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What Belongs To Me?
Your Server and You
Ordering 101
Passing Items
Rules, Procedures, and Formalities
100
Everything in your place setting appears between these two table items.
What are your water glass and bread plate.
100
The serving staff is your what during the meal? (Hint: Much like a Sherpa on a mountain)
What is Your Guide
100
This commonly ordered beef dish is probably not the best thing to order when someone else is paying
What is steak
100
Who begins passing an item for the first time?
Who is the person sitting closest to that item.
100
This time honored practice signifies the formal start of the meal
What is placing the napkin in the lap
200
This phrase, made famous in the movie Titanic, offers you the first clue as to what order you will use all of the silverware in a place setting.
What is "start from the outside and work your way in." https://youtu.be/rQIYPYBDPj0?t=2m56s
200
Oh no! I dropped my fork... What do I do?
What is let your server know, as soon as possible.
200
Doing this when you order will not only annoy the kitchen but also your host.
What is make too many requests.
200
When passing these items, they instantly become a married couple and always travel together.
What are salt and pepper
200
These two items are the ONLY two items it is permitted to ask for more of.
What are bread, and drinks
300
If a fork or spoon is placed at the top of the place setting, what delicious course does this signify? (Hint: Usually at the end of the meal)
What is dessert
300
When leaving the table to use the restroom, placing your napkin here is a signal to your server that you will return
What is on the back of your seat
300
This dish is most commonly ordered/served at formal dinners.
What is chicken
300
When passing an item it is customary that the person who begins does what?
What is skip themselves until the item is passed back around to them.
300
When using silverware, what are the two accepted styles?
What is American and Continental
400
This small two or three tine fork signals you will be served a dish containing what?
What is seafood
400
Placing your utensil on your plate at this "time" will signal to your server that you are finished with your meal
What is 3:15
400
When someone else is paying what price range should you order from?
What is the middle
400
Uh Oh! The bread basket has only one piece left, what do I do?
What is leave the last piece and ask the server for more bread.
400
In medieval times this gesture was a threat to your dinner guests, a rule we still honor today.
What is placing the blade of your knife toward your dinner guests.
500
What is the standard number of silverware pieces in a place setting? Name them for bonus points!
What is six. Salad fork, dinner fork, soup spoon, teaspoon, knife, dessert fork or spoon
500
All serving staff should be treated with this common manner
What is respect.
500
Never order a meal containing this slippery food item
What is pasta
500
When passing butter for bread, it is customary to do what with it?
What is put a small pat on your bread plate
500
This is the proper way to remove a piece of food from your mouth in a formal setting.
What is remove it with the same utensil it went in on.