It is usual to have salad when an American has his meal. American people eat the salad before the main course. A. nice American thing is the salad bar. In restaurants1salad bars the waiters do not bring you salad. You go to the salad bar and help2, usually eat as 3as you want. You eat the salad while some people cook the main course.
American people know 4to choose from the menu. American menus can look different at first sight, for they use some words which ate strange to most visitors. Here are some points,which5beautiful.
Potatoes most often come to"French fries"or"baked potatoes". If you order a baked potato,the waiter will ask you what you want6it. The choice is butter or sour creams. Very often vegetables do not come with the meal,and you have to7extra for them. American beef is usually good and often beautiful. American salt pot may8a pepper pot. But they are different. The salt pot's holes are bigger. The pepper pot's holes ate black.
You might9that in American restaurants, if you can't finish your meal, you can put the rest in a"doggy bag"and take them home. If you leave some meal, your waiter may ask you if you'd like him10it into a little bag, or you can ask him to do this.