Elegant Dining & Entertaining
DINE WITH SOPHISTICATION & STYLE!
Are you confident at a formal table? Be at ease as a guest or a host. Glide through formal social occasions with perfect confidence. Polish your dining skills. Dine with style and grace.
Your success in the social arena demands flawless table etiquette.
A sample of topics covered may include:
- Social entertaining
- Planning for the event
- Working with your caterer
- Host/Hostess responsibilities
- Meeting your guests
- Reception & receiving lines
- American & Continental dining
- China, crystal & silverware savvy
- The silent service code
- Serving, clearing & passing food
- When to begin eating
- How to hold various glasses
- Soup etiquette
- Speaking with your server
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- Seating charts
- Buffet Etiquette
- Bread & butter etiquette
- The art of conversation
- French & Russian Service
- Toasting
- When food spills
- Napkin etiquette
- Selecting wine
- Finger bowls
- Leaving the table
- Difficult to eat foods
- Sommelier Etiquette
- Do’s & don’ts of dining
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Women’s groups and conference planners love this workshop for spouse and companion programs.
Let us customize a hands-on dining tutorial luncheon or dinner and a First Impressions Workshop for your group.
First Impressions Workshop
YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION!
Are you noticed when you walk into a room? Do you stay in the corner, or by the buffet? Make a great first impression and have people come over and introduce themselves to you.
Manners for Business™ shares the secrets of successful mingling. Interact confidently, communicate more effectively and become the star of your own show.
A sample of topics covered may include:
- Have a plan before you walk in
- Making an entrance
- How to mingle like a pro
- Get people to approach you first
- Small talk made easy
- Make introductions – Who says what?
- Remembering names quickly
- Cocktail party strategies
- Connect with the right people
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- The art of the handshake
- Escaping a conversation
- Who is on the guest list?
- Buffet blunders
- Parts of the room to avoid
- Foods to avoid
- Relationship building
- Powerful eye signals
- How do I look?
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Women’s groups and conference planners love this workshop for spouse and companion programs.
Let us customize a First Impressions Workshop and a hands-on dining tutorial luncheon or dinner for your group.
