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Proper dining may be key to an interview situation or business dinner. Everything you wanted know from the invitation to dessert. We have provided some information to help you get through the meal with class and style.
Intro | Checklist | Invitation | Dressing | Basic Rules | Definite No No's | Table Setting | Courses | Particular Foods
Dining With Etiquette
Seventeen Basic Rules
- Napkin on your lap as soon as you are seated.
- Course silverware accompanies course china service.
- Pass salt & pepper as a set.
- Wait for everyone at your table to be served before beginning to eat.
- When passing food platters, pass them around the table not across.
- Pushing food on to your fork with a piece of bread/roll is unacceptable as is using your fingers.
- Remove foreign objects with the same conveyance on which it entered the mouth. Exception: fish bones
- Never put silverware on the table surface after it has been used, lay it on the butter plate.
- Never ask for items that are not presented by the host/hostess.
- Some foods are better eaten at home.
- Never draw attention to food served to you that you can’t or won’t eat.
- Do not pre-season food before tasting it.
- Butter bite-sized portions of bread/roll as you eat them.
- Transport food to your mouth…not your mouth to the food.
- Never request seconds. Accept them graciously if they are offered.
- When you are in doubt of proper procedures, observe and follow good examples.
- Send Host/Hostess gifts, thank you note, etc…
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