mind repeating this experience.

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1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I think the restaurant is on a vanguard technically, but i prefer the personal care.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No. I know places with similar technology, but i havent gone.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
I haven’t thought about it, but i think it can be fun to be served a paella.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
In Valencia a ate a paella over the sea in a nice restaurant. It was too tasty and a nice experience.

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I think the restaurant is on a vanguard technically, but i prefer the personal care.

I think the restaurant is on a vanguard technically, but I prefer the personal care given by humans.

No. I know places with similar technology, but i havent gone.

No, but I know places with similar technology. However, I haven’t gone to any of them.

I haven’t thought about it, but i think it can be fun to be served a paella.

I haven’t thought about it, but I think it can be fun to be served a paella by a drone.

Keep improving your skills by continuing with this writing exercise.

1. I personally prefer restaurants where people serve me and have contact with people.
2. I have never been in a similar restaurant.
3. He does not prefer personal treatment to that of a drone.
4. In Eurodisney I was in some restaurants where there are incredible shows while you are eating

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I personally prefer restaurants where people serve me and have contact with people.

I personally prefer restaurants where people serve me and I can have interactions with other people.

Keep going with this exercise. Until your next one!

1. The use of drones can be an attraction for customers, but many people prefer the personalized and pleasant treatment that only a physical person can give.
2. I have never been in this type of establishment. The closest thing I’ve experienced is at the airport where some airlines have replaced check-in employees with machines and you have to do the check-in yourself. There was no one to explain how to use them and several tapes failed and they had to call staff to do it themselves.
3. Going on occasion to a restaurant where a drone serves me would not mind, but I prefer the human treatment.
4. Once I went to a restaurant blindly. They would put a mask on you and turn off all the lights so that all your senses would focus on the taste and texture of the food. It was a lot of fun and interesting.

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The use of drones can be an attraction for customers, but many people prefer the personalized and pleasant treatment that only a physical person can give.

The use of drones can be an attraction for customers, but many people prefer the personalized and pleasant treatment that only an actual person can give.

I have never been in this type of establishment.

I have never been to this type of establishment.

Keep at it! Until your next entries!

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I know that today the restaurateurs have important problems to hire waiters. In this context, i can understand why the owner of a restaurant consider using drones to keep working the business.
As a diner, i dont want to have a lot of drones fliyng over my head, making noise and with the risks that using drones can bring to the customers.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
I’ve never been in a restaurant like this one.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
Absolutely not. I prefer the human touch of a good professional.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
Now i’m remebering a restaurant that is at the top of a hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The restaurant is in continous movement and with this movement you can see the entire city because it makes a 360 degrees turn in an hour.

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As a diner, i dont want to have a lot of drones fliyng over my head, making noise and with the risks that using drones can bring to the customers.

As a diner, I don’t want to have a lot of drones flying over my head, making too much noise, and with all the risks that using drones can bring to the customers.

Enjoy practicing your writing skills through this exercise!

What can I say about food serve by drones? It’s seams crazy for me. Drones mainteance is hard, and expensive, usually is not something that you can do by yourself, at least if you are a restaurator.

It’s crystal clare that in today’s world you need to do different. With the expansion of internet one pearson can see a lot of strange things even whitout leaving the bathroom. Probably because of this we need restaurants like the one in the article. People get bored about the same day by routine.

In fact, thematics restaurants, hotels, establishments likewise, are far from a brand new thing. Who could forgotten those “American restaurants” from the 90’s? I remember my natal city, Alicante, had plenty of them.

Is craziest one “American restaurant” than the one of the article? Maybe a bit, just because the risk, but in the end, we’re living in the age of technology, in the beginnin of the IA. At the time, in the future, quite sure, you would see food cocked and served by IA’s.

Things like abouve make people think, it worth the price? Do we really need those stuffs?
The answer is blowing in the wind, while one people likes this, and pay for, thematic restaurants will be around us.

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Maybe a bit, just because the risk, but in the end, we’re living in the age of technology, in the beginnin of the IA. At the time, in the future, quite sure, you would see food cocked and served by IA’s.

Maybe a bit. Just because of the risk. But then again, we’re living in the age of technology – in the beginning of the AI. At the time, In the future, I’m quite sure, we would see food cooked and served by AIs.

Here’s to more future entries from you! Happy writing!

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I think that’s is an innovation way and very cool to serve the food in restaurants, but can be a little dangerous for clients in case of damage.

2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, but one time I ate in a japan restaurant and the bowls arrives at my table by an automatic tape.

3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
In my personal opinion a human waiter is better than drone waiter because he gives me more confidence on service.

4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
In Málaga (Spain) exists a restaurant where de waiters shout the names of the dishes and you must call him to they bring it to you at the moment, without menu card, you only sit in the table, wait and when you hear anything that you like it call the respective waiter. It’s very cool because you hear the waiters all time and the language of the andalusians is very funny.

It is pleasure to have you on the PE blog! We hope this page serves as a venue for you to express yourself better through writing! Interesting restaurant in Malaga, by the way!

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In Málaga (Spain) exists a restaurant where de waiters shout the names of the dishes and you must call him to they bring it to you at the moment, without menu card, you only sit in the table, wait and when you hear anything that you like it call the respective waiter.

In Málaga (Spain) a restaurant exists where the waiters shout the names of the dishes and you must call him to they bring it to you at that moment. They don’t have a menu card, you only sit at your table, wait, and when you hear anything that you like, it call the respective waiter.

Cheers to your next entries!

For me, food is too important to leave it in the hands of machines. Receiving food is an act of trust because your physical integrity depends on that food (for example, if you receive spoiled food). In that sense, I trust people more than machines. So, I don´t like restaurants where machines serve the food.

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Receiving food is an act of trust because your physical integrity depends on that food (for example, if you receive spoiled food).

Receiving food is an act of all about giving your trust to the person who prepared it for you because your physical seeing the one who made your food gives it some kind of integrity, for example, you can be sure that you won’t be served spoiled food depends on that food (for example, if you receive spoiled food).

Revised version:

Receiving food is all about giving your trust to the person who prepared it for you because seeing the one who made your food gives it some kind of integrity, for example, you can be sure that you won’t be served spoiled food.

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1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I understand the restauranteurs to try new technolgies but i think isn’t the best way to serve food.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I have never seen a waiter drone in a restaurant.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
I would not feel too much confortable with a dron flying over my head in a restaurant.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
I like the restaurants with tasting menus.

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Please see how you can revise this sentence:

I understand the restauranteurs to try new technolgies but i think isn’t the best way to serve food.

I understand that restaurateurs would want to try new technologies but I think this isn’t the best way to serve food.

Thanks for sharing your answers!

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
In my opinion, it is not a good idea. I like to speak with the waiters, the chef,…
2.Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I have never been in a restaurant like this.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
No, I don´t know if it´s a good idea. I think we loose the human touch.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you´ve had.
I rarely go out to eat.

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Just take a look this minor corrections in the following sentences:

No, I have never been in a restaurant like this. > No, I have never been to a restaurant like this.

I think we loose the human touch. > I think we lose the human touch with this way of dining out.

Cheers to more entries from you!

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
Regarding on this It is the first time I saw an article like this. One one hand I think it is a good idea for the restaurateurs because of personal saving. On the othed hand i think diners loss the waiter’s opinion about the menu.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No , I haven’t been in a similar establishment, maybe the most similar is a free buffet.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
No , I wouldn’t like to be served by a drone because before ordering any meals i would like to request some opinion about them.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
The most exciting restaurant experience I ‘ve had it was when I went to Brasilian’s restaurant where waiter served you a whole kind of meat and you can eat everything you want.

It’s good to have you pitch in to the discussion on this topic about flying food. Thank you so much.

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On the othed hand i think diners loss the waiter’s opinion about the menu.

On the other hand, I think diners lose the waiter’s opinion about the menu.

Hope to hear from you more in the future.

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
For me is not a good idea, because I like much to speak with a lot of people, and the waiters, the chef, etc, How Can I speak with a Drone?
2. Have you been to a similar establishment?
No, and I think that I wouldn’t like to visit one, in Singapore the people are very small, and Europe or USA, the people is very tall, I think this is a HEAD problem
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
No, it’s similar what a fast-food restaurant, you choose your options in a computer, they serve you in tray, and you will walk to your table and after dinner you can take the trash in the special space.
Where is the difference?
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
In a super hotel in Rivera Maya, in Mexico, but wasn’t Mexican food, was a Japanese Food, was a Show Cooking, with the knives, the fire, the sake….was amazing.

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For me is not a good idea, because I like much to speak with a lot of people, and the waiters, the chef, etc,

For me, it is not a good idea because I like speaking with a lot of people, the waiters, the chef, etc. very much.

Keep practicing your writing skills through this exercise.

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I don’t like this type of restaurant. If I go to an establishment I like to be served by a waiter, who can give me his opinion about the menu, can advise me if the dish it’s hot or something like this.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I’ve never been in a restaurant like this and, by the moment, i hope not to go.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
I don’t know if it’s a good idea to be served by drones. First of all, the drone can crash with all the food over the diners, with the problems that causes for the restaurateurs. You loose the human touch with this kind of experience.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
The most exciting restaurant I’ve been was a restaurant over the sea, where you could eat seafood while your feet were in the water. It’s was so funny!

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If I go to an establishment I like to be served by a waiter, who can give me his opinion about the menu, can advise me if the dish it’s hot or something like this.

When I go to an establishment, I like to be served by a waiter, who can give me his opinion about the menu and can advise me if the dish is hot or something like this.

Until your next entries!

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I think it is very modern and it seems to me that with covid it could be an option for less contact, but I think that one of the best things about restaurants is the people and the human touch so I wouldn’t change people for drones.

2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I haven`t been in a similar establishment. The most similar restaurant that I’ve been to is an Asian buffet, where the dishes are passed in front of the customers and everyone chooses the one they like without having to ask the waiter for it.

3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
No, I’d rather have someone to talk to

4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
In a Brazilian restaurant, where the waiter comes by with his typical dish called rodizio, it’s like a buffet, and they cut the meat that you ask for.

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I think it is very modern and it seems to me that with covid it could be an option for less contact, but I think that one of the best things about restaurants is the people and the human touch so I wouldn’t change people for drones.

I think it is very modern and it seems to me that with Covid-19, it could be a better option for less contact, but I think that one of the best things about restaurants is the people and the human touch so I wouldn’t exchange people for drones.

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
I think that the idea to use drones intead of tradicional waiters could be something curious for the diners. Nowadays, with the pandemy, could be a really good competitive advantage. However, I am not sure that this fact could be strong enough to attract customers long-term.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I haven`t been in a similar restaurant. I know there are Asian restaurants where the diners can choose and take the plates from a conveyer belt, but I have never been in any of them.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
I would like because it is a new experience. Nevertheless, I think it could be dangerous and other people could prefer something more security and traditional. One of the best things of a restaurants is feel well attended and I think it is so difficult to replace the human touch with technology.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
I live in Málaga and there is a “Chiringuito” where the waiters walking aroud the diners with one type of plate and singing the name of this plate. The customers can raise their hands and the waiter leaves the plate in their table. The tourists love this place.

Just be a little mindful about your spelling and word choice. Otherwise, good work answering this lesson’s discussion questions!

I think that the idea to use drones intead of tradicional waiters could be something curious for the diners. Nowadays, with the pandemy, could be a really good competitive advantage. However, I am not sure that this fact could be strong enough to attract customers long-term.

I think that the idea to use drones instead of traditional waiters could be something curious for the diners. Nowadays, with the pandemic, it could be a really good competitive advantage. However, I am not sure that this novelty business idea could be sustainable enough to attract customers long-term.

Looking forward to your next entries!

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
It is a good marketing strategy to get attention.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, I’ve never been.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
When I go to eat at a restaurant, I look at the quality of the food and the response times. I don’t care how the food gets to the table.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
I am curious about Japanese restaurants where you see how they prepare food with acrobatics.

Indeed. It’s a good way to attract customers. Thanks for your answers. Well done. There is really not much to correct. Keep up the good work then. Until your next entries. Cheers!

Discussion Questions:

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
In my opinion, this type of restaurants are very unpersonal, because the people is more natural. In the future more restaurants they will choose this method of serve food.
I prefer human contact it´s more interest.

2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No at this moment no.

3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
No, because i like speak ith the people and a drone no answer my questions.

4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
Two years ago i went a restautant what i don´t see. The name of the restaurat is “Dinner to blind”. In The restaurant the food wasn´t see only taste and smell.
I went with my housband, because this type of dinner was a present fom him.

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
For my this is a bad idea. I think that this drones are very import in other activities but for this activity the customer don’t have a beneficit. The experience of food flyieng over my head is not nice.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No. I go to tradicional restaurant where there is a relationship between customer and waiter.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
No. I don’t would like to be served by a “drone”. I prefere that the waiter served me and if is necessary we comment the food.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
It was in Chinese restaurant with tipycal foot of China. Every people had very hot water and the food has without cook. Every people cooked your food with this water. This is the different experience but the food was very bad.

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
The idea seems quite great. I think it could success but mainly for young people who are used to this new technologies. I think older people prefer standard way of service in a restaurant where human touch is almost as important as the quality of the food.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
I´ve never been in this kind of establishment. I usually go to traditional restaurants, mainly spanish food restaurants where there is quite a bit relationship between clients and waiters.
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
I can say I don´t like to be served by a drone. I enjoy speaking to waiters before ordering to get a good advice about the courses.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
It was not in a typical restaurant, it was in Marraquech, in the main square, full of food street stalls where we could eat many typical dishes cooked and served in front of us and shared with more people at a common table.

1. What do you think of this restaurant?
This restaurant could really work because it’s something new, and people doesn’t only look for food when they go to a restaurant. Nowadays, diners want also some kind of experience, being a japanese cook that is cutting sushi in front of the customers, or drones serving them.
2. Have you been in a similar establishment?
No, i haven’t been in a similar stablishment. The most similar restaurant that i have been is on an asiatic buffet, that the dishes goes over a loading belt (it is similar in a way, because it is unmanned, but it is not as impressive as drones).
3. Would you like to be served by a “drone”?
Yes, i would like to be served by a drone, because it would be a unique experience. But, if it was not something unique, i would prefer the human touch rather than drones. When you go to a restaurant, the human touch can make the difference between a good and a bad restaurant, and a good or extraordinary one.
4. Tell me about an exciting restaurant experience you’ve had.
The most exciting restaurant i have ever had was in a vintage american restaurant, that the waiters and waitress bringed you the dishes on roller skates! It was a thing on 80’s, but nowadays the places that does that are more like “luxury” restaurant and are very uncommon.

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