Dining Etiquette

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Dining Etiquette

• Tiffanys Table Manners

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Table Manners

• Table manners play an important part in making a
  favorable impression. They are a visible signal
  of the state of our manners and therefore are
  essential to professional success. Regardless of
  whether we are having lunch with a prospective
  employer or dinner with a business associate our
  manners can speak volumes about us as
  professionals.

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Napkin Use

• The meal begins when the host unfolds his/her
  napkin. This is your signal to do the same.
• Place the napkin on your lap. If it is a small
  luncheon napkin, completely unfold it. If it is
  a large dinner napkin, fold in in half
  (lengthwise) and place it on your lap.

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Napkins continued

• Use the napkin to gently blot your mouth when
  needed.
• If you leave the table during the meal, place
  your napkin on your chair as a signal to the
  server that you will be returning.
• The host will signal that the meal is over by
  placing his/her napkin neatly on the table ( to
  the right of his/her plate). Do not refold, but
  dont wad it up either.

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Ordering

• If, after looking over the menu, there are items
  you are uncertain about, ask your server any
  questions you may have.
• An employer will generally suggest that your
  order be taken first . Sometimes the server will
  decide how the ordering with proceed. Often
  womens orders are taken before mens.

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Courses

• As a guest, you should not order one of the most
  expensive items on the menu or more than two
  courses unless your host indicates that it is all
  right.

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Table Setting

• Remember the rule liquids to your right, solids
  to your left.
• It is important to place the glass wear, cup
  saucer, etc. in the same position after its use
  in order to maintain the visual presence of the
  table.

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Use of Silverwear

• Starting with the knife, fork, or spoon that is
  farthest from your plate, work you way in using
  one utensil for each course.

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Left Right

• Salad fork
• Dinner fork

• Soup spoon
• Beverage spoon
• Salad knife
• Dinner Knife

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How to use a Knife Fork (American)

• Hold the knife in your right hand and the fork in
  your left. Cut a few bite size piece of food,
  lay your knife across the top edge of your plate
  with the blade facing in. Change your fork from
  your right to your left hand to eat, fork tines
  facing up.

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European

• Same as the American style except that the fork
  remains in your left hand (tines facing down)
  while you eat.

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When you have finished

• Do not push your plate away.
• Lay your fork and knife side by side diagonally
  across your plate (the sharp edge of the knife
  face toward you, fork tines facing down).
• Remember the 10 and 4 rule.

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A few more things about silverwear

• Once you have used a piece of silverwear, never
  place it back on the table.
• Do not leave a used spoon in a cup, place it on
  the saucer.
• You can leave a soupspoon in a soup plate.
• Any unused cutlery is simply left on the table.