What is the grammar of "用餐曅請隨手整理桌面 座位有限請勿休憩估用"?

Question

In a cafeteria, there is a sign which presumably means something like, "There are a limited number of seats, so please don't sit down with just one person to a table; plan your seating arrangements so that everyone can have a seat." I don't recognize most of the characters, but I managed to use a handwriting program to feed them into Google Translate, and I still don't really know what it is supposed to mean. The actual text is as follows: 用餐畢請隨手整理桌面 座位有限請勿休憩佔用 In particular, I can't figure out what the function of "畢" is. There was no punctuation in the original. I don't know if the division into two lines is supposed to indicate a division into two sentences or not. As my paraphrase of the Google Translate shows, I can't even translate this phrase very precisely. I suppose it can all be considered one sentence, but the "sentence" distinction doesn't really work as it does in English. In English, the "sentence" is a very important distinction; each complete thought is supposed to have a complete sentence. In Chinese, each paragraph seems to be one thought. I know that 限請 is 'please don't' and '請隨手' means 'please make an effort, even though we can't specify in advance what measures you will need to take.' 用餐 might be "when you are eating" or it might be the adjective "dining" in "dining table." I guess 座位有限 is "limited seating" or "a limited number of seats." Can someone provide a grammatical explanation of how these vocabulary words go together? Thanks.

Answer 1

First, those texts are two sentences. one is "用餐畢請隨手整理桌面" and another is "座位有限, 請勿休憩佔用". They didn't put punctuation in the two. It's pretty normal in a sign.

2nd, 畢 means “后/後" (after/when ). 用餐畢: after/when you ate food.

3rd, it is not "限請", but "有限", 座位有限, 請勿休憩佔用 means seats are limited, please don't take up after you ate food.

4th, "請": please.

5th, "隨手": about this word, I think the best way to explain is "after/when you ate all food and are going to leave the cafeteria, you clean the table first and then leave please." It's not "you must clean the table" but "at your convenience".

Answer 2

sentence 1

用餐 Have meal

曅 Finish

請隨手 Please conveniently

整理 clean up

桌面 table

sentence 2

座位 Seat

有限 limit

請勿 Please don't

休憩 take as a resting place

"估" wrong word

"佔用" occupy