Outclass the Competition
by Harold Almon baesoe.com
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin
In frugal fast food service tray service, a sandwich fries, and drink or the equivalent is to be served on a tray. A tray made for someone else is to be covered with a place mat. This was a rule long before the advent of anything named “Mickey D’s,” or the breech by “Bell. 1. An additional place mat is to be requested for each person to be at the table. (Ask for the extras and glasses for water – even if you have to buy them.) Get napkins, and optionally real knives and forks.
2. The tray is to be carried to the table. Remember to select a seat to show honor to the person with you. Give up the seat to which the person with you will gravitate – the seat of honor. Some people do it instinctively.
3. Food given in a bucket or box is to be placed to the left of each person who is to receive one. Glasses are to the set above the place setting space. Place mats are to be provided. Then using a wrapper or a plate, as a base, items are to be set on a place mat in cover: a place setting configuration.
The tray is to be taken to the stand for it. Sit down. Looks like it cost more already. Eat and Be at Ease.
4. When handed dinner in a bag. The bag, box, container, is to be used to carry food to the table, with or without a tray. It may be used to set food atop it in absence of a wrapper or a plate. It can be set to the left of the plate space to be discarded.
Next, you can
Practice Cafeteria Style Service: were food is served away from the table by a server who is across another table from the people being served. And practice Buffet style service: were from is provided away from the table for self service. Be at ease.
1. After you pay, or sign in, for your meal, get a table a chair, and then when eating in courses, remember to establish a cover. Avoid taking a fork to table alone – even here when you can pair it with a knife. A glass for water is required when eating in company. It can be for wine where water is scarce. No drinking on the way to the table.
2. After establishing a cover, avoid approaching the food table too fast.
3. Bread is to be present at table when eating in company. You can be the bread person. Get a plate or basket of rolls or buns for everyone, and one more for the plate, (and butter too if you can find some.)
4. Avoid putting too much food onto your plate, filling two plates at the same time, looking like you are trying to serve your whole table, or looking as you are eating for the last time. Eat in courses over eating in piles.
5. Leave your used plate center the place setting. Leave silver at the table in the finished position, before helping yourself to the next selection. Each course is to get its own set of flatware.
6. Flatware can be set in a rest position, on a plate, (when only one set is provided.) I only mention this because it happens.
7. Get the next course. Then you can take the used plate to the busing station or push the plate up or to side for someone to take. It may have already been taken. (Let the dream live.)
8. Avoid pushing or passing trash. Except at breakfast, avoid eating cereal as your last course or dish. This, again, is something I have witnessed.
What makes this frugal? Once you have paid you can stay and eat until closing. You can invite a date, and know exactly what it is going to cost you. You can still establish your cover, set your table, say thank you a lot, and were appropriate tip like a player.
Now back to home and eating alone. You may practice eating frozen dinners, or meals on wheels, both just other forms of pre-paid meal plans.
1. Contents of each reheated dish are to be covered with a plate and tipped onto it or spooned out onto one, and a cover is to be established before the meal is eaten.
2. You owe yourself napkin and a glass, a plate or a dish, and optionally a knife and a fork.
3. You can do the same with items that are delivered. Now that you have “cooked,” you may invite someone to join you for table talk.
Now where is that one piece of fruit cut on a bias to share?
Someone call them, “Dinner is going to be awesome.”
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