How to serve breakfast in a hotel

At the Camelot we know how to start the day right!  Our waiters and waitresses take your order each morning and quickly rush off to the kitchen where the chefs wait with pan in hand, but what is that squiggle they’re writing?

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How to take a breakfast order

That squiggle on their notepad is what we call the common language of breakfast and is the fastest way we know to make sure your breakfast is the right one!  Read below and work out what your breakfast would be:

•    B, Bacon
•    E, Fried egg
•    PE, Poached egg
•    Wt, White toast
•    Bt, Brown toast
•    ScE, Scrambled eggs
•    Boil, Boiled eggs
•    S, Sausage
•    T, Tomato
•    Fb, Fried Bread
•    Z, Beans (because beanz means Heinz)
•    M, Mushrooms
•    Haddock, Haddock with poached egg
•    FULL, The full English Breakfast!
Anything out of the ordinary just write out in full!

A waiter’s worst nightmare!

Confused yet?  Here is an example of one of our waiter’s worst nightmares after a late night out at one of the local nightclubs.  Your challenge is to see if you can work out what their order is in less than 30 seconds!

1x BTPE(2) on bt
1x FULL – over easy
1x BESTMZ – over hard
1x STM
1x Ham and tomato
1x BTScE on wt
1x HaddockPE(2)
1x Scrambled egg whites on Bt

As you can see, bed and breakfast in Bude is not necessarily straightforward. And making sure you get the correct breakfast requires neat handwriting!