Business etiquette in the dining (Chinese and Western food) etiquette behavior and demeanor taboos
1, the trick of making reservations. The more upscale the restaurant the more need to make a reservation in advance. When making a reservation, not only do you have to say the number of people and the time, but you also have to indicate whether you want a smoking area or a seat with a good view. If it is a birthday or other special day, you can tell the purpose of the party and the budget. It is basic courtesy to arrive at the scheduled time.
2. Even the most expensive casual clothes should not be worn casually to a restaurant.
3. When entering a restaurant, men should open the door first and invite women to enter. If there is a waiter with a seat, you should also ask the lady to walk in front. When you are seated and the meal is served, you should let the lady take precedence. Even if it's a group event, don't forget to let the ladies go first.
4. Dressing appropriately for dinner is common sense in Europe and the United States. When you go to a high-class restaurant, men should wear neat tops and leather shoes; women should wear suits and shoes with heels. If formal dress is specified, men must wear a tie.
5. Take your seat from the left side of the chair. The most appropriate way to be seated is from the left side of the chair. When the chair is pulled out, the body in almost touching the table distance to stand straight, the usher will push the chair, the bend of the leg touches the back of the chair, you can sit down. When seated, the body should be upright, elbows off the table, not stilted, and at a distance from the table so that it is easy to use the cutlery. Do not fiddle with the tableware that has been placed on the table. Fold the napkin in half and place it gently on your lap.
6, the formal order of the whole meal order is: ① dish and soup ② cod liver oil ③ fruit ④ meat ⑤ milk cool cheese ⑥ dessert and coffee ⑦ fruit, and pre-dinner and dinner wine. It is not necessary to order everything, and it would be rude to order too much and not be able to eat it all. A good restaurant does not welcome people who only order appetizers. A starter, a main course (fish or meat) and a dessert is the most appropriate combination. You don't start with the appetizer, but rather choose the main course you want to eat the most, and serve it with a soup that suits the main course.
7. Don't pretend to be an insider when ordering wine. In high-class restaurants, there will be bartenders who are good at tasting wine to take the wine list. People who don't know much about wine, it's best to tell him the color of the dish he's picking, the budget, and the taste of his favorite liquor, and ask the bartender to help him pick it out.
8, the main dish if the meat should be with red wine, fish with white wine. Before serving, you may want to have a glass of champagne, sherry or gin and other lighter wines.
9, napkins can be opened before the meal. After ordering, in the time before the appetizer is delivered to the napkin open, folded inward one-third, so that two-thirds of the flat on the legs, covering the legs above the knee part. It's best not to tuck the napkin into your lapel.
10, dining, upper arms and back to the back of the chair, the abdomen and the table to maintain a distance of about a fist, the best way to avoid sitting with legs crossed.
11, during the meal, do not unbutton or undress in public. If the host asks the guest to broaden his clothes, the male guest can take off his coat and put it on the back of the chair, don't put his coat or carry-on items on the dining table.
12. Do not put on makeup at the table or wipe your nose with a napkin. Hiccups during the meal is the biggest taboo, in case of such a situation, you should immediately apologize to those around you. Do not stand up when taking food, sit down and can not get the food should ask someone else to pass.
13, eating should talk with the guests around, but should avoid loud laughter. Don't just talk to a few acquaintances about the guests if they don't know, you can choose to introduce yourself. Other people's speeches can not talk to interrupt.
14, each time the food into the mouth should not be too much, do not talk when chewing, not to mention the initiative to talk to people.
15, eat chicken, Europeans and Americans are more expensive chicken breast meat. Eat chicken legs should first force the bone off, do not eat with your hands. Eat fish, do not turn the fish, to eat the upper layer of the fish with a knife and fork after picking off the bones and then eat the lower layer of meat, to cut a piece to eat a piece of the block can not be cut too large, or once the meat are cut into pieces.
16, fish meat is very tender and fragile, so restaurants often do not have a knife but a special spoon. These spoons are slightly larger and flatter than the ones used for soup, so you can not only cut up the dish, but also scoop up the dish and the sauce together. For other mixed vegetable dishes, a fork is preferred. To handle fish bones, first stab the fish with a knife in a straight line near the gills; the tip of the knife should not penetrate, but should go halfway in. After picking the top half of the fish apart, starting at the head, place the knife under the bone and cut toward the tail, picking off the bone and moving it to a corner of the plate. Finish by cutting off the tail of the fish.
17, the way to drink. Never suck on your drink, but tilt the glass and drink as if you were putting the wine on your tongue. Shake the glass gently to let the wine come into contact with the air to increase the flavor of the wine, but do not shake the glass violently. In addition, it is rude to drink from the glass and look at people through the glass while drinking. Don't use your fingers to wipe lipstick marks on the rim of the glass, use a Kleenex to wipe better.
18. You can't drink soup by sucking on it. Use a spoon to scoop up the soup from back to front, and place the bottom of the spoon on your lower lip to bring the soup into your mouth. It is better to hold the spoon at a 45° angle to your mouth. Lean forward slightly on the upper part of your body. When there is not much soup left in the bowl, use your fingers to lift the bowl slightly. If the soup is served in a bowl with a grip ring, you can just hold the ring and serve it.
19, the way to eat bread. First use both hands to tear into small pieces, and then use the left hand to bring the principle of eating. Eat hard bread, hand tear not only laborious and crumbs will fall all over the ground, this time the knife can be cut into two halves, and then tear into pieces to eat. Avoid cutting the bread like a saw, you should stab the knife into the other half first. You can use your hand to hold the bread in place while you cut it to avoid making noise.
20, drink coffee if you want to add milk or sugar, add a small spoon to stir evenly, put the small spoon on the coffee plate. Drinking should be right-handed cup handle, left-handed end of the pad plate, directly with the mouth to drink, do not use a small spoon to scoop a spoon to drink. Eat fruit, do not take the fruit to bite the whole, you should first use a fruit knife to cut into four or the main petals and then use a knife to remove the skin, nucleus, eat with a fork fork.
21, how to use the knife and fork. The basic principle is to hold a knife or spoon in your right hand and a fork in your left. If there are more than two, the outermost one should be taken inward. The way to hold a knife or fork is to gently hold the end and press the index finger on the handle. A spoon can be held in the same way as a pen. If you feel uncomfortable, you can switch to holding the fork in your right hand, but changing too often will make you look rude. When eating larger vegetables, use a knife and fork to fold and slice them. Softer foods can be placed on the fork plane and organized with a knife.
22, a little rest, knife and fork arrangement. If you want to put down the knife and fork halfway through the meal to take a break, you should put the knife and fork in the shape of eight in the center of the plate. If the knife and fork protrudes to the outside of the plate, it is not safe and does not look good. Waving your knife and fork around while talking is rude. After the meal, the knife and fork set into the four o'clock direction can be a lot of tableware on the Western table, eat each thing with a specific tableware, take the table knife one to speak, eat Western food, at least three knives, respectively, used to cut cutlets, vegetables and cut the bread, can not figure out how to use the specific use of each piece of cutlery is easy to embarrassing situation, tableware placed in a chaotic way, it's easy to make the hands of cutlery fell on the ground. Chinese people using Western food is an integral part of learning Western culture. This course explains the most basic common sense on the Western dining table, so that you can enjoy the Western dining atmosphere, behave more correctly and decently, and have a meal with the "etiquette".
Step 1: napkin cloth
Western food napkins are generally used cloth, napkin cloth square and flat, elegant colors. Often placed on the lap, in heavy etiquette occasions can also be placed on the chest, the usual relaxed occasions can also be placed on the table, one of the napkin corner is facing the chest, and pressed with a dish. In the process of using the napkin, be careful not to have the following rude behavior:
1. When leaving the table, the napkin cloth dropped on the floor.
2. The napkin is stained or wrinkled.
3. Putting leftover food on the napkin.
4. Wiping the table with a napkin.
Napkins can be used to wipe your mouth or hands, folded diagonally in a triangle or parallel in a rectangle, and stains should be wiped all the way in, so that the exterior always looks neat. When leaving your seat, even temporarily, you should remove the napkin and fold it randomly into a square or triangle on the side of the plate or corner of the table, preferably on your own seat.
Step 2: Knife, Fork and Spoon
The knife, fork and spoon used in Western food have their own purposes and cannot be replaced or mixed.
1. Knife
is used to cut the food, do not use the knife to pick up the food and bring it to your mouth. Remember: hold the knife in your right hand. If there are three different sizes of knives at the same time during a meal, the general correct usage is: the one with the tiny serrated teeth is used to cut meat products; the medium-sized one is used to cut large vegetables into small slices; and the small one, with a rounded tip and a somewhat upturned top, is used to slice small pieces of bread, and then to pick up some jams and creams to spread on top of the bread with it.
2. Fork
Left-handed fork, fork up food to the mouth, the action should be light, pick up the right amount of food into the mouth at once, do not drag and drag a large piece, bite and then put it down, this is very indecent. Fork pick up food into the mouth, the teeth only touch the food, do not bite the fork, and do not let the knife and fork in the teeth or plate sound.
3. Spoon
In formal occasions, there are a variety of spoons, small ones are used for coffee and sweet snacks; flat ones are used for buttering and sharing cakes; larger ones are used for soup or to hold small pieces of food; the largest ones are used for sharing soups in public and are commonly found in buffets. Make no mistake.
Step 3: Placement of cutlery
The cutlery is placed according to the order of serving from the outside to the inside. After some dishes have been used, some of the knives and forks will be removed. The direction and position of the knife and fork are very specific. Forks and knives are placed on the plate in the shape of a figure of eight, with the mouth of the knife facing inward and the fork tines downward, indicating that you want to continue to eat; knives and forks are placed parallel to the plate with the mouth of the knife facing inward and the fork tines upward, indicating that you do not want to eat. The spoon is placed horizontally on the soup plate, with the heart of the spoon upwards, also indicating that the soup utensils can be収走.
Step 4: Elegant Dining
1. When drinking soup
Hold the spoon horizontally and scoop gently from the outside to the inside; don't put the spoon down so hard that the outside of the spoon touches the soup. When you drink, touch the inside of the spoon with your lips, and don't pick up the soup bowl to drink. When the soup is about to be finished, gently lift the inside of the basin with your left hand against your chest, concentrating the soup on the bottom side of the basin, and clear it with the spoon with your right hand. The movement is perfect!
2. When eating pizza or other pastries
Use a knife to cut out a piece of the plate just the right size for a bite, and fork it into your mouth.
3. When eating bread
Hold the bread in one hand and tear off a small piece and put it in your mouth, don't bite the whole bread. When eating Western food, you should be neatly dressed, sit upright, keep your back straight and your neck stretched out. The most important thing is to keep your hands clean and your nails neatly trimmed.
Attachment: foreign dining etiquette
To eat hot water, you need to say Boiled water,
If you say Hotwater, you will be sent warm water.
After entering the door, the usher will guide you to your seat.
For upscale restaurants, larger items should be left in storage, and a small tip should be expected on departure.
When sampling wine, hold up your glass and refuse to drink if it tastes terrible.
Place your napkin on your lap before your drink arrives.
Read the menu from the beginning before ordering, order your drink first and then read it.
When eating bread, tear a small piece at a time with your fingers.
Use the knives and forks lined up in order from the outside to the inside.
If there is a cashier's office, place your tip on the table and leave with the bill.
If the bill includes a service charge, there is no need to tip.
When checking out, wave to the special waiter and say "check please" or write on your palm to indicate this.
Do not make noise while eating.
Chew your food with your mouth closed so that no food is exposed.
When condiments are far away from you, ask your neighbor to do it for you and say "please ......".
Try not to leave the table in the middle of the meal; if necessary, place your napkin on your chair before leaving.
Do not smoke before dessert.
If it's a buffet, please 'live within your means'.
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