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Manners @ The Table: A Modern Guide to Dining Etiquette
- 14 video lessons
- 30 minutes of class content
- Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
- 100% satisfaction guarantee
The place where our manners are really put to the test is at the table. Eating a meal with others is a veritable minefield of potential blunders and gaffes, so if you’re planning to dine with work colleagues, superiors or clients, it’s wise for you to be fully versed in dining etiquette.
This course covers the fundamentals of table manners, addressing everything from place settings to holding utensils, good posture to appropriate conversation. Business dinners and power lunches are where so many key decisions are made and relationships are formed. So it’s imperative that you go in ready to impress and avoid unforced errors.
In this class, you’ll learn how to:
- Navigate a menu and wine list and order the right thing.
- Hold utensils properly and understand the differences between American and Continental styles.
- Deal with specific courses in the meal, from bread and butter to soup and salad.
- Have good posture, eye contact and appropriate gesturing.
- Handle it if you don’t like what you’ve ordered.
- Toast your host or guest of honor.
- End a meal properly and know when you can leave the table.
Course Instructor
Daniel Post Senning
Daniel Post Senning is the great-great grandson of Emily Post and a co-author of Emily Post’s Etiquette, 19th edition and The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 3rd edition. He is also the author of Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online.
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Thank you Daniel. I found this short course very informative in a nice, light, and fun way! I've done ok over the decades after watching this (thanks for instilling some good habits mom), but of course I learned lots I didn't know also. I wish I could have watched this course long ago to relieve nervousness at posh 5 star restaurants, and/or at dinner with posh hosts or someone's parents :) I caught this on free stream day, but have added it to my wishlist and will eventually buy it for occasional refresher! Great Course!
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Great, short class! It covers the basic strokes of table manners. I’d have liked to see more coverage of fork usage, especially with tricky foods like feathery salad greens and rice.
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now I know more of manner than mum
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I found this class to be a great refresher course on dining etiquette as well as learning a few new things I was unaware of such as the proper way to share a dessert while dining out. However, I did find it odd that Daniel is seen licking his fingers in the dessert segment. Maybe times have changed and it's acceptable to lick your fingers at the table while dining out, but I think if Aunt Emma were with us today, she would disapprove of Daniel licking his fingers at the table. Of course, that's just my opinion.
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Succinct and well-explained. Learned a few useful things.
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Simple, Clear, and some helpful memory devices. Thumbs up.
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Daniel Post Senning offers a succinct and easy to follow course. I highly recommend!
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At 0:09, he didn't pull out the chair for the lady. Tsk, tsk!
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It is a quick, easy way to refresh your table manner. Perhaps, there are also a few new things to be learned as well.
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This class is such a simple and refreshing course. I really enjoyed what he had to say, and he gives easy to use tips and tricks through out.
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Daniel's course provides an excellent overview of the essentials of dining etiquette. The content is contemporary and reflects the more relaxed atmosphere that prevails in most dining situations today. I would definitely recommend this course to a friend looking to review the basics of dining etiquette.
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