3.0 Table Service, Manners, and Etiquette

When a bread and butter plate will be used in the table setting, along with a salad plate, where should it be placed?

Above the forks to the upper left

The salad dressing you would like is across the table. How do you get it?

Ask someone to pass it to you.

Napkins are included in the table setting for a formal meal. Where should the napkin be placed?

At the place setting on the left of the dinner plate

Goblets, tumblers, and glasses are considered what classification of tableware?

Beverageware

When large groups of people need to be served, which classification of service is often used?

Buffet service

A food to which you are allergic has been served? What do you do?

Discretely tell your host. Do not make a big scene.

The meal is rather formal, and the host serves fried chicken. How do you eat it?

Eat as much as you can with a fork and knife. If the host is using his/her hands to eat the chicken then you can too.

You start to have a sneezing spell. What do you do?

Excuse yourself from the table.

Forks, spoons, and knives are all considered what kind of tableware?

Flatware

A salad is served as a first course and the main part of the meal will be served later. Two forks are part of the place setting. Good table manner guidelines indicate that a person should use what utensil to eat the salad?

Fork farthest from the plate

When a group of teens were eating out and received poor service, they became noisy and did not leave a tip. What type of behavior did the teens display?

Inappropriate

You have dropped an eating utensil. What do you do?

Leave it on the floor.

Compared to family service, continental or Russian service is

More formal

You have just finished eating. What do you do with your flatware?

Place it at the 5 o'clock position on your plate

You sit down at the table what do you do with your napkin?

Place it in your lap

Bread is served with the meal. How do you eat it?

Place it on your bread and butter plate. Butter it one bite at a time with butter that you have placed on your bread and butter plate.

David is having dinner with his elderly grandfather. Which guideline for table manners should David use?

Pull out the chair and help his grandfather be seated

Use the Image on the Haiku screen of the table setting to answer the following question: What is item 9 in the place setting?

Soup bowl

Use the Image on the Haiku screen of the table setting to answer the following question: What is item 8 in the place setting?

Soup spoon

There are three forks next to your plate. How do you know which one to use first?

Start at the outside and work your way in.

Jason is hungry but only takes one serving of meat, leaving seven pieces for the other seven guests at the table. Which example of good manners is Jason following?

Taking no more than one's share

While eating fish, Sarah felt a bone in her mouth. Which guideline for good table manners should Sarah use?

Use a napkin to remove the bone as discretely as possible

Judy was pruning houseplants when her mother called her to dinner. Which guideline for good table manners should Judy use?

Wash her hands before going to the table

Aaron is visiting another country on vacation and eating in a restaurant. He notices that many around him are using eating utensils differently than he is accustomed to back home. What should he do?

Watch others in the restaurant and eat as they do

The reason Janet passes the serving dishes first to the guests at the table is to ensure that all guests

get fed