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Table Manners

Table manners are an important part of etiquette that help promote respect between hosts, guests, and diners. They prevent people from acting sloppily or offensively at the table and establish guidelines for appropriate social interactions over meals. While table manners vary between cultures, they generally involve rules like sitting up straight, chewing with your mouth closed, and using utensils properly. Following good table manners ensures guests and hosts alike feel comfortable during dining.

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Table Manners

Table manners are an important part of etiquette that help promote respect between hosts, guests, and diners. They prevent people from acting sloppily or offensively at the table and establish guidelines for appropriate social interactions over meals. While table manners vary between cultures, they generally involve rules like sitting up straight, chewing with your mouth closed, and using utensils properly. Following good table manners ensures guests and hosts alike feel comfortable during dining.

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Manners are important in society. They help us to be civil to one another.

Because a person
who minds their manners knows how to act in every circumstance he tends to feel comfortable in
unfamiliar surroundings.
Nowhere are manners more important that at the table. Table manners prevent diners from
being sloppy, offensive and boorish. They help to communicate respect to hosts and guests alike.
Table manners are not hard and fast rules; rather they are helpful guidelines in our social
relationships.
Table manners are the rules of etiquette used while eating, which may also include the
appropriate use of utensils. Different cultures observe different rules for table manners.
Table manner was introduced by the Europeans, then, it becomes a standard rule,
especially when dining together at a formal event or in a family’s banquet events.
If we are able to demonstrate good manners at the dinner table, actually it will indirectly
indicate our social quality, intellect and also our social ethics. Ethics in eating is not set up
unexpectedly. It must be done since the age of children and teenagers.
Good basic table manners are important because they ensure that both guests and hosts are
comfortable at the table. Table manners are mostly common sense.

Etiquette rules of Table Manner:
 Sit up straight
 Don't speak with your mouth full of food
 Chew quietly, and try not to slurp
 Keep bites small
 Eat at a leisurely pace
 Don't wave utensils in the air
 Keep your elbows off the table
 Don't Reach
 Don't forget please and thank you
 Excuse yourself when leaving the table
 Compliment the Cook
 Wipe your mouth before drinking

The Benefits of Table Manner


There are so many benefits of table manner. Beside we get an interesting experience,
table manner can also help us when sometime we are in a formal banquet. Table manner makes
us more confident and more flexible in a formal banquet. It is very useful to show our good
manner in the table in front of the people.
Using table manners shows the people that you are eating with that you are polite. It also
demonstrates that you respect the people who prepared the meal and will clean up afterward.
Table manners prevent you from making too much of a mess. For example, using
silverware keeps food off of your fingers.
There are several advantages of taking the table manner course, they are:
 Understanding appropriate International Rules of Table Manner
 People can know what the table manner is. They also understand International rules of table
manner, which are used in formal events or banquette.
 Understanding how to use the eating utensils
 Using eating utensils is not easy as people use spoon and fork when they eat every day. There
are a lot of utensils with each function. By taking table manner course, people more
understand about how and when all of eating utensils are used.
 Understanding how to serve business clients
 It would not be embraced yourselves when serving business clients in restaurant or hotel
when having dinner in meeting.
 Understanding how to speak with guests and how to act in dining table
 There are ways to act in dining table. It is important because it can show people’s politeness,
(e.g. do not speak when there is food in the mouth).
 To raise our prestige
 It seems exclusive if people know table manner.
 Increasing self-confidence
 It makes people confidence because they know how to face business client in table manner
and makes the business well organized. 

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