Restaurant reservations (Advanced): Number of guests

🇯🇵 Use [もしもし] only on the phone, not for face-to-face [hello]. It's the normal way to start a call, even in polite business situations.

💬 This ending is a very common way to ask for something: noun + [をお願いします]. You can swap in other nouns too, like [お水をお願いします。] for asking for water.

💬 Noun + [をお願いします] is a standard polite pattern for requests. You can reuse it with lots of service situations, like [予約をお願いします。] or [お会計をお願いします。]

💬 [名] is a polite counter for people, so [何名様] is a polite way to ask how many guests. In casual situations you'll more often hear [何人] instead.

💬 [でしょうか] softens a question and makes it more polite than plain [ですか]. You'll hear it a lot in customer service, like [お名前は何でしょうか。]

💬 [何名様] is the polite service-industry way to ask number of guests. The ending [でしょうか] makes the question softer and more formal than [ですか].