Pulling Pints in German

You took the job because they said English would be fine.

And mostly it is... until a regular fires off a question you don't understand, the card reader dies mid-rush, or someone needs to know right now whether the soup has nuts in it.

Pulling Pints in German is the phrasebook for exactly that moment. No grammar drills, no vocabulary lists to memorise, just the real sentences you actually say across a bar and a dining room, in the order a shift throws them at you.

Every phrase comes three ways:

• what it means in English,
• the German you'll say,
• and a simple respelling written for an English mouth... no phonetic symbols, no fuss.

Inside you'll find the German for:

• Greeting, seating and taking orders without freezing up
• Beer, wine, whiskey and coffee, including what to recommend
• Food, ingredients and the allergy questions you must get right
• Handling complaints, the card machine dying, and the kitchen falling behind
• Reservations, events, the beer garden, and last orders
• Taking the money, splitting bills and tipping the German way

Plus the things textbooks never tell you: the false-friend traps that catch every English speaker (say "mir ist heiß," never "ich bin heiß," unless you really mean it), the regional words locals actually use, and a back-of-book Panic Sheet for when your mind goes blank on a Friday night.

Whether you're a student earning beer money, a traveller working a season, a new arrival, or an old hand in an Irish pub, this book gets you confident enough to earn the tips... fast.

Schönen Feierabend!