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Etiquette Presentation
Etiquette Presentation
Agenda
• Why Manners Matter
• General Social and Dining Etiquette Rules
• The formal table setting
• Serving Food, Passing Dishes
• Table Manners
• Eating
• Tipping
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Why Manners Matter
“Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you?’ is a
greeting, not a question.” Arthur Guiterman 5
General Etiquette Rules: Seating
• Keep up-to-date on current events in your industry
• Tables are for food and utensils
• Turn off your cell phone
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General Etiquette Rules: Passing
• Pass food from the left to the right.
• If another diner asks for the salt or pepper, pass
both together, even if a table mate asks for
only one of them.
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General Etiquette Rules: Eating Continued
• Cut only enough food for the next mouthful (cut no more than
two bites of food at a time).
• Don't make an issue if you don't like something or can't eat it –
keep silent.
• Break your bread into small bites and then butter it.
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General Etiquette Rules: Finished Eating
• When you are finished eating do not push your plate away from
you.
• When dining with others, everyone should start and finish at the
same time.
• To signal that your are done with the course, rest your fork, tines
up, and knife blade in, with the handles resting at five o'clock
and tips pointing to ten o'clock on your plate
• Say "Excuse me," or "I'll be right back," before leaving the table.
Do not say that you are going to the restroom.
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
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General Etiquette Rules: Common Problems
• Be discrete if you have problem with the food.
• Remove food the same way it went in-on silverware.
• Excuse yourself, if you have to leave the table.
• Turn your head from the table when you cough or sneeze.
• If someone uses your bread plate; Do not use the bread plate
on your right as a replacement.
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Time to Practice
• Buffets
• Cafes and coffeehouses
– 10 to 15 percent to the countertop tip jar.
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General Etiquette Rules: Dinner Party
• Dress Code: Follow whatever dress code is requested on the
invitation or suggested by the host/hostess.
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General Etiquette Rules: Dinner Party
• Thank You Note: After a formal dinner party, a thank you note
should be sent to the hostess. Depending on how well you
know your hosts, a telephone call is also acceptable.
“A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is
a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you"
and why not?” –Israelmore Ayivor
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Questions