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Business Dining Etiquette

 

               BUSINESS DINING ETIQUETTE SEMINARS

To be successful in business, your business dining skills during a business meal must be on par with your professional skills.

Table manners do matter a great deal! Good manners show not only respect and consideration for fellow diners, but also one’s level of refinement. Please take a few moments to review our tips on business dining etiquette and table manners. 

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                           The Dos and Don'ts of Dining

  • Do not order difficult-to-eat foods (pasta, ribs,  lobster, etc.)
  • Follow the lead of your interviewer and mirror his/her body language.
  • Do not order alcohol to calm your nerves – control your emotions. 
  • Order the same number of dishes as your business partner.
  • Use proper “Continental Dining Style” – no switching fork back and forth.
  • Don’t move your bread-and-butter plate closer to you.
  • Learn the difference between a soup bowl and a finger bowl.
  • Pass salt and pepper shakers together.
  • Place your napkin on the left when your meal is finished. Do not refold it.
  • Don’t forget to turn off your cell phone.
  • If you're the person who initiated a business lunch/dinner -- you're paying the bill.

Business Dining Etiquette Seminars

 

 

Why Hire Etiquette Outreach as Your Business Etiquette Trainer?

  1. We stretch the boundaries of traditional etiquette, and offer new perspectives, modern framework, best practices, and time-effective training for the next generation of business professionals.
  2. We provide guidance on how to find your best-suited etiquette trainer, how to learn new skills, and how to get top results in your professional development.
  3. We teach other experts on how to be a world-class international consultant, how to present outstanding business-etiquette seminars and develop your own voice in this industry.
  4. We specialize in cross-cultural etiquette and international communications; providing training in five languages.
  5. We offer a historical perspective of the business etiquette industry.
  6. We interpret, synthesize, and translate the cultural norms and behavioral trends in business and corporate etiquette around the world.
  7. We break down etiquette myths and predict new trends.
  8. We don’t recycle old rules and we don’t offer “packages”; we customize our content and training to our clients’ needs and immediate goals.
  9.  We guarantee positive transformation, actionable change, and new outcomes.
  10. We cater to small businesses, large corporations, nonprofit organizations, universities, and global companies.

DINING ETIQUETTE: HOW TO HOLD YOUR UTENSILS

Grasping the utensils’ handles in the palms of your hands is step # 1; placing and keeping the index fingers on the back of the fork and knife is step # 2; and gently applying sufficient pressure right from the top of the fork and knife is step # 3.  For all right-handed users, the fork must remain in the left hand and the knife is in the right hand. All left-handed users may reverse the hands.  If you follow this  exercise on a daily basis, within a short period of time you will acquire polished dining skills.

However, if your dining utensils happen to be off balance, or the fork and knife are not used in sync, or are in the wrong hands, the result will be dramatically different – your food is sure to jerk gracelessly around your plate, the dining table may shake, and you might even bear the ultimate humiliation -- your food may be launched into space! Daily practice with utensils will assure a “lighter touch” at the dining table and the most desired result of all  – dining with grace!

To schedule your personal etiquette coach, please call 212-977-6804.

 

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