点儿 to order?

[James Harbour]

So, its the beginning of a new semester next week. And the opening sentence in the book gets me thinking...

Taken from the NPCR book 3 lesson 27:

”几位来点儿什么“

I appreciate that somethings can't be taken to literally but does 点儿 here mean "to order" or "a little" as in 一点儿？
..and come to think of it, is 几位 a kind of an address for a group of people in a restaurant?

 

Many thanks

 

James

[skylee]

The verb here is 來. 點兒 here means "some".

幾位 is the waiter's way to say "you". It sounds more polite than 你們.

[imron]

Note however that 点 when used as a verb can mean to order dishes e.g. 点菜, but as skylee mentioned that is not the usage here. Note that it wouldn't have erhua in that usage either.

[James Harbour]

thanks both of you. really appreciated

[Pedroski]

这属于饭店、茶馆儿、咖啡屋等，服务员用于。

 

几位来点儿什么 = Hi everyone, what would you like?

 

Why don't they say '各位‘？ Apparently, ‘服务员’ was ‘小二’ who were wont to say '几位客官’。