Restaurant reservations Part 2: Specifying any dietary restrictions or special requests.

🇯🇵 [もしもし] is used only on the phone, not for greeting someone face to face. In a reservation call, it's a normal way to open the conversation.

💬 [です] is often translated as "is," but in Japanese it also just makes a statement polite. So [さくらレストランです] is a natural phone answer meaning "This is Sakura Restaurant."

🇯🇵 Businesses in Japan often answer the phone by saying their name plus [です], rather than a simple "hello." If you call a restaurant, hearing this is completely standard.

💬 The ending [〜たいんですが] softens what you want, making it sound less blunt than just [予約をしたいです]. You can reuse it for polite requests: [確認したいんですが] "I'd like to confirm something."

🇯🇵 [かしこまりました] is a very polite service-industry way to say "certainly" or "understood." Staff use it to customers; you normally wouldn't say it back to them.

🇯🇵 This is the kind of extra-polite response you'll hear from restaurant, hotel, and shop staff. It signals professional customer service, not distance or coldness.