End of School Business Dinner Etiquette Camp Students Outshine the Competition

Over the Counter Etiquette
by Harold Almon baesoe.com (512) 821-2699

End of School Business Dinner Etiquette Camp
Students Outshine the Competition

Class Before You Eat =
Class While You Eat
Tuesday Friday or Saturday 

Excellent opportunity to learn (or brush up on)
etiquette for
Stations and Lines in Business Dining
Rules for Name Badge Placement
Handshaking
Something to Drink
Getting Business Cards
USA Menu Number of Courses
Advanced Formal Place Setting
Eating Continental Style in Business Dining
Chicken Manners Eating Chicken with a Knife and Fork
Rules for Saying Thank You and
Reciprocity
and more.

Two-hour program with 30 minute post-class discussion. Expenses and gratuities not included.

To attend call Harold Almon
School of Etiquette (512) 821-2699

Students Outshine the Competition Business Dinner Etiquette - The Short Course

Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon baesoe.com

Business Dinner Etiquette
Things to Learn and to Do

1. Learn how to survive a cocktail party: how to hold a napkin, glass, and a plate, in your left hand, functionally.

2. Drink: (without poking someone in the eye;) keep your elbows and arms down close to your sides. Pour liquid into your mouth, from your wrist. Do this silently. Know how to respond to an offer of an alcoholic drink. During daylight, order a “Virgin” drink over a “Non-Alcoholic one.” It is easier to say. Appear to be drinking less than the host, hostess, or person who is picking up the tap. At an evening event, make any drink Virgin (especially after your first.) When not drinking, keep your right hand warm, dry, and free.

3. Mingle. Be good company. Know where to wear that name badge. Do introductions (correctly,) senior then junior or junior to senior. When someone gives you a business card, know what to do with it and what to have to give back.

4. Learn seats of honor: where to stop at a table. At a family dinner, know an invocation acceptable to your host’s culture.

5. Place a napkin in your lap before eating or drinking anything.

6. Maintain your cover: (place setting for one,) or establish one.

7. Look for drinks to be served from the right (refreshing.) Look for glasses in a place setting to be left in place until after you have left the table, (unless it is a pre-dinner drink served on a napkin, or you are doing very formal dining.) Learn what to do after reading that reusable menu.

8. Look for food to be served (counter-clockwise) from the left (leaving.)

9 Take small amounts of food. (Eat in courses over eating in piles.) Avoid taking too little, or too much, or more in visual calories than those dining around you. Try a little of everything unless restricted by religion, health, or culture.

10. Avoid leaving teeth marks in bread that you are eating. Avoid bread until you receive an entrée; remember bread is not a first course.

11. Eat each meal in an accepted style. Know which fork to use and when and how. Cut items in only one direction, one or two pieces at a time. (Yes, you may eat only one thing at a time.) Avoid eating too little, too much, or too fast, or acting as if the meal is to be your last. Make as little noise as possible.

12. When at a loss as to how to eat a particular dish, watch the person who made or ordered it. You can ask, "How am I to eat this?" The lesson most likely will begin with a smile.

13. Avoid adding salt or pepper to food, unless it is to radishes, celery, corn, a potato or salad. When salt is requested, ensure both pepper and salt are passed.

14. (Sit up straight. Bring food to you.) Close your mouth around the edge of any fork placed in it. Chew each portion twenty-four times, with your mouth closed, and saver each bite. Taste buds live and digestion begins in the month not the stomach – yes that’s right.

15. Place your implements in the rest position for the style in which you are eating, anytime you want.

16. Take a hand rest often. Rest the heels of your hands on the edge of the table. You can rest your elbows on the table - in between courses. (Continentally, you can talk with a knife and fork in your hands. Keep them low.)

17. Talk, in business, some unseen food can still be in your mouth. Keep the people at your table company. (Remember, for some, your conversation is the entertainment.) Talk about things other than work (unless it is the purpose for the meal). Know what to do when someone stops to visit you at table.

18. Pace yourself. Eat each course in such a manner as to finish it along with the person to your right. In public, leave a little something of each course on your plate, and of each drink in each glass. Leave each course plate in position until it is removed by a waitperson or replaced by the next plate. Look for food to be removed from the right (retrieving.) (Avoid helping: passing your plates, unless asked, even when you use to wait tables. At dinner is not the place to display this trait.)

19. When it is time, “Take a break.” Before temporarily leaving the table place flatware in the rest position for the style in which you are eating; get up; place your napkin in your chair. When its time, sing the company song. When it is time, dance. Let the host pay (and tip) where required.

20. Before permanently leaving a table, place flatware in the finished position for the style in which you are eating.

21. Place your napkin in a mock fold to the left of your place setting, (again napkin to the side.) Avoid putting any napkin on your used plate or in any glass. Avoid staking plates or making plates"trash." Get up and push in your chair until it is six inches away from the edge of the table.

22. Say thank you. Then, say thanks again later by note.

23. Remember reciprocity. Read and research as much as possible the culture in which you will be the host. Watch each act of eating with an open mind, eye, and heart. Practice diligently. While eating in company, there are things to learn and do. – Business Dinner Etiquette, this is the short course.

How Do I Know You I Have Seen You Eat Business Dinner Etiquette

Over the Counter Etiquette
by Harold Almon (512) 821-2699

Business Dinner Etiquette
Students Outshine the Competition

Excellent opportunity to learn (or brush up on) etiquette for stations and lines in business dining, rules for name badge placement, notes on handshaking, something to drink, getting business cards, USA menu number of courses, setting a table, advanced formal place setting, eating Continental Style, how to eat chicken with a knife and fork, rules for saying thank you and more. Two-hour program with 30 minute post-class discussion. Also available 

Business Social Dining Etiquette

Mens Business Dressing Etiquette

Mens Personal Grooming Etiquette

by etiquette lessons, labs, books and limited telephone consultations. (512) 821-2699

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Healthy Sides and Snacks Frugal Foods and Stylish Recipes

Over the Counter Etiquette
by Harold Almon

My Palate® Almon Hitt - Healthy Sides and Snacks

Bring/Buy/Add Your Own-BBAYO
Nuts - Almonds
Seeds - Pumpkin
Low Fat Cheese
Farmers Cheese
Mozzarella
Swiss
Low Fat Pudding
Low Fat Yogurt
Eggs Pre Made
Wheat Bagels
Pita Bread
English Muffins
Noodles
Oatmeal Bowl Ready
Wheat Pizza
Air Popped Popcorn
Pretzels
Rice Cakes/Crackers
Corn Tortillas
Waffles
Black Beans
Garbanzo Beans/ Hummus
Lentil Hummus/ Soup Pre Made
Peanut Buttter
Pinto Beans
Chile
Apricots
Peanut Butter and
Fruit Sandwiches
Bananas
Citrus
Grapes
Organic Apples
Extra Peppers
Baked Potato
Extra Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Fish Canned or Uncanned
Broccoli
Carrots
Extra Onions
Extra Lettuce
Chicken
Spinach
Deli Meat
Hamburger
Tofu
Turkey
Coffee
Grape Juice
Water

Caesar Salad Served Alone or as a Pizza Side

Over the Counter Etiquette
by Harold Almon

Caesar salad can served alone or as a pizza side. It can be found ready to make from a kit. Recipes for Caesar salad may be obtained from the Internet along with one for Insalata Caprese.

Cobb salad can be made with Romaine lettuce. It too can be more of a meal salad. You can learn to make a good and delicious Cobb Salad or Cube Salad. What to do, get

•1 large cucumber

•2 beef steak tomatoes or cherry tomatoes

•1 yellow onion or long green onions or red onion

•1 Tablespoons dried basil

•1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

•1/4 cup of red wine vinegar

Cube toss and chill. Sprinkle with oregano. Add lettuce mixed and serve. You can add a meat to it such as steak and get a Steak Cobb Salad. Recipes for Cobb salad can be obtained from the Internet.

Salad can be served as a main course.

Informally, you can served mixed green salad, (w/o sliced or diced tomato), or Hail Caesar, if you know how. A Caesar Salad is to be made (w/ Romaine lettuce, shredded Parmesan, and croutons, and a classic Caesar dressing.) It can be more of a meal salad. It goes well with pizza. Pizza in squares may be served as a side to this salad.

Green beans, artichoke hearts, and cherry tomatoes (cut in half) can be added to a green leaf salad. Italian dressing with shaved Parmesan may be added at plating. Some crushed red pepper flakes could add a hot bite. The more items added the more salad goes from a course to a new meal.

Remember salad can be topped with protein bits, seasoned croutons, and or seeds, and be provided with signature crackers.

National Etiquette Week May 13 - 19 2013 Men and an Etiquette Education

Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon baesoe.com

An Etiquette Education
Students Outshine the Competition

"Seek knowledge. Go to college. Stay there until you are through. If they can make penicillin out of mold, that’s true," they will make a passport for you to be you. A’s are pretty to see.  C’s equal a degree.  A degree is a social passport. It can allow you entry into new country. Your transcript may be your ticket. It could determine where you get to sit. Add a course in etiquette; it might be a key to access: how you fit, what you get to see, and how long you get to stay.  

Education without sophistication leads to isolation. There is a social requirement to academic refinement. Get your degree. It is required for long-term stability in an upwardly mobile society. It provides a socially acceptable reason to hang out away from home. It can have little to do with the job that you do. Know your education level. For the rest of your life someone will pay you by it and ask it of you.

Have a major. It can be that your major will support you. It may just be your passport. Your major will allow someone to give you credit, or worse to give you a loan. It can be used to let you take a test for a job, and/or to pay you more for the time you trade for money. “To get a good job, get a good education, (in fields which are hiring.)” Get the certification. Few people will ask you about your GPA or your degree, after you do.

You may have many degrees, as long as one is not a doctorate. Avoid getting a PhD unless your major is a “Hard” science, (here a Masters is the Bobbie prize,) or unless you are willing to be self-employed, to teach, and/or to live off grants or insurance money, and then only if you are lucky.

When you get older, go back and get it. It is a nice passport. It is nice to have someone call you doctor.  Pick up a class in etiquette. A doctorate without etiquette is an awkward fit, is inadequate. Even you would not want to be around you - if you knew. And now you do.  No fear.  Add a course (more than a one day class) in etiquette. Poise is going to look good on you.

In business, you will learn that a degree is only a license to allow someone to let you do what you were already good enough to do, pay you for it, promote you, and to maintain limited liability. An advanced degree is a license to allow you to be a full director in your field, even when the two are non-related. Even from this you will retire.

Have a minor. It is your minor that will give you your freedom. Place in it your passion, your work, and your research. Remember what it was that was important to you, shared with you, and taught to you. While you are busy making money, practice doing the thing(s) that will make you free. If and when your minor gets to be your major you have captured the brass ring.

 Follow the work of your minor. Then teach it. Those who can teach do. It is an obligation. Those who cannot teach, teach teachers. What does it matter as long as the word gets out? When you do get to the table, it will be as an equal.

You can not inherit or bequeath a degree. You can get one or to the same place and do the same thing with a good work summary in a field you have pioneered or explored intently and extensively. It takes a lot longer. 

Get your degree. You can start with CLEP tests, and with life experience credits. How long can you stay dumb or without one? Until you learn and pass tests.  Then who can take knowledge (or your degree) from you? Remember this about education, it is a social passport, even when you are just going home. Etiquette is the rules for the role: what you need to get and how to dress for the trip.

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Fast Food Meat Combos are not Complete Frugal Foods and Stylish Recipes

Fast food meat combos are each an incomplete part of a meal plan. These combos can include fish. How odd each fast food chain is now introducing cod.

Fish is to be paired with a stem tuber. You can always forgo the potato, unless you eat it with mustard, curry sauce, or sprinkle it with vinegar.

Have the Chili first; better to eat fish with soup, chili, or chili fries (cheese on the side) and crackers, a torte, quiche, or to get a boiled egg to go with that than to load a potato with dairy.

What makes Fast Food frugal? This, it can be purchase with coupons, and when you can get a “value drink” the refills are generally free.

Frugal tip: 1) Eat meat one day a week. 2) Eat meat say every other day. 3) Give up meat one day a week. Make your choice your treat. For food categorizing eggs are listed with dairy. I call eggs petite meat. You can have two every other day. If worried about cholesterol, maybe have one. Petite meat could help get and keep you skinny. Recommended portions of meat might help combat fat.

Frugal tip: 2) Eat open face sandwiches. Sure you can and do. You just called them pizza. Get to see what you eat, and get full faster. The other grain you can leave on your plate or when eating alone it can be taken with you.

My Palate ® Almon Hitt - Fast Food Snack Fish and Sandwiches Non Deli Protein Omega Fat - OM

Fish Cod
Herring-O Lox-O
Mackerel Fresh Water Salmon-O
Fresh Water Salmon
Canned w Bones-O Salmon Dip
Sardines Sardines Canned in Mustard
Sardines Canned in Oil Sardines Canned in Tomato Sauce NR
Albacore Tuna Chunk Tuna
Chuck Tuna Dip/Pate Tuna Salad
Tuna & Egg Salad

“Omega-3s can help to make your metabolism more efficient, slow digestion, and prevent cravings.”

My Palate ® Almon Hitt - Snack Breakfast Sandwiches-Animal Protein PF No Sauce or Sauce on the Side

Beef Sirloin
Breakfast Steak
Pork
Applewood Smoked Bacon
Bacon
Chorizo
Ham
Hot Links
Pork Chops
Pork Skins
Potted Meat Dip
Prosciutto
Sausage Long
Sausage Round
Polyunsaturated Fat - PF
Turkey Bacon-PF
Reduced Fat Turkey Bacon – PF

• Portion
• Meat Servings Serving size 3 ounces
1 ounce meat = 7 grams of protein
3 ounces meat = 21 grams of protein- recommended
16 ounces of meat = 116 grams of protein
Super sized meat goes to fat, thighs, bellies, and cheeks. Eat it if you must on your birthday.
• Calories

Palate ® Almon Hitt - Fast Food Sandwiches and Meats Non Deli Animal Fat No Sauce or Sauce on the side Open Face

Beef-Saturated Fat SF
Beef Franks Hot Dogs
Brisket
Fat Free Hot Dogs
Hamburgers
Meatballs
Sirloin Steak
Seafood-OM
Pizza-SF
Pizza Squares-SF
Pizza Sliders
Mock Meat
Soy Veggie Burger
Poultry - Polyunsaturated-PF
Chicken Fried
Chicken Salad
Rotisserie Chicken
Chicken Wings
Split Quartered
Chicken Liver Pate
Chicken Vienna Sausage

Frugal tip: soy mock meat is under review, better to eat it I am told, if you started at two years old. Starting after puberty, what it does to you is still a mystery.


My Palate ® Almon Hitt - Fast Food Deli Meats and
Sandwiches Process Meats are good to eat. If you
believe it, enjoy

Beef Bologna
Cocktail Beef Franks
Corned Beef
Meatballs Marinara
Mortadella
Pistachio Mortadella
Angus Roast Beef
Beef Salami
Beef Flank
Steak Bison
Chicken Breast
Grilled Chicken
Chicken Salad
Chicken Wings
Crab Cake
Smoked Salmon
Shrimp
Albacore Tuna Salad

Pork Bacon
Braunschweiger
Capicola
Calabrese
Ham
Cotechino
Pepperoni
Head Cheese
Dry Salami
Salami Genoa
Salmanetti
Hot Salami
Sliced Lengthwise
Sausage
Vienna Sausages
Soppressata

Turkey Bacon
Turkey Breast
Turkey Bologna
Turkey Ham
Turkey Pastrami Turkey Pesto
Egg Salad, Muffaletta Portobello, Tempeh,
Soy Glazed Tofu Deli Plate/ Platter/Tray

My Palate ® Almon Hitt- Fast Food Deli Meat Toppings
Egg-OM
Coffee Bar Cheese-SF
Fruit Avocados
Cucumbers
Dill Pickles
Guacamole
Olives Peppers
Jalapeños
Pepperoncinis
Tomatoes Dried Tomatoes
Fungi
Vegetables
Mushrooms
Arugula
Beets
Broccoli
Carrots
Kale
Kraut
Lettuce
Grilled Onions
Red Onions
Spinach
Sprouts

50 Percent of your fast food can be fruits or vegetables.
What better kind of toppings could you want?
Serving size Avocado 2 Tbsp or 1/8 piece, yeah right.

My Palate ® Almon Hitt-Fast Food New Condiments Oils and Sauces Saturated Fat-S Bring/Buy Your Own B/BYOC No Added Sugar (NAS) No High Fructose Corn Syrup (NHFCS)

Avocado Sauce
Basil - Pesto Sauce
Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce
Chipolotle ai oil
Crushed Red Pepper
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
Horseradish (Hr) Dressing
Ketchup (Kt) (NHFCS)
Hr Kt: Cocktail Sauce
Italian Dressing
Mustard Sauce
Classic Mustard
Creole Mustard
Dijon Mustard
Honey Mustard
Spicy Mustard
Siracha Hot Sauce
Truffle Oil
Apple Cider Vinegar
Wasabi

Note: think of where and how mustard can be used in lieu of dairy. Note the caloric difference.

“Olive oil is a healthy fat” it can turn on your metabolism and help you burn more body fat.”

For every item you consume know the recommended
Portion
Serving Serving Size
Calories

My Palate® Almon Hitt - Fast Food Old Condiments Oils and Sauces Hidden Saturated Fats- S Replace with No Sauces or Low Calorie Dressing & Sauces on the Side.

No Added Sugar (NAS) No High Fructose Corn Syrup (NHFCS) Bring/Buy Your Own Condiments - B/BYOC

Old Sauces
Bar-B-Que Sauce
Blue Cheese Dressing
Cheese Sauces
Nacho Cheese Sauce
Queso Cheese Sauce
Queso Avocado Cheese Sauce
Chili
Chili Queso Cheese Sauce
French Dressing
Mayonnaise in Celebration
Mayonnaise Organic Light
Chipotle Mayonnaise
Ranch Dressing Sandwich Spread
Soy Sauce
Special Sauce
Sweet and Sour Sauce
Steak Sauce
Tartar Sauce
Teriyaki Sauce
Worcestershire Sauce

My Palate® Almon Hitt - Deli Sides
Macaroni Salad
Potato Salad (Mustard)
Cole Slaw (Vinegar)

Dessert can be a snack, if it is low fat chocolate pudding.
Take one or two pieces of fruit to go. And later eat something green.

Search out
Plant sterols
Stanols
Psyllium fortified wafers if you can find some.

Frugal Foods and Stylish Recipes Buying and Eating Foods with Style on a Dime

Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon baesoe.com

ISBN 978-0-917921-02-5

Frugal Foods and Stylish Recipes
Etiquette Lessons for Couples and
College and University Students
Why Are You Hungry

An At Ease Press Book
A Be at Ease School of Etiquette Course Book

(100)

Text by
Harold Almon

Published by
At Ease Press baesoe

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or parts of it, in any form, except the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

TX 2 398 018
ISBN 978-0-917921-02-5

Copyright (c) 2012 by Harold Almon

Manufactured in the United States of America

With Illustrations

Text by
Harold Almon

Acknowledgements

To Ms. Anne: Mom, because of you, dining still has style.

To Julie and Janet, thank you for your master eat to defeat list that allowed me to buy and eat frugal foods that were good that I could still serve stylishly. To eat to defeat the belly hunger in me, and to enhance the appeal of what I see, I have added just a bit, to match My Palate®. Janet thank you for letting me listen to you as words about food rolled out of your mouth and onto what has ultimately become the My Palate® Almon-Hitt list from which this book is based. I had to know My Palate before I could make My Plate Meal Plan ®. Thank you Ray for letting me watch you shop, for sharing food insights and nuggets about what you add to standard recipes, and allowing me to set tables and serve and eat foods you make. Damn good stuff.

Foreword

Welcome to a world of Frugal Foods and Stylish Recipes Buying and Eating Foods with Style on a Dime Etiquette Lessons for Couples and College and University Students; this is a world where everything is done in consideration of your sense of sophistication and your wallet.

Discover fun ways to select foods and place stylish dishes on your table. This book was written for two reasons.

1. The rule has always been, more than, “Saving money on buying food can be fun.” The best part is eating it in style and giving back: sharing it with someone.

2. Stylish recipes are a way to say, “Welcome to the neighborhood,” and that, “I would like an introduction,” to share a meal with you, and reciprocity: you to share a meal with me. Frugal food selection and creative preparation are what is best done for such occasions.

Both can be done with flair, consideration, and distinction. You may share drink, atmosphere, food, honor, and enjoy each reason why a person accepted your invitation. Before there is a need to say, “Hello,” to someone, let us begin.

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Eti - Q Test Business Social Dining and Business Dinner Etiquette Students Polished Table Manners

Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon baesoe.com

Dining Eti - Q Test to Pass Things to Learn and Do
Students Outshine the Competition

In addition to, the universal rule for eating in company, "_____________________________before leaving home"

1. Be punctual, ___________________, whatever this means in your community. (Occasionally show up with a present.)

2. N/A Know where to wear that name badge _____________.

3. N/A Shake hands the right way__________________.

4. N/A Do introductions (correctly, ______________then _____________ or _____________to ________________

5. N/A Mingle. Be good company. When someone gives you a business card, know what to do with it ____________________________, and what to have to give back. ____________________.

6. N/A Know how to respond to an offer of a drink, during daylight. Order _______________. It is easier to say than ________________.

7. N/A Learn how to survive a business party: how to hold a napkin, glass, and a plate, in your ____________, functionally

8. Drink without poking someone in the eye; avoid the crane; raising your elbow to take a drink from a glass.) __________________________. ________ liquid into your mouth, from your wrist. Do this _________. When not drinking, _______________________________ (And wash your hands before you come to or stay at the table.)

9. Know the current USA menu number and order of courses ___: ______________, __________, __________, __________, __________. Learn what to do after reading that reusable menu______________________.

10. Maintain your cover: _________________________, or establish one.

11. N/A Know which fork to use: name six, _______________, ______________, ____________, _____________, _______________, ____________, and when.

12. Avoid bread until ____________________________; remember bread is not a first course. Avoid leaving _________________ in bread that you are eating.

13. Talk. At a family dinner, know an invocation acceptable to your host’s culture.___________________. Keep the people at your table company. (Remember, for some, your conversation is the entertainment.) Talk about things other than work (unless it is the purpose for the meal.) Use your inside voice. Some _______________ can still be in your mouth. Know what to do when someone stops to visit you at table. __________.

14. When seated at a table, place a napkin _____________ before eating or drinking anything.

15. Eat each meal in an accepted style: ______________or ______________________. _______________ in only one direction, one ____________________ at a time. (Yes, you may eat only one thing at a time.)

Avoid eating too little, too much, or too fast, or acting as if the meal is to be your last. When at a loss as to how to eat a particular dish_________________________________. You can ask ___________________________________?" The lesson most likely will begin with a smile.

16. Notes to Self: Eat a little something before leaving home. Order something easy to eat.

17. Look for food to be served (counter-clockwise) from __________ (leaving.) At a table -- look for drinks at table to be served from ________ (refreshing.) Look for glasses in a place setting to be left in place until unless, __________________________ or _____________. Take small amounts of food. (Eat in ___________ over eating in piles.) Avoid taking too little, or too much, or more in visual calories than those dining around you. Try a little of everything unless restricted by religion, health, or culture.

18. (Sit up straight. _____________________________.) Close your mouth around the edge of any fork placed in it. Chew each portion __________________, with your mouth closed, and saver each bite. Taste buds live and digestion begins __________________ not the stomach – yes that’s right. Make as ____________________ as possible.

19. Pace yourself. Eat each course in such a manner as to finish it__________________________. Take __________ often. Rest the __________________ on the edge of the table. You can rest your elbows on the table __________________. (Continentally, you can talk with a knife and fork in your hands. ____________________.

Place your implements in ___________________ for the style in which you are eating, knife blade facing____________________________________anytime you want, and ______________________.

20.N/A In public, ___________________ of each course on your plate and of each drink in each glass. Leave each course plate _____________until it is removed by a waitperson or replaced by the next plate. Look for food to be removed from _____________ (retrieving.)

(Avoid helping: passing your plate, unless asked, even when you use to wait tables. At dinner is not the place to display this trait.) Know what to do when someone visits your table_______. Between courses, ________________.

21. Before temporarily leaving the table place flatware in __

___________________for the style in which you are eating; blade facing _____________________. Get up; place your napkin ____________. When its time, sing the company song______________. When it is time, dance. Let the host pay (and tip) where required. OK back to class.

22. Avoid adding salt or pepper to food, unless it is to ________, _________, _________, ___________, or ______________. When salt is requested, ensure _________________________. Avoid ________________.

23. Before permanently leaving a table, place flatware in ____________________ for the style in which you are eating.

24. Place your napkin in a mock fold to the___________ (leaving) side of your place setting, (again napkin on the side.) Avoid putting any napkin on your used plate or in any glass. Avoid staking plates or making plates “trash.” Get up and push in your chair until it is six inches away from the edge of the table.

25. Say thank you. Then, say thanks again later by note. Use ________________________________ or (for a woman)_______________ Avoid ___________________. Remember reciprocity, where required. Read and research as much as possible the culture in which you ___________________. Watch each act of eating with an open mind, eye, and heart. Practice diligently. While eating in company, there are things to learn and do. – This is the short course __________

For answers read the blog, read the book, or bring this test to class. N/A items are from the next class. I know you want - Manners in a minute – done – but just some. Math took months, but Manners to Etiquette takes practice that’s the rest of life’s test. (Optional)

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Business Dinner Etiquette Eat Smarter than a Ninth Grader

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by Harold Almon baesoe.com

Business Dinner Etiquette
Eat Smarter than a Ninth Grader
Look as Educated as You Speak
When You Eat
 
Students Outshine the Competition
Tuesday Friday or Saturday
Excellent opportunity to learn (or brush up on) etiquette for Stations and Lines in Business Dining
Rules for Name Badge Placement
Notes on Handshaking
Something to Drink
Getting Business Cards
USA Menu Number of Courses
Setting a Table Advanced-Formal Place Setting
Eating Continental Style
How to Eat Chicken with a Knife and Fork
Eating Salad with the Third Fork
Rules for Saying Thank You and Reciprocity
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