FOOD AND NUTRITION   SSS2 THIRD TERM

WEEK 7 – 8

TABLE SETTINGS

CONTENT

There are two types of table services, formal and informal.  Informal service includes those occasions in which the host, hostesses and other members of the group, as well as the waitress or waiter, may participate.  It should be friendly, gracious and simple.  In formal service, the waitress or waiter alone participates.  The host and hostesses take no part.  They only watch to see that the procedure goes smoothly.  This type is dignifying, elegant and elaborate.  It can only be used where there are servants.

COMMONLY ACCEPTABLE TABLE MANNER

1. As a rule, sit down and rise from the left side of the chair at the table.  Do not move the chair unless it is necessary and do not begin any conversation until the grace is said or until you see that it is not to be said.

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