mardi 18 mars 2014

Find Out Some Of The Dining Rules And Etiquette Guide You Should Observe

By Gwen Lowe


Sharing a meal with friends is one of those social events to look forward. People always feel the need to be accepted in society. The need to relate well with others is a basic need for humanity. Making a good impression therefore can help your cause a lot and ensure you are easily accepted socially. Basic know-how for example on the dining rules and etiquette guide to observe on a dinner table is one those social basic needs. To impress in such a setting, you need to realize the best dining tips out there.

The first you need to avoid is talking when you have food in your mouth. Although you and your friends would be in a discussion mood, you need to avoid talking shouting or talking when eating. This behavior may make people to have bad impression about you. Where possible, it is good to wait until the right moment when you would not offend anyone. Actually, talking with food in your mouth is bad manners.

Learn the basic communication skills on such occasions and avoid shouting. Find other ways of expressing yourself without having to shout. If you are being hosted by a friend, and you happen not to like what is being served, it is more polite to keep it to yourself rather than tell your host how much you hate what you are being served. Eat small bits at a time and avoid completely filling your mouth with food even when it is your favorite dish.

Avoid eating the food pieces that accidentally fall on the table. Some people would not find this a problem especially when feasting on some of the most prestigious meals. You should portray your high level of discipline even if you were feasting on tasty chunks of chicken meal. It is always good to leave the piece that falls on the table or put it in another empty dish, but avoid eating it.

In addition many people conduct some mistakes even without knowing it. For example, you should never stretch your hand to pick sugar dish from another table or from the further corner end. Instead, you should ask a person who is closer to assist you with the sugar dish. However, stretching or waking up to getting the dish would not be a better idea at all and it is not also acceptable.

Another behavior to avoid is picking up calls or using your cell phone while on the dinner table. This is very rude to the host and the rest of the people on the dinner table. This is distracting to others and also unhygienic where you are eating with your bare hands. As a preparation to dine with others, put your phone in silent mode or even switch it off.

It is completely unacceptable to sneeze or blow your nose when you dine with others. This shows lack of care for others and may even disgust them to the point of living the dinner table. If you feel the need to do any of these things, you would rather excuse yourself from the table and go do it somewhere else.

Another crucial aspect as dine is finishing your meal. Sometime, it is not good when you just take a quarter of the meal in your plate and leave the rest. This would be wastage to some people and it may not be pleasant.




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