Eating and ordering etiquette in banquet etiquette

Are there many friends in our daily life who often don't know what to eat? There are too many dishes in the party, which makes them have a phobia of choice. Let me tell you the skills of ordering and eating!

Eating etiquette in banquet etiquette

People in China are generally very particular about eating and eating. With more and more attention paid to workplace etiquette, eating and eating at the business table are also more particular. Take Chinese food as an example to teach you how to be polite and elegant at the dinner table.

At the beginning of a Chinese banquet, the first wet towel given by the waiter is to wipe your hands. Don't use it to wipe your face. When lobster, chicken and fruit are served, a small water lemon with lemon slices or rose petals floating in it is not a drink, but for washing hands. When washing your hands, you can take turns to wet your fingers, rinse them gently, and then dry them with a small towel.

be polite when eating. Don't persuade foreign guests repeatedly, but introduce the characteristics of Chinese food to each other, and it's up to him to eat or not. Some people like to persuade others, and even help them. Foreign guests don't have this habit. If you are polite again and again, maybe people will resent it. I said I wouldn't eat. What do you have to make me do? By analogy, attend a banquet hosted by foreign guests, and don't expect the host to give you food repeatedly. If you wait for someone to serve you food, you'll have to be hungry.

after the guests are seated, don't start eating immediately. Instead, guests should wait for the host to say hello and raise their glasses to signal the start. Guests can't get ahead of their hosts. To be civilized, you should wait for the dishes to turn to yourself before moving chopsticks. Don't grab in front of your neighbor, and it is not advisable to take too many dishes at a time. Chew slowly, which is not only conducive to digestion, but also a etiquette requirement at the table. Never put a large piece in your mouth and wolf it down, which will give people the impression of greed.

don't be picky about food, don't just stare at your favorite dishes, or pile them on your plate in a hurry. The action of eating should be elegant, don't touch your neighbor when picking up food, don't put the food on the table, and don't spill the soup. Don't make unnecessary noises, such as when eating soup? Gollum? In your mouth when eating vegetables? Boo-boom? , this is vulgar.

don't chat with people while eating. Don't spit the bones and fishbones in your mouth on the table. Cover your mouth with a napkin and take them out with chopsticks and put them on a plate. Don't eat the food that has fallen on the table. Don't play with bowls and chopsticks during eating, or use chopsticks to go straight to others. Don't dig in your mouth with your hands. When picking your teeth with a toothpick, cover your mouth with your hand or napkin. Don't let the tableware make any noise.

After eating, you can wipe your mouth with napkins, napkins or small towels sent by waiters, but it is not advisable to wipe your head, neck or chest. Don't burp or belch uncontrollably after meals; The guests can't leave the table before the host signals the end.

the ordering skills of eating etiquette in banquet etiquette

A little food principle: entering a restaurant corresponding to your identity is half the battle

1. First, you should know what grades of restaurants are there and where are the high-end, mid-range and low-end restaurants.

2. First, go to the restaurant to find out the special dishes, tastes and prices.

3. first, evaluate the identity and taste of the guests, choose a suitable restaurant, and important guests must order private rooms.

4. If you want to talk about sensitive topics, be sure to have a private room or a restaurant far away from the guest's life circle.

5. If the customer's identity is high and you want to save yourself, you'd better bring your own drinks.

second order knowledge: how many dishes should I order for dinner?

1. Please ask the guests to choose the dishes first. If the guests humbly give the right to order, the host need not be too reluctant.

2. Order quickly. Don't order for a long time. Ask the guests whether they like the key dishes and taste dishes, and pay special attention not to order dishes that are too spicy or greasy for your taste.

3. Before ordering food, you should first evaluate the budget. Generally, there are one or two more main courses than the guests, and a cold dish and a soup are enough. For particularly greasy dishes, you can usually order one, such as pork ribs with salt and pepper, pork ribs with pork ribs and Dongpo meat. If there are more than four main courses, you can consider fish, chicken or duck and meat, and finally you must have a light dish, such as green vegetables.

4. When ordering food, you only need to order one or two special and high-grade dishes, and it is not necessary for every dish to be expensive.

5. Don't order several dishes of the same type at the same time. If it's meat, it's better to distinguish the types and practices. Pay attention to whether the guests have any taboos? Whether to eat spicy food, whether to be Muslim, whether to be pregnant, whether to take medicine, whether to be allergic to seafood, etc. If there are old people and children, pay attention to some dishes that are not demanding on teeth.

6. After ordering, ask the guests what kind of wine to drink. If you don't want to drink, you can consider some beer or red wine. If you can't drink at all, you can use driving, or it is inconvenient to drink because of work arrangements in the afternoon, or simply say that the company doesn't allow drinking at lunch.

7. Matters needing attention in wine ordering

A. The price of liquor per bottle should not exceed 1/3 of the budget of this meal? 1/2。

B. Pay attention to the collocation with the dishes when drinking red wine, remember? Red wine with red meat and white wine with white meat? The principle of. That is to say, if it is seafood, try to drink dry white, and Chinese food, such as greasy food, is best dry red.

8. If you are visiting a restaurant for the first time, you can ask the waiter to recommend some special dishes, and then choose some home-cooked dishes. It is estimated that the taste will not be much worse.

9, finally order the staple food; Pay attention to the difference between the north and the south. In the north, only pasta is called the staple food. In the south, as long as you can fill your stomach, porridge, rice, noodles, steamed bread and steamed buns are all available. It is also the key to have characteristics.

1. If the meal time is tight, don't order dishes that take time to cook (often expensive main courses). If you are not sure, you can ask the waiter for confirmation.

11. Don't order cheap dishes.

12. Practice your own rhetoric. You can fool a few words when every dish comes up. Are you? Dinner star? Yes! In this way, the order was signed smoothly, the official was promoted quickly, and the waist was not sour at night.

Precautions for ordering food in banquet etiquette

1. Do not eat what you like

Besides taste preference, the first consideration in ordering food is also the collocation of dishes. A table of food is mainly composed of soup, hot dishes and cold dishes, and the raw materials are nothing more than meat (livestock and poultry), seafood (fish, shrimp and crab) and vegetables. The six elements are indispensable, and they must be arranged and combined reasonably to avoid repetition of the same element. If six people have a meal, they can usually order 3-4 cold dishes, 3-4 stir-fried dishes, add a big dish and a soup, and 1-2 snacks are enough. Dishes should emphasize vegetarian food, shade, dryness and wetness, and a variety of cooking methods, and the raw materials should not be repeated as much as possible. For example, if you choose old duck pot for soup, hot dishes and cold dishes can focus on dishes with fish or vegetables as the main raw materials; If you choose a fish soup, there is no need to order fish or other seafood. Even if you like sweet and sour dishes again and order sweet and sour fish, don't choose pineapple sweet and sour meat again?

2. Don't just pay attention to the special dishes recommended on the menu

Even if you don't know what to order, you can only choose one of the special dishes recommended by the restaurant, and the rest depends on your own taste, otherwise a table will be a series and taste of dishes (such as spicy dishes). From the psychological analysis of food consumption, one or two dishes can leave a good impression on you every time you eat, and you will feel satisfied. Don't expect all the dishes to impress you.

3. Be aware of the price

Fear of slaughter when ordering food is a common psychology of guests. When ordering food, you can master a principle. Except for vegetables, it is normal for chicken, duck and fish dishes to be 1-1.5 times more expensive than the food market, unless they are special dishes and dishes with very exquisite workmanship, they will kill people if they are more than twice as expensive. Because the hotel's accounting method is to double the gross profit on the cost, and the cost only includes the main materials, auxiliary materials and seasonings (including fuel at most), nothing else can be calculated as the cost. The gross profit of vegetables is allowed to be higher because of the low price. For the menu marked? Current price? Two words, advise you not to touch it. The special dish of the day specially launched by the store must be the main point. Specials are usually sold by restaurant owners to attract old customers? Losing money? .

4. Don't listen to all the waiters.

For new guests, the waiters are always happy to provide ordering guidance. You just need to listen to the specialty of the store, which dish sells best, and what the taste and price are. For the one recommended by the waiter repeatedly and enthusiastically, it is best to avoid it, and there are often ghosts. For example, a batch of live shrimps that were purchased one or two days ago died out on the third day. If they can't all be sold as vegetables that day, the remaining raw materials will go bad and be thrown away the next day. Some bosses will take special promotions and post them in restaurants? Water tag? In fact, the waiters are extremely exhausted when the guests order? Temptation? Even the waiter can sell a shrimp dish and get a bonus of several yuan from the boss when he turns around.

5, the more? Home? Yue? Cheating?

what about scrambled eggs with tomatoes and shredded potatoes in vinegar? National home cooking? I believe many people will order. These two dishes seem to save money, but in fact they have the biggest profit margin. For example, a plate of vinegar-fried shredded potatoes in 12 yuan in a restaurant probably needs two medium-sized potatoes, weighing about 1 kg. At present, the market price of potatoes is about 2 yuan/kg, and the cost of a plate of shredded potatoes is about 2% or 2% if cooking oil and seasonings are included. Therefore, choosing middle-priced dishes in restaurants is the most cost-effective.

6. It's best to drink less soup

Usually, soup in restaurants contains 1? 2 grams of salt. After two bowls of soup, you may have eaten 5 grams of salt. Pork ribs soup, chicken soup and other meat soups contain a lot of fat and cholesterol. If you must drink it, you'd better choose it before meals, so as to reduce your appetite and avoid taking in extra salt. Or order tofu soup, tomato and egg soup and other home-cooked soups. If it is a banquet, you can order tremella soup and so on.

7. Cold dishes: Vegetarian dishes play the leading role

Many people habitually place cold dishes such as sauce beef and thousand layers of crispy ears to appetize. In fact, choosing some refreshing vegetarian cold dishes can balance the problem of too much oil in the main course and too much protein. Vegetables such as raw mix and dipping sauce, and cold dishes with high starch content such as fern root powder and yam are all good choices. These refreshing foods can ensure the intake of dietary fiber, potassium and magnesium in a meal, and can also prevent protein from being wasted as energy.

eight, four? Pay attention?

when browsing the menu, pay more attention to four methods: steaming, boiling, stewing and mixing. This cooking method can not only keep nutrition, but also reduce fat content and calories. Try to order less dishes that contain the words fried, fried, or griddle. Especially dry stir-fried vegetables, the traditional method is to stir-fry with a small amount of oil for a long time, but now most restaurants directly fry with a large amount of oil to save trouble, which not only makes vitamins lost, but also destroys nutrients such as protein, starch and fat, and even produces carcinogens.