University Etiquette A Menu Card In Celebration of July 4th Independence Day Creative Correct Table Setting

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A menu card can be used to help to theme a meal, and to add ambiance to an event. It may be used to list courses to be served. It could be used as a guide to the items needed in each place setting: from the last course to the first, and as a cheat sheet for the kitchen. Formally, a menu card is to be in cream or white card stock, and can have a beveled gilt or silver edge. Informally it may be in any color or paper, without an edge. It is to be four to four and one half inches wide, by 6 to 6 1/2” high. It can be written on a blank 4 x 6 index card. It may be no bigger than five by seven inches.

In business or in public, a menu card may contain a logo or symbol to center of it. In a home, it may contain a heraldic device, a monogram, or intertwined initials. Each item may be embossed, engraved, or printed. Formally, this item may be printed in a color to match the beveled edge of the card, or in the theme color of the event.

For extremely important occasions, a menu card could be engraved in French in script in black ink. For a less formal occasion, the items might be written by hand in calligraphy, typed, or printed.

One menu card can be provided for each two place settings, usually at the setting for each woman. Each card may be signed by each guest at a given table, and given or retained as a memento of the event.

One card is to be retained by the cook. It is to be used by the host as a reminder of the items not to serve the same people at the next event, unless by request. Informally, a menu card may be printed two to each side, four to a page, on construction paper.

A larger version may be printed one to a page, and used as a kind of sign in sheet. Have some fun with one.

Barbeque Pot Luck

Dinner

In Celebration of

Independence Day

Menu

Stars N Stripes hot dogs

(&)

Independence hamburgers

One by land deviled eggs

Musket ball corn

Boston baked beans

Minuteman rice

Revolutionary salad

Greens - Potato -& Macaroni

Liberty cake and pie

BYOT: Bring Your Own Tea

Skyline Terrace

Saturday, July 4, 20__