いらっしゃいませ、空いているお席へどうぞって英語でなんて言うの？

The term 'welcome' is used as a way to express hospitality and that the guests are welcome to your restaurant/home. "Feel free" is a phrase used to indicate that the person being spoken to has freedom to choose for themselves.

Open by greeting the customer with the word 'welcome', this is a friendly and warm greeting. If you like, you can say 'Welcome to..' and then say the name of the restaurant. To say 'feel free' is to offer people the choice to do as they like without feeling shy or hesitating that it is rude. It is like saying: "Don't be shy!", but is a much more relaxed and friendly way of expressing it.

▪ Welcome, feel free to sit anywhere. Feel free means that the choice is yours. This sentence is saying that you happily receive the customer in the restaurant and that they can sit anywhere. ▪ Welcome, where would you like to sit? This is asking the customer where he/she would like to sit. This is giving the customer the freedom to choose their own table.

All of these sentences can be used to tell someone that they can have any seat they would like to sit at.

Whenever you welcome guests to a place, it is preferable to name the place where you are welcoming them to. Whether you are welcoming the guests at your home, or, as in this case, at your restaurant, it is advisable to name the place you are welcoming them to. If it's at your home, you may say: Welcome to our home. However, in this case, you may say: Welcome to (restaurant's name)! You are free to sit at a table of your choice. or Welcome to (restaurant's name)! You may sit at any table you like. or Welcome to (restaurant's name)! Please take a seat wherever you like.

So nice to be greeted on entering a restaurant and having your choice of any table! The format of: greet + offer is very friendly. "Hi everyone - please feel free to enjoy the buffet!"

When you want to welcome customers and inform them that they may sit at any table of their choice at your restaurant, then you can say it in the following ways: -Hello and welcome! Please take a seat wherever you like. -Welcome! You may sit wherever you please -Welcome. Please sit anywhere you'd like.