Dinner

• Dinners are great ways to spend time with your friend and meet new people.

• Dinner is more formal than usual meals.

Business lunch and dinner

• In business it is important to connect with people. Lunch and dinner are good ways to get to know the client.

• Host usually buys a meal for the client in a restaurant that they have chosen.

• When eating you must remember the proper etiquette for the situation.

Hosted dinner• Thank host for the invite.

• Remember to tell if you can´t come.

• Inform the host if you have allergies or special diet.

• Dress for the situation. If there is no special dress code in the invite, use your sense.

• When meeting shake hands with the host.

• Small talk

- Be prepared to discuss the host country.

- Avoid religion and highly personal topics.

• Remember to thank the host after dinner.

Eating and drinking• Follow your host’s lead.

• Order something suitable for the moment.- How many courses are you going to eat?

- What other people are going to eat?

- Lunch or dinner?

• Eat what is offered and when it´s offered.

• Hold fork in your left hand and knife in right.

• Keep both hands above the table.

• Use utensils from the outside in.

• When you finish place utensils parallel to each other resting diagonally at the 10 and 4 position with the knife blade facing in.

• Rest position is an inverted V with tines down

Dinner broadly

1. Toast

2. Sitting to the table

3. Host’s welcoming speech

4. First course

5. Main course

6. Speech(?)

7. Dessert

Don´t do this:

• Reach for things in the table, ask person sitting next to you can he/she give it to you.

• Clank your chair or utensils against the plate.

• Cough towards the table or other people.

• Eat before everyone else has their servings.

• Leave the table in the middle of the dinner or before you are allowed to.