Table Manners and Etiquette

What should you do before sitting at the table?

• Wash your clothes

• Wash your hands

• Touch a dog

Where should you place your napkin?

• On the table

• Under your chair

• On your lap

If you get up from the table during a meal, what do you do with a napkin?

• Put it on the table

• Give it to someone else at the table

• Put it on your chair

To eat soup, you should do all of the following except...

• Pick up the bowl and drink the soup

• Wait to eat your soup until everyone is served

• Fill the spoon about half full and bring it up to your mouth

When you are served food, what should you say?

• "Cool!"

• "Thank you"

• "Gross!"

If you finish eating before others at the table, you may do the following...

• Politely wait until everyone is done and ask to be excused

• Tell others to hurry up and finish

• Play with your uneaten food

What should you do if you are served something you do not like?

• Shove it away from you

• Take a polite bite

• Offer it to someone else at the table

When you need to use the restroom, you should?

• Run out of the room

• Announce to the table that you need to use the bathroom

• Say, "excuse me."

What should you do if you need something from across the table?

• Get up and get it

• Reach across the table

• Ask for someone to pass it

• Pass your plate and tell someone to serve you

If the bread basket is in front of you, you should...

• Take a piece for yourself

• Take as much as you want

• Throw everyone a piece of bread

• Take a piece and pass the basket