1. Table Setting Guide
INFORMAL PLACE SETTING
This following illustration shows how a table would
be set for the following informal menu:
Soup course
Salad or first course
Entrée
Dessert
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2. INFORMAL PLACE SETTING
a. Dinner plate f. Glasses
b. Two forks g. Salad plate
c. Napkin h. Bread plate with butter knife
d. Dinner knife i. Dessert spoon and fork *
e. Spoons j. Coffee cup and saucer
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3. Table Setting Guide
OTHER THINGS TO REMEMBER:
PROPER EATING
Chew with closed mouth
No talking with food in mouth
No slurping, finger licking, belching or grooming/place
accessories under table or chair
Pass food, salt, and pepper to the right
PROPER POSTURE
No leaning or elbows on the table
Gentlemen wait for Ladies before sitting, standing
or leaving the table
HAND FOOD - It is perfectly acceptable to use your hands to eat:
breads
‘hors doers (cheese & crackers, chicken wings, just to
name a few)
other finger foods (tacos, mini-burgers, egg rolls, just to
name a few) 3
4. COMMON COURTESY
The best way to make sure that you’re “minding your
manners” is to generally use those basic common
courtesies:
Thank you
No thank you
Excuse me
May I
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5. Table skirting is a decorative
method of disguising table legs
by covering the table with a
decorative tablecloth.
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