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 is an appropriate time to take a drink?

• When your mouth is empty

• While you're chewing

• While you're talking

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."

If someone asks you a question while your mouth is full of food, you should...

• Answer them right away, even with food still in your mouth

• Ignore the question

• Hold up your index finger to indicate "wait a minute" and once you are done chewing/swallowing, then answer the question.