Transcript Dining Etiquette

Dining Etiquette
By: Cassie Klumpp
How to use a napkin…
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As soon as seated, unfold napkin
Place napkin in lap
Keep napkin until done with meal
Don’t clean silverware or wipe face
NEVER use to wipe your nose
Don’t leave the napkin on the chair
When to start eating…
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Restaurant
Wait until everyone is
served
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Private Dinner Party
After the host picks
up silverware
Not unless insisted by
host
How to use your silverware…
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Start from the outside,
work in
Dessert fork or spoon
above plate
General dining etiquette rules…
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Follow dress code on
invitation
Never arrive late
Sit man-woman-man
at table
Join in with a toast
Send a thank you
note
Serving Food
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Food served from left
Plates taken from right
Always say please
“Thank you” to waiter
Dip transferred to plate first
Passing dishes or food
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Pass food from left to right
Pass both salt and pepper
Set food on table to pass
Never intercept a pass
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Always use serving utensils
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Eating
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Don’t talk with your mouth full
Don’t blow on your food
Cut bite size pieces
Only one or two pieces
Don’t play with food
Table Manners
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No slurping or burping
Keep your elbows off
the table
Mingle, don’t talk too
loud
Say “excuse me”
when leaving
No toothpicks or
apply makeup
No cell phones
Proper tipping in a restaurant…
16%
14%
12%
Waiter
10%
Bartender
8%
Wine
Steward
6%
4%
2%
0%
Tip from Bill
Dividing or sharing the bill…
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6 or more people, divide bill
If dividing, tell before hand
If order less, make payment smaller
Sources
"Dining Etiquette Guide, Table Manners, Dinner Party Manners, United
States Dining Table Manners, Dinner Etiquette, Restaurant Dining
Etiquette, Food Etiquette Guide." What's Cooking America, Fathers
Day, Fathers Day Recipes, Memorial Day Picnics, Old Fashion
Picnic Foods, Healthy Eating, Weight Loss, Healthy Diets, Beauty
Articles, Food Articles, Diet Articles. Web. 20 May 2010.
<http://whatscookingamerica.net/Menu/DiningEtiquetteGuide.htm>.
YouTube - Basic Dining Etiquette - Table Taboos. YouTube - Broadcast
Yourself. Web. 18 May 2010.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFgw9OkN-k>.
Photograph. Web. 18 May 2010.
<http://blogs.mspmag.com/foodiefile/restaurant-bill.jpg>.
Photograph. Web. 18 May 2010.
<http://www.raferbilliards.com/Rules_Graphic.gif>.
YouTube - Bad Table Manners. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18
May 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unXKYK0uRJ8>.