Good Table Manners
Just don't do these things!
How to have good table manners - just don't do these things!
- Eating with the mouth open
- Making noises; slurping, chewing loudly, burping
- Talking and gesticulating while eating
- Putting too much into the mouth
- Elbows on the table
- Elbows stuck out in a flapping-like-a-chicken position
- Holding the fork or knife in stabbing position
- Hunching over the food like a dog
- Eating too quickly (like there's no tomorrow); and especially putting food in your mouth before you're done with the previous mouthfull.
- Clinking cutlery like stirring a tea spoon loudly
- Don't gesture with your cutlery
- Don't double dip
- Overloading the plate
- Making a mess at your table with bits of food and spills
- Rocking your chair; getting up and sitting down noisily
- Sticking your little pinky out when drinking your tea cup
- Children should not leave the table without asking first
But they should not be left free to run around, play and annoy other patrons.- Do not leave the table when someone hasn't finished eating
- Don't pick up dropped napkins, cutlery - ask for one.
- If you have to polish your cutlery, please do it discreetly or unseen.
- Do not put used cutlery back on the table.
- Don't take pictures of food or of the restaurant or the buffet.
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I'm guilty of this, I do this sometimes especially when I want to blog about what I ate. I try to do this very discreetly and swiftly (if I absolutely had to). Also, photography is completely not allowed in traditional clubs.
- Don't use your fingers or clap or shout hey or wave at your waiter.
- Don't make a fuss.
- Do not talk down or be rude to your waiter.
- Do not gulp your drinks down.
- Do not get drunk!
- Do not adjust your plate or move the table settings around after it has been set
- Do not reach over, ask for the plate to be passed to you.
- Don't blow your nose at the table.
Once, my friend's brother got asked to leave an elegant restaurant in LA.- Stop looking at your phone every 15 minutes! Please put your phone and other devices away and leave them on silent.
- Please do not touch up your make up at the table.
- Do not be stingy with your tips, especially if good service was rendered.
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