Talking with cClients / Customers

Typically “client” is used when talking about business-to-business services (eg banking, financial services, advertising agencies, etc.). “Customer” is more generally used when talking about business-to-consumer interactions like restaurants or retail stores, etc.

Some restaurants do refer to their customers as “clientele” or “guests” etc.

I work in a counter -style restaurant where I have direct interactions with the clients and yustomers. Yesterday I found myself a little lost when speaking / talking in English about things they were interesteding to know about me and the work business.¶
They said ,¶
“You guys have so many wines,; there isare thousands of labels, d. Do you know them all?” ¶
I responded, “They are hand -picked by the owner and our sommelier, and we have some tastings from time to time. While ¶
I am not an expert, but II have tasted them all and have some ideia of how most of them, mostly taste to help theout clients / customers.¶
Since I am from Braszil, and we don’t drink wine there, just beer, it was awesome for me having those tastings and developing the knowledge.

In Braszil, wine is a luxury and people don’t see well people thatview people positively who say they know about it, b. But coming here made me see / realize that wine is not that / overly complex and only for rich people as alike everyone therein Brazil thinks so.”