'take a reservation' is an acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
'Take a reservation' means to accept a booking or advance appointment. For example, "The restaurant is happy to take a reservation for a special occasion."
THERE is one thing that a caller to the reservation desk at Lotus, a restaurant in the meatpacking district, is not going to find on the other end of the line: Someone to take a reservation.
At that, it became one of a number of New York restaurants where finding someone to take a reservation can be enough of an ordeal to make you want to settle for a Whopper.
The official, Masanori Miyahara, said Wednesday in a telephone interview that Japan "would have no choice but to take a reservation" — in effect, to ignore the ban and leave its market open to continued imports — if the species was granted most-endangered species status.
The negotiator, Masanori Miyahara, said in a telephone interview this week that Japan "would have no choice but to take a reservation" — in effect, to ignore the ban and leave its market open to continued imports — if the bluefin tuna were granted most-endangered species status.
He asked me if I wanted to be put on a wait list for the night I had asked about, or if I wanted to take a reservation at an undesirable hour, but with a note made that I should be moved to a more desirable one upon the first cancellation.
We're not advocating wasting precious vacation time waiting long times to be seated for every meal, but once you find a spot that looks hot, do your research to find a better time to come back, or even better, see if they take a reservation.
He even took a reservation for a couple on their honeymoon.
Here are some more suggestions for Meyers, et al. Asking for a credit card number when taking a reservation.
But as tens of thousands of travelers found out last week, airline Web sites, which are quite good at taking a reservation, are not so good — in a crisis — at keeping it.
Other restaurant problems he has pointed out include employees who pour the host the first glass of wine instead of the last or who display an ungrateful attitude while taking a reservation, he said.
Taking a reservation over the phone, for instance, she commented, "When I went to perfuming school in France they said, 'You're never going to sell anything with the name Nunberg!' So when I was eighteen years old they changed my name to Miriam Novalle".
