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Table Manners and Etiquette

This document discusses the importance of etiquette and table manners. Table manners are important as they prevent making a mess, demonstrate respect for those who prepared the meal, and show politeness to those eating together. Some tips for good table manners include washing hands before eating, keeping phones off the table, using utensils correctly, eating slowly with your mouth closed, waiting to drink until finished chewing, using a napkin, and facing fellow diners. Social decorum refers to controlled, calm, and polite behavior that is appropriate to create respect, relationships, opportunities, and lasting positive impressions.

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Table Manners and Etiquette

This document discusses the importance of etiquette and table manners. Table manners are important as they prevent making a mess, demonstrate respect for those who prepared the meal, and show politeness to those eating together. Some tips for good table manners include washing hands before eating, keeping phones off the table, using utensils correctly, eating slowly with your mouth closed, waiting to drink until finished chewing, using a napkin, and facing fellow diners. Social decorum refers to controlled, calm, and polite behavior that is appropriate to create respect, relationships, opportunities, and lasting positive impressions.

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Table Manners and

Etiquette
Manners – are behaviour that
reflect a persons attitude.

Etiquette – is a code of conduct and a


set of societal rules that acts as a catalyst
for positive human interactions.
Importance of Table Manners
1. It prevents you from
making too much of a mess.

2. It also demonstrates that


you respect the people who
prepared the meal and will
clean up afterward.
3.Practice table manners shows
the people that you are eating
with that you are polite
*TABLE MANNERS TIPS
1.Wash up and come to the table
clean.
2.Keep your phone off the table.
3.Hold utensils correctly.
4.Eat slowly and cut only a few
small.
5.Chew with your mouth closed.
*TABLE MANNERS TIPS
6. Wait until you’re done cleaning
to sip or swallow a drink.
7. Remember to use your napkin.
8. Face yourself with fellow diners.
9. Keep your elbow off the table
DECORUM IN SOCIAL
GATHERING

*Decorum – behavior that is controlled,


calm and polite.

*Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


BASIC GOOD MANNERS

1. Use people’s names


2. Be interested in others
3. Say Hello
4. Say Thank you
5. Be gracious
6. Put others in the spotlight
7. Look at the persons who is
speaking to you
Examples of Lack of
Decorum
1.Failure to dress properly
2.Untidy eating habits
3.Offensive language
gestures
4.Deterioration in personal
hygiene
Effects Social Decorum
on People
1.Earn respect and appreciation
2.Builds lifelong relationship reliance
3.Creates fruitful opportunities
4.It can help create lasting impressions
that establish trust and
THANK YOU 

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