American business banquet etiquette
1. Seating arrangement
Seating arrangements for formal banquets can be in accordance with international practi
American business banquet etiquette
1. Seating arrangement
Seating arrangements for formal banquets can be in accordance with international practice. The level of the table depends on the distance from the main table, which is high on the right and low on the left. When there are many tables, table cards should be placed. Eat western food at a long table. The height of the deskmate seat depends on the distance from the host seat.
The western custom is that men and women cross, and the hostess's seat shall prevail. The guest of honor sits on the upper right of the hostess, and the wife of the guest of honor sits on the upper right of the host. If a man and a woman are dining in a big restaurant, the man should ask the woman to sit on his right instead of letting her sit in the aisle where people come and go. If there is only one seat by the wall, the lady should be invited to sit, and the man should sit opposite her. If two couples are having dinner, the ladies should sit against the wall and the gentlemen should face their wives. If two men accompany a woman to dinner, the woman should sit among the men. If two people of the same sex eat, the position against the wall should be reserved for the elderly. When entering and leaving the seat, you should walk from the left side of the chair.
2. Seat description
(1) western food serving procedure: usually bread and butter? Cold dish or salad? Soup? Seafood? Main course (steak)? Dessert? Fruit? Coffee or black tea. A formal banquet may be more abundant. Diners should be familiar with the menu, and don't eat it as soon as it comes up, or they will forget it.
(2) Use of napkins: The owner should be the first to spread out napkins after taking a seat or collect napkins before leaving the seat. Napkins can be folded into two layers and spread on the thighs. When you leave the table for a while, the napkin should be placed on the chair, not on the table. Putting them on the table means that you don't want to eat any more, and the waiter won't serve you any more.
(3) Placement of tableware: The tableware used for eating western food includes knives, forks, spoons, plates and cups. Generally speaking, you should use different tableware to eat different dishes and use different cups to drink different wines. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it for a while, and the host can't be wrong. The arrangement of western tableware is that the soup plate is placed in front, the fork is placed in the left hand and the knife is placed in the right hand. Spoons and glasses are placed on the soup plate, napkins are placed on the soup plate or inserted in the glass, and the bread and cream plate is placed on the upper left.
3. Dining etiquette
(1) Knife and fork use: When eating western food, hold a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left hand. First cut the food into pieces with a knife, and then fork it into your mouth. When eating dinner, the number of knives and forks is equal to the number of serving channels, arranged in an orderly manner, and taken in an orderly manner. Eat a dish for a set of knives and forks. When you leave temporarily, should the knives and forks be crossed or arranged? People? Words, to show that has not yet finished eating. If the knife and fork are put together on the plate, the right fork of the knife is on the left and the fork is up, which means you don't want to eat any more.
(2) Diet: Bread should be eaten after soup. It is not appropriate to tear off a piece by hand, spread cream or jam with a knife, hold the whole piece of bread in your hand, fork it with a fork, or soak it in soup. You can't drink soup from a soup plate, you must use a spoon. When eating fish, cut it with a knife and eat it with a fork. When eating meat, cut a piece to eat. You shouldn't cut the whole plate of meat into small pieces before eating. When eating chicken, cut a piece first, and then eat it with a fork. It is impolite to tear it directly by hand. Fishbone or bone can be forked and put on a plate. It is impolite to take it directly with your hands or spit on the table. When eating beans, you can eat them with a fork instead of eating them one by one. You can eat noodles with a spoon and fork, but you can't cut the noodles with a knife before eating. Snacks must be eaten with a fork and can be shoveled with a fork.
(3) Drinks: Smoking is not allowed during dinner in western food, only coffee is served, and smoking is allowed at the end of table banquet. When drinking coffee or tea, if there are cubes of sugar, you should use a special clip (hand clip if there is no clip) instead of taking the cubes with a teaspoon. When drinking coffee or tea, you should pick up the cup and drink it. When drinking, the teaspoon should be placed on the tea tray, not in the cup, nor can it be scooped with a spoon. When drinking, it is best to hold a teacup with a tea tray in one hand to prevent coffee or tea juice from dripping on clothes. When you drink tea, you must put down any food. It will be considered rude to take a sip and eat it alternately.
(4) wine: when eating western food, you can't refuse the toast of the other party. Even if you can't drink, raise your glass in return, touch the other person, and then put it on your mouth to show that you drink. Don't draw by hand. Can't drink or can't drink. It is impolite to drink without moving.
(5) Water Cup: Pay attention to the use of water cups when eating western food. Every kind of food eaten by hand, such as chicken, lobster, fruit, etc. Generally, water cups (copper pots, porcelain bowls, crystal glass jars) containing rose petals or lemon slices are put in water, but they are not drinks. It's a finger washing bowl in western food. Put it on the top left, dip your fingers in water, wash them gently, and then dry them with a napkin.
(6) Eating posture: When eating, it is not advisable to cling to the back of the chair or the dining table. Don't take off your coat, loosen your tie or pull your sleeves repeatedly, and don't eat while smoking. If your hands are dirty, don't wipe them or suck them with your mouth. In short, everything in the meal can be used? There are more silent complaints than vocal complaints? Your image is revealed in your silent every move.
tableware for Western-style food
The tableware of western food includes knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and napkins.
There are vegetable plates, pudding plates, cream plates and white trays. The types of knives are edible knives, fish knives, meat knives, cream knives and fruit knives. The types of forks are edible fork, fish fork, meat fork and shrimp fork. There are spoons, dessert spoons and teaspoons.
1. Placement of tableware
(1) plate. The dinner plate is in the center of other tableware, and napkins or paper are placed on the plate.
(2) Knives, forks and spoons. The knife is placed on the right side of the plate, the blade is inward, the spoon is placed on the right side of the knife, and the center of the spoon is upward. The fork is placed on the left side of the plate with the fork teeth facing up. Generally, only three pairs of knives and forks are put on each table. Never, the blade is wrong, and the knife and fork can't be crossed.
(3) bread knife. The bread plate is placed on the guest's left hand side with a bread knife on it. Bread knife, also called butter knife, is specially used to spread cream and jam, not to cut bread. Do not cross the vertical knife and fork.
(4) cups. There are all kinds of wine glasses and cups on the right.
(5) Tableware order. Tableware should be matched with vegetables and stacked from outside to inside in the order of eating vegetables.
2. Use of tableware
(1) Knife and fork
(1) the role of knife and fork
For a formal western banquet, each table can only put three pairs of knives and forks at most. Knives are used to cut food and forks are used to take the entrance. When eating, you usually take the outermost pair on the left and right first, with a knife in your right hand and a fork in your left hand.
② Type of knife
There are three different sizes of knives. Knives with small serrations are made of meat. Medium size is used to cut large vegetables into small pieces; And use a knife with a round tip and some upturned tips to cut the bun, and then use it to pick some jam and cream and spread it on the bread.
③ Placement of knives and forks
At a formal western banquet, eating a dish usually requires changing a knife and fork; A casual dinner may only use knives and forks from beginning to end. When enjoying western-style dinner, there are mainly three kinds of knives and forks on the table:
One is a knife and fork for eating meat and fish. The knife on the right and the fork on the left are placed vertically on both sides of the plate in front of the diners.
One is a butter knife. Usually placed horizontally in front of the diner's left hand.
One is a dessert knife. Generally placed horizontally in front of diners.
④ Use of knives and forks
Generally speaking, there are two ways to use knives and forks: English and American. One is English, that is, holding a knife in the right hand and a fork in the left hand, and eating with a fork while cutting. The second type is American, that is, first cut all the food on the plate with the right knife and the left fork; Then the knife in the right hand is placed obliquely in front of the plate, and the fork in the right hand is used for eating.
⑤ Use of knives and forks
In western dinners, there will be three pairs of knives and forks on the left and right sides of the plate, which should be taken from outside to inside in turn. Or use it with the owner? Follow the strategy.
⑥ Knife and fork placement form
A. keep eating. Divide the knife and fork into triangles.
B. add meals. Separate the knife and fork, about figure 8.
C. the meal is finished. The knife edge is inward, the fork teeth are upward, and the right fork of the knife is placed side by side vertically, or the knife is placed side by side on the plate.