Third Week (Restaurant Practical Class)

On the third week, we still learned the basics of step-by-step serving, but more into the service. If on the second week we learned step-by-step process from welcoming the guest until they finished, on the third week we were more concentrating on the details of each step. Making a conversation with the guest every time we see them free from any activity can be one of the examples of what we did on this week. The other thing that can also be an example is the way we hold each plate and cutleries, the way we pour the water to the glass and so on. The most important thing that we all have to remember is the way we serve the guest every each time has to be from the right side, because it will make us easier to deal with the orders and such things.

            The most interesting part on this week is when we learned how to mix many different kinds of drinks in the bar. We have to be able to differentiate each mixed drink, whether it is cocktail or mocktail. Cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink that contains two or more ingredients with at least one of the ingredients must be spirit or alcoholic. It is originally a mixture of spirits, water, sugar, and bitter. You can add drinks such as fruit juice and soda. Meanwhile mocktail is a non-alcoholic mixed drink which basically a mixture of juice and soda. We made so many kind of drinks on this week; midori mixed with orange juice or pineapple juice, baileys with cola, etc. We also taste each mixed drink to know the unique taste of each cocktail. We also made mocktails, which are just a mixture of juice and soda, for example sprite and orange juice.