Restaurant reservations: Number of guests

💬 [訂位] is the usual Taiwan word for making a restaurant reservation. You can reuse it with other places too, like [訂房] for booking a room.

💬 [我想] often works as a softer way to say what you want, so [我想訂位] sounds more natural than a blunt [我要訂位]. You can swap in another action: [我想改時間] "I'd like to change the time."

💬 [我想 + action] is a very common polite pattern for requests: [我想訂位] , [我想取消]. It often sounds like "I'd like to..." rather than a strong "I want to..."

💬 [位] is the polite counting word for people, so restaurants often ask [幾位] rather than [幾個人]. You can answer the same way: [兩位] , [四位].

💬 [呢] at the end makes the question sound softer and more conversational. Compare [幾位？] with [幾位呢？] — the second feels gentler.

💬 [幾位] is the polite restaurant way to ask "how many people." Use the same [number + 位] pattern to answer: [三位] , [五位].

💬 [請問] is a polite opener before a question, like "may I ask" or "excuse me." You can put it before all kinds of questions: [請問洗手間在哪裡？]

💬 [請問] before a question makes it more polite, and [呢] at the end softens it further. This whole shape is very common in service situations.