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1. After you pay or sign in, for your meal, get a table a chair, and then when eating in courses, get a plate for bread.  Bread is to be present at a table when eating in company. You can be the bread person. Get a plate or basket of rolls or buns for everyone, (and butter too if you can find some.) 2.  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.

3. After establishing a cover, avoid approaching the food table too fast.

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. Flatware can be set in a rest position, on a plate, (when only one set is provided;) I only mention this because it happens.

Get the next course. Then you can take the finished plate to the bussing station or push the plate up or to the side for someone to take. It may have already been taken. (Let dreams live.)Avoid pushing or passing the trash. Except at breakfast, avoid eating cereal as your last course or dish. This, again, is something I have witnessed.