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Know Which Glass is Yours and Take A Friend to
Lunch
As you make changes in your life and grow, you will want to increase
your circle of friends. A great way to do that is to take a friend,
business associate, or mentor to lunch. You may be invited to a
party, Chamber of Commerce or Rotary meeting or other business
networking event that includes a meal. Or you may be invited to
dinner with some new friends. Either way you want to make sure
you project the professional and polished person that you are. Bad
table manners are inexcusable in business and your personal life.
They project a person that has not reached a sophisticated level of
accomplishment. Someone accomplished would know which
glass is his or hers. So be sure to brush up on table etiquette
during your “meanwhile.”
Proper posture at the table is very important. Sit up straight, with your
arms held near your body. You should neither lean on the back of
the chair nor bend forward to place your elbows on the table.
Rule Break: There are foods that can carefully be eaten with your
fingers. These include: artichokes, asparagus without sauce,
bacon, bread, hors d'oeuvres, sandwiches, cookies, small fruits or
berries with stems, french fries and potato chips, hamburgers and
hot dogs, corn on the cob, and pickles.
Eight Rules for Dining Etiquette:
1. Take your lead from the host. When he sits down to eat you sit
down. When she puts her napkin on her lap, you do the same. If he
orders dessert, you may as well, etc.
2. In general, your napkin goes on your lap when you sit down, on
your chair when you excuse yourself from the table, and on the table
to the right of the plate when you are finished.
3. Solids (bread and butter plate, salad plate and napkin) are on the
left. Liquids (glasses and coffee cup) are on the right.
4. Do no order alcohol or smoke at a business lunch.
5. Work from the outside in with utensils. The salad fork is on the
outside as the salad is served first.
6. Break and butter only the piece of bread you will put in your
mouth. Do not put the entire roll in your mouth.
7. Cut your food with the fork in your left hand and the knife in your
right both with the handles under your palms and directing the
utensil with your pointer fingers. The knife cuts behind the fork. Put
down the knife at the top of the plate, edges toward you, when you
take a bite.
8. When you are finished eating put the knife, edges toward you,
behind the fork with its tines down at the 10:00 and 4:00 o’clock
position on the plate.
Three Simple Rules to Put Good Manners to Use:
1. Take your mentor or a new friend to lunch once a month.
2. Always pay.
3. Send that friend a follow up note on how much you enjoyed the
lunch and appreciate their guidance. Include a tip or information
that can help them in an area of interest to them.
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Lunch
As you make changes in your life and grow, you will want to increase
your circle of friends. A great way to do that is to take a friend,
business associate, or mentor to lunch. You may be invited to a
party, Chamber of Commerce or Rotary meeting or other business
networking event that includes a meal. Or you may be invited to
dinner with some new friends. Either way you want to make sure
you project the professional and polished person that you are. Bad
table manners are inexcusable in business and your personal life.
They project a person that has not reached a sophisticated level of
accomplishment. Someone accomplished would know which
glass is his or hers. So be sure to brush up on table etiquette
during your “meanwhile.”
Proper posture at the table is very important. Sit up straight, with your
arms held near your body. You should neither lean on the back of
the chair nor bend forward to place your elbows on the table.
Rule Break: There are foods that can carefully be eaten with your
fingers. These include: artichokes, asparagus without sauce,
bacon, bread, hors d'oeuvres, sandwiches, cookies, small fruits or
berries with stems, french fries and potato chips, hamburgers and
hot dogs, corn on the cob, and pickles.
Eight Rules for Dining Etiquette:
1. Take your lead from the host. When he sits down to eat you sit
down. When she puts her napkin on her lap, you do the same. If he
orders dessert, you may as well, etc.
2. In general, your napkin goes on your lap when you sit down, on
your chair when you excuse yourself from the table, and on the table
to the right of the plate when you are finished.
3. Solids (bread and butter plate, salad plate and napkin) are on the
left. Liquids (glasses and coffee cup) are on the right.
4. Do no order alcohol or smoke at a business lunch.
5. Work from the outside in with utensils. The salad fork is on the
outside as the salad is served first.
6. Break and butter only the piece of bread you will put in your
mouth. Do not put the entire roll in your mouth.
7. Cut your food with the fork in your left hand and the knife in your
right both with the handles under your palms and directing the
utensil with your pointer fingers. The knife cuts behind the fork. Put
down the knife at the top of the plate, edges toward you, when you
take a bite.
8. When you are finished eating put the knife, edges toward you,
behind the fork with its tines down at the 10:00 and 4:00 o’clock
position on the plate.
Three Simple Rules to Put Good Manners to Use:
1. Take your mentor or a new friend to lunch once a month.
2. Always pay.
3. Send that friend a follow up note on how much you enjoyed the
lunch and appreciate their guidance. Include a tip or information
that can help them in an area of interest to them.
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows
You” and “Goals Are the First Steps to Results” go to: http://www.
startingovernow.com/Articles-and-Tip-Sheets.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a
stay-at-home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then
on to become a newspaper reporter, trade association executive
director, public relations consultant, and foundation president and
CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog on her
website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
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better productivity, or you are in a life transition you represent the
people and organizations Executive Leadership Coach Mary Lee has
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optimize your environment and wipe out fear and doubt. Make it fun =
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a country club life to the reality of a difficult marriage, divorce, poverty,
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primary source on career
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