Here is a list of the top 170 English vocabulary items for the service industry. This selection of vocabulary is based on the Occupational Handbook provided by the United States Department of Labor.
- Food
- Workers
- Service
- Stores
- Services
- Grocery
- Drinking
- Preparation
- Establishments
- Restaurants
- Training
- Employees
- Items
- Store
- Order
- Cooks
- Customers
- Serving
- Prepare
- Chefs
- Sales
- Cashiers
- Clerks
- Orders
- Restaurant
- Stock
- Offer
- Dining
- Hours
- Inventory
- Waiters
- Waitresses
- Eating
- Section
- Kitchen
- Menu
- Convenience
- Prepared
- Provide
- Beverages
- Fillers
- Foods
- Sell
- Meat
- Serve
- Variety
- Chains
- Culinary
- Customer
- Line
- Staff
- Alcoholic
- Beverage
- Change
- Dishes
- Hostesses
- Hosts
- Meals
- Products
- Room
- Supermarkets
- Cafeteria
- Cooking
- Counter
- Product
- Retail
- Salads
- Sandwiches
- Assistant
- Attendants
- Clean
- Coffee
- Consumption
- Diners
- Establishment
- Fish
- Local
- Maintain
- Manager
- Marketing
- Office
- Patrons
- Processing
- Selling
- Supervisors
- Bartenders
- Cafeterias
- Cash
- Computer
- Cook
- Department
- Equipment
- Fill
- Health
- Level
- Premises
- Preparing
- Proportion
- Purchase
- Required
- Safety
- Schedules
- Supplies
- Systems
- Tables
- Tasks
- Tips
- Train
- Addition
- Assist
- Baggers
- Bakers
- Chef
- Compared
- Consumer
- Demand
- Hospitality
- Increase
- Kitchens
- Merchandise
- Move
- Moving
- Operation
- Oversee
- Package
- Perform
- Place
- Poultry
- Run
- Specialty
- Supermarket
- Trade
- Area
- Bars
- Benefits
- Butchers
- Checkout
- Cleaning
- Company
- Contact
- Counters
- Courtesy
- Dishwashers
- Entry
- Floor
- Fresh
- Groceries
- Group
- Growth
- Handling
- Hourly
- Ingredients
- Longer
- Manage
- Nonfood
- Nonsupervisory
- Numerous
- Performance
- Prices
- Produce
- Recipes
- Register
- Replacement
- Select
- Selection
- Selections
- Shifts
- Shop
- Smaller
- Snack
- Specialize
