The first is to line up for food. While the buffet requires the diner to take care of himself, this does not mean that he can do whatever he wants to do. In fact, in the dining sampling, because the diner often come in groups for the sake of, we must consciously maintain the public **** order, pay attention to first come first served, queuing up to choose the food. Do not allow crowded, grabbing, adding to the queue, not to mention not allowed to line up. Before taking food, prepare a food plate. When it is your turn to pick up food, you should put the food into your own plate with a common utensil and then leave quickly. Do not hesitate in front of a large amount of food. You should not keep the people behind you waiting, and you should not pick and choose what you want to eat, even if you have to use your own utensils to get it.
The second thing is to take the food in order. In the buffet, if you want to eat well, then in the specific take dishes, you must first understand the reasonable order of taking dishes, and then step by step. According to common sense, to participate in the general buffet, take the standard order of dishes, in order should be: cold dishes, soup, hot dishes, snacks, desserts and fruit. Therefore, when taking food, it is best to first turn around in the whole field, to understand the situation, and then go to take food. If you do not understand this reasonable order of taking food without the back, and in taking food completely on their own, messy loaded mess eat a pass, will inevitably put the cart before the horse, salty and sweet, so that he ate neither smooth and uncomfortable. For example, in the buffet, desserts, fruits should be the "finale", the last now eat. But if you do not abide by this rule, for the sake of fresh, and the first to eat a dessert, fruit, then immediately will be full, and wait until later to see what they want to eat the good stuff, it is likely that they will be more than enough, and have to "look at the ocean and sigh".
Thirdly, it is important to keep within your means. Participate in the buffet, encountered their favorite things to eat, as long as they will not be bad, can be completely free to eat. Unlimited number of guaranteed supply, in fact, this is what makes the buffet popular place. Therefore, business people to participate in the buffet, you can not worry about other people laugh at themselves, love to eat what, just go to eat is it. However, it should be noted that, according to my tastes in the selection of food, must be measured. Do not want to eat in order to enjoy, and the food will be wildly take a pass, the result is their "high hand low", do not from the heart, which led to a waste of food. Strictly speaking, when enjoying a buffet, it is permissible to eat more, but wasting food is absolutely not allowed. This is known to the world as the "take less" principle of buffet dining. Sometimes it is also called the "take less each time" principle.
Fourth, it is necessary to take more than one dish. In the buffet to comply with the "take less" principle, but also must comply with the principle of "many times". "Many times" principle, is "many times to take food" principle of short. Its specific meaning is: the diner in the buffet to choose a certain type of food, allowing them to go again and again and again to get. Each time should only take a small amount, and after tasting it, if you think it is suitable for you, then you can go to take it again until you feel that you have eaten well. In other words, this principle means that it doesn't matter how many times you take a dish from the buffet, it's permissible to add to it again and again. On the other hand, if you take too much at one time to save time and fill your plate too much, as Ms. Jane Chow did, it is a rude act that will make others stare. The principle of "many times" and the principle of "take less" are in fact two different sides of the same coin. "Multiple times" is about living within one's means, and "take less" is about avoiding waste. Therefore, the two are often referred to together as the principle of "take as much as you can". People who eat buffet know that when choosing dishes, it is best to choose one for yourself at a time. After you have eaten, you can then go back to the other varieties. If you don't know how to do this, when you pick up the dishes in a mess, will be a variety of dishes together, resulting in a mixture of flavors, each other taste, it will inevitably be a waste.
Fifth, is to avoid take-out. All the buffet, regardless of whether it is to treat the guests by the host personally organized buffet, or open for business in the formal restaurant operated by the buffet, there is an unwritten rule, that is, the buffet is only permitted to eat dry in the dining site to enjoy themselves, and absolutely not allowed to carry each other home after the meal. Business people must remember this when attending a buffet. No matter how much to eat during the meal is not a problem, but do not sneak into their pockets, purses packed some of their "favorite things", and do not ask the waiter for their "packing". That kind of behavior, will certainly make oneself laugh at others.
Sixth, is to send back the tableware. In the buffet, since the emphasis on the diner to self-help-oriented, then the diner in the whole process of dining, we must keep this in mind, and seriously put into action. Emphasis on self-help in the buffet, not only require diners to take dishes to self-help as the main, but also require them to start and finish, after the meal, consciously send the tableware to the designated place. In general, most buffets require diners to organize their own tableware and return it to the designated place after finishing their meal and before leaving the dining site. This is especially true for buffets on the patio or in the garden. You are not permitted to leave tableware lying around, or even to destroy it in any way. If you are seated in a restaurant, it is sometimes possible to leave the dishes on the table when you leave, and the waiter is responsible for cleaning them up. However, it is advisable to tidy them up a little before leaving. Do not leave your table in a mess. If there is any food left over, do not throw it away, dump it, or hide it, but put it in a proper place.
The seventh is to take care of others. Business people to participate in the buffet, in addition to their own behavior during the meal to be strictly constrained, but also for others to live in harmony, more care. For their companions, especially need to be concerned about, if the other side is not familiar with the buffet, may wish to briefly introduce it. If the other party is willing to do so, you can also make some specific suggestions about the selection of dishes. You should also be considerate of acquaintances you meet at the buffet. However, do not take it upon yourself to take food directly for the other person, and do not allow yourself to "handle" food that you do not like or cannot eat for the other person. In the course of a meal, you should be courteous to other people you don't know. In the queue, take food, find a seat and action during the other diners should take the initiative to be humble, do not ignore, rude.
Eighth, is to actively socialize. Generally speaking, to participate in the buffet, business people must be clear, eating is often a secondary thing, and with other people to carry out appropriate social activities is their most important task. This is especially true when attending a buffet sponsored by a business entity. Therefore, you should not use the excuse that you are socially inept to just hide in a quiet place and eat, or to come and eat and leave without making any kind of positive contact with the other people present. When attending a buffet, it is important to take the initiative to look for opportunities to actively socialize. First, you should look for opportunities to chat with the host, and second, you should catch up with old friends. Finally, you should try to make a few new friends.
At the buffet, the main form of socializing is a few people get together to talk. In order to expand your social circle, it is worthwhile to change a few similar circles in the meantime. Just in each social circle, more or less always have to stay for a while, can not just stay on a minute or two immediately left, as if the dragonfly dabbing water in general. Involved in unfamiliar social circle, generally there are three methods. First, is to request the master or the circle of people introduced. The second is to look for opportunities to join. The third is to introduce yourself.
The subtle difference between a buffet and a cold dinner buffet: all seasons are suitable, the style of food is mainly cold dishes, meat and vegetables. The proportion of hot dishes can be adjusted according to seasonal changes and guest requirements. These dishes are beautifully shaped, hygienic and refreshing, with a variety of tastes and textures, and you can taste the flavorful snacks and unique local flavors. Buffet is generally suitable for group parties and elegant receptions, and is a good place for communication and exchange of views. Guests can freely combine and move around to choose their favorite food. Cold meal will be: cold meal will be basically the same form with the buffet. Cold meal will be basically elegant, unique flavor of cold dishes, drinks, low alcohol-based, not to eat for the main purpose, it is usually applicable to receptions, press conferences and so on. Set meal: Set meal is to each guest's eating standard, according to the specifications of the banquet, the combination of dishes to reflect. It is not limited by the number of people, each person a set, therefore, the set meal is also called a meal system. In the set meal guests can choose according to their own consumption standards to suit their own tastes in the combination of the set meal, this food is both convenient and hygienic. Set meal combination principle, is according to the guest's dining standards, to develop different specifications, different flavors, different textures of the dishes to meet the requirements of the guests to eat.
A new understanding of buffet
Buffet a delicate pot of rice buffet is a modern metropolis of people's favorite collective behavior, because it can save a lot of trouble ordering, as well as the food of thought courtesy of the false set, more importantly, "cost-effective", out of a price, in the shortest possible time and a limited space can be tasted in all kinds of food. This is probably related to the nature of human restlessness, and the modern metropolis people's quick success and quick profit mentality. No wonder buffets are so popular nowadays.
To put it bluntly, the buffet is actually a potluck, a kind of exquisite potluck, as popular today, a kind of modified casual dress, in fact, both are American culture, the same only to pay attention to the constraints of the trouble-free comfort, focus on the results, do not pay attention to the process.
Yes, the world does have a lot of food so that we want to taste a mouthful, but sometimes too many choices rather than make us tired, to a variety of food stations around the circle, into the plate is only a few flavors of their own tastes have always been. The most typical buffet is the "eat the bowl, look at the pot" mentality. Would rather not finish the rest, but also do not want to underestimate the capacity of their own stomach. Eat buffet often a large group of people first choose one of the closest to the food table, there are insiders to inspect the environment, and then come to the tip-off --- the most cost-effective value for money is coming out, we must act together to fight the war of annihilation, regardless of their own favorite things, fishing to the plate and then say, buffet is the amount of begging, "cost-effective" is everything. Buffet once in a while does not hurt the spleen and stomach, otherwise it is down on the appetite, especially those companies corporate annual meeting of the large buffet, everyone at the same time crowded to the food table, thousands of troops, some people meanly described as "grab more rice of the wild brats," the long slowly moving queue is also a bit like the old Shanghai congee shed in front of the queue.
A person is not convenient to eat buffet - although a person is most suitable for buffet - because no one for you to guard your belongings; two men and women who first met should not eat buffet, because a person to get food a person to stay to look at things, the two people always have to cross the seat away from the not quite suitable for fine stew slow fire to cultivate the mood; is committed to losing weight is also not a buffet, because of the temptation is too great; Families celebrating happy days, friends gathering is the most suitable buffet --- we can not be constrained to pick their own food without having to take into account the tastes of others. Buffet in English for Buffet, the original meaning is cold dinner, cocktail party. World War II, the buffet form was widely introduced into the U.S. military rear quarters of the military canteen, its content has greatly exceeded the scope of the cocktail party snacks, the development of the main course, desserts, hot soups, etc. for the selection of the form of dining. After the war, the American style has become a form of consumption of solicitations, this American buffet with some world-class chain of five-star hotels to Hong Kong Southeast Asia and other places, and was widely introduced to come in, in recent years in Shanghai has also become a fashionable food culture.
I still remember the late seventies buffet just in Shanghai small lotus only showed the tip of the corner, long-term material poverty, shallow small vision of the Shanghai people made a fool of themselves: hot cold salty and sweet loaded with a basin full of waiter too late to put on the food table purple ice cream, has been snatched up ...... today, when this batch of Shanghainese Today, the next generation of Shanghainese, has learned to enjoy the buffet with ease, which is also considered a progress of urban civilization. In fact, the buffet is very fool our stomach, as McDonald's and KFC. Its greatest merit is that it can be used by urbanites to digest the culture of various countries with the most primitive instincts - from Korean barbecue to Japanese cuisine, from Indonesian satay to Cantonese barbecue, all can be tasted in the same buffet. Only the French and the veteran Shanghainese don't do that. They would rather accept the need to enjoy a meal under the constraints, from the painstaking ordering to the dishes on the table, which are carefully thought out and arranged, although not the delicacies of the sea, but from the cold pots to the finale of the dessert, there is a subtle sense of hierarchy, not as direct as the buffet --- everything is clearly in front of you. The buffet is a big hit, but in the end, it can not replace the traditional way of dining.