Restaurant reservations: Number of guests

🇮🇹 [Buonasera] works both for "good evening" and as a polite hello when you arrive in the evening.

💬 [Vorrei] is softer than a plain [voglio] for requests, like "I'd like..." rather than "I want." You can reuse it with other verbs: [Vorrei chiedere] = "I'd like to ask."

💬 [Vorrei] makes the request polite, so this is a very natural way to ask for something in Italy. You can swap the thing at the end: [Vorrei prenotare una camera.]

💬 [Quante] changes to match a plural noun, so with [persone] you get [quante persone]. The same pattern works in [Quanti adulti?] and [Quanti bambini?]

💬 [Siamo] literally means "we are," but in headcounts Italian often uses it where English says "there are ... of us." The same pattern works in [Siamo in due] and [Siamo in sei].