Frugal Cocktail Food Review Cooking 101 Strategies Professional & University Etiquette Provisioning

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Dishware for cocktail food is to be bread and butter plates.

Remember all those plates you got for bread, and underlying plates for bowls and first course glasses. Here is another place to use them.   Get more.  You can all eat from a common plate. But at some point this stops letting you be stylish.

You can use salad plates for cocktail food plates, but it may not be quite as frugal.

Add an inexpensive drink glasses, and the money you have spent is still less than twenty dollars.

A cheese plate with crackers and classic mustard could be a standard base.

The cocktail food table can be placed in the corner of a room. It is usually covered with a cloth covering the full front of it to the floor. It can be augmented by another table or table from which you can serve drinks, with an additional tray or a tub for the collection of dirty glasses and plates, toothpicks, and napkins. In public each can be collected to a tray and tray stand. In a private home this may be done on the bottom level of a two to three tiered covered roll in cart.

Give everyone the opportunity to have a second drink. At home, empty glasses left on a coffee table are to be collected two at a time. This is to be done as a matter of course unless the host bids a person to take his or her pre dinner drink into the dining room.

Before you leave, sign or have each guest sign the guest book.  Get on the mailing list. Sign up for the newspaper. Find someone who acted as your host and say thank you.

As for reciprocity: for the rest of your life, you are going to eat, and be responsible for sharing food with someone else; you can go on line and take a food handlers course, and there is even one that can certify you as a food service supervisor, paid or not for this trade. For doing this, we who gratefully, accept your invitations, and eat food prepared by you, thank you.