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Dining Etiquette Can a Flying Tomato Really Ruin Your Career?

Dining Etiquette Can a Flying Tomato Really Ruin Your Career?. Gail Beausoleil Director, Davenport University Career Services. The Power of Etiquette. Why is dining etiquette so important? Employers assess your manners Will you embarrass the company in front of clients?

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Dining Etiquette Can a Flying Tomato Really Ruin Your Career?

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  1. Dining EtiquetteCan a Flying Tomato Really Ruin Your Career? Gail Beausoleil Director, Davenport University Career Services

  2. The Power of Etiquette Why is dining etiquette so important? • Employers assess your manners • Will you embarrass the company in front of clients? • Bill Gates is sneaky . . . • TIP NUMBER 1: It’s the DEAL not the MEAL

  3. The Basics • Know what to order • Consider price • Ask for recommendations from your host • Consider a food’s “disaster factor” • When do you talk about business? • If someone else arrives at your table . . . • Who pays? • TIP #2: Follow the Leader

  4. A Basic Dinner Setting

  5. Digging In • Within 10 seconds of sitting down, put napkin on your lap • Breadbaskets: • Whoever has the basket in front takes charge • Offer to your right and left guest, then take a roll and pass to the right • Take a dab of butter, place it on your bread plate • Tear your bread into small pieces and butter one piece at a time—NOT the whole roll

  6. Dinner’s On! Salad: • Salad fork is the one on the left • It’s ok to cut large pieces of vegetables Soup: • Spoon soup away from you • Sip from the side of the spoon not the front • Never blow on your soup or slurp it • Never pick up your bowl to get the very last bit • Don’t dunk!

  7. Random Quiz Time! • Your host orders an appetizer, soup, salad and entrée. You are really not hungry—what should you order? • Your host orders a glass of wine. You don’t drink. What do you do? • Where do you put your hands when you are not eating?

  8. Cutting Food • After cutting 3 or 4 small pieces, place knife on upper right edge of plate • Blade faces you • Put fork in right hand and eat

  9. Just Resting—Don’t Touch My Food! • Fork and knife cross at the center of your plate • Fork tines are DOWN • Blade faces you

  10. Finished Eating? • Place fork and knife near center of your plate • Knife blade should face you • Napkin folded on side of plate

  11. Food Fiascos • To salt or not to salt . . . • Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup • There’s a UFO in my mouth • You’re wearing the latest style of sauce

  12. What if . . . . • You drop your napkin on the floor? • You can’t seem to wrangle the peas on your fork? • You need to use the restroom?

  13. Random Quiz Time! What are two major tips about dining etiquette? B A C D E G F

  14. More Random Quizzing! What do these fork and knife placements signify? A B

  15. Finishing the Dinner • Try to finish your meal at about the same time as your host/group • Doggie bag? • Treat your waitstaff with respect • Thank the host!

  16. Resources for Dining Etiquette • Jay, R. (2006). The Art of the Business Lunch • Pachter, B. (2006). When the Little Things Count . . . and They Always Count. 601 Essential Things That Everyone in Business Needs to Know • Bowman, J. (2007). Don't Take the Last Donut: New Rules of Business Etiquette • www.mannersinternational.com • www.diningetiquette.org

  17. Thank You for Supporting Our Students! • Speedway • GreenStone Farm Credit Services • Farm Bureau Insurance • Demmer Corporation • Working Woman’s Cleaning Service • Diamondale Nursing Care Center • Capital Area Michigan Works! • Days Inn Hotel and Banquet Center of Lansing • Dart Bank • Enterprise Holdings • Superior Growers

  18. Additional Thanks To: • PFS Investments, INC • Judge Whitbeck • State of Michigan • Davenport University’s • Lansing Campus Director, Danielle DeLonge • Admissions, David Tyler • Academic Advising, Jenny Thurber • Your hostess extraordinaire—Career Services Coordinator, Tami Nykamp • And Executive Director of Career Services, Shelley Lowe

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