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Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon baesoe.com
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin

Practice eating in courses versus eating in piles: soup, fish, main course, salad, and dessert.

When a guest is to be at table a water glass is to be set at each setting. In a private home, each water goblet is to be filled ¾ full prior to the time people come to the table.

In a commercial dining room, water is to be served after people are seated.

At a banquet, each water goblet is to be filled ¾ full prior to the time people come to the table.

In a private home, the water glass can be refilled at the table, by a server, or guests from a pitcher on the table, or the hostess can offer it from a pitcher on a sideboard.

In a commercial dining room, the water glass can be refilled by a server without being lifted from the table.

Serve drink order.

The water can be chilled in old wine bottles with labels removed and served in the same. Water chilled in wine bottles with a screw cap may be decanted into a water pitcher.

At home water is pre-poured.  In a commercial concern, pour the water.

At Table- Prayer–

 Know an invocation acceptable in your host’s/ guests culture. One is to be omitted at a dinner party and at a business meeting.

 A prayer “Let the table conversation stay at the same decibel level as the invocation.”

 The difference in cafeteria café and formal dining room is the decibel level of conversations in them. Speak with your inside soft voice.

 Nothing as sweet as being able to hear yourself eat.

Let the serving begin.