Basis rules of manner Dos: 1. Wash your hands before eating. You should wash your hand before sitting at a table and after eating is very important. Cleanliness not only establishes you as an organized person, but also shows respect toward food. 2. Men help women to put their chair. Men should help women while position their chair first when sitting and when leaving the dining table, because women always do anything first (ladies first). 3. Place your napkin on your lap. After you take a seat, open the napkin and place it in your lap. The function of napkin are it can protect your trousers from a spill, and to removed food from your mouth after eating. After eating you have to put your napkin on the table because, it is the signal when eating is finished. 4. Turn the cell phone off. Phone and other devices should not be used at the dining table. Busy with your phone when you are eating is very impolite. So, you should turn off your cell phone, but if you have to attend an urgent phone call you can ask permission to be excused from the table. You can live without cell phone in your hand for the moment. 5. Say thank you. Most important thing is that you should thanks for invited and complement the host for food, service and atmosphere. There are some basics table manners: Donts: 1. Do not begin to eat until everyone is served. Begin to eat before everyone is served is very impolite. So, wait until the host/hostess served. You eat only from your plate not from the other guest plate. Match your duration/pace with everyone else so you do not finish your food too early or too late from the others. 2. Do not talk when your mouth is full. Dinner conversation is important in the U.S. you should take part in that conversation but, talking with the food in the mouth is seen as very rude. If you want to say something, swallow the food in your mouth and then say. 3. Do not “slurp” your food. Slurping (hold your bowl up) is very impolite in table manner because, it will make Americans shocked by ‘the weird noise’. 4. Do not use toothpicks on the table. Please remember that Americans do not use toothpicks at the table. A toothpick is a disgusting sight in dining table. When food is caught between the teeth that is annoying or uncomfortable, wait to remove it privately such as in the toilet. 5. Do not belch and farting. Belch and farting at the table is very impolite but as human we can’t endure it. But if you belch and farting when you are eating, you can say “I’m sorry” to all guests because you make them disgusted.

1. H0W TO GET A GOOD TABLE
MANNER?
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3. WHAT IS TABLE MANNER?
Table manners are the rules
of etiquette used while eating

4. What you should do:
Wash your hands before eating
Men help women to put their chair
Place your napkin on your lap
Turn the cell phone off
Say thank you

5. What you shouldn’t do:
Do not begin to eat
until everyone is served
Do not talk when your
mouth is full
Do not “slurp” your
food
Do not use toothpicks
on the table
Do not belch and
farting