Be Careful How You Place Your Silverware At A Restaurant...It Could Be Sending A Messsage
by N/A, 9 years ago |
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Everyone knows some of the common dining manners like always saying please and thank you, not putting your elbows on the table, or taking your hat off while eating. But do you know there are some more specific dining etiquette rules you should be following when you’re out to eat? Here is a simple list of 8 rules of etiquette you might not be as familiar with.
1. Positioning your utensils can signal your waiter or waitress if you are done, if you would like more, and how you enjoyed your meal.
2. There is a right and wrong way to handle your silverware. You should not grip your steak knife and once you have picked your utensils up you should not put them back on the table.
3. Did you know that resting your chopsticks across your bowl can be considered rude and is a breach of etiquette?
4. Also rubbing your chopsticks together is a sign of low quality chopsticks or a sign that the ones the restaurant gave you are cheap.
5. Placing your chopsticks like this in your rice bowl is an offering to the dead. - Bet you didn't know that!
6. When passing the salt and pepper you should always pass them together. Just remember if someone asks for salt, just hand them the pepper too!
7. This is an informal dining setting.
8. And this is what a formal dining setting should look like.
Some of these were pretty tough, I had no idea you could signal the waitstaff with your utensils. Next time you go out to eat, try some of these things out!
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