16 common mistakes restaurant visitors

Going to the restaurant - it's not only delicious meals and socializing with friends. It's a real experience, it requires knowledge of etiquette, good manners and respect for others. You may not even notice that behave completely ignorant at the table. You may have wondered what you do not. I suggest to get acquainted with the 17 most common mistakes that allow guests of the restaurant.





1. You can not start eating before the waiters finished serving dishes and all the guests sit at the table





2. Departing from the devices with the outside, lying at a distance from the edge plates





3. Do not place objects on the table, non-food





4. do not salt and peppers dish before you try it
It will be perceived as an insult to the cook





5. Do not rub the wooden sticks each other
This gesture would be seen, if you are in doubt as sticks.





6. Properly put cutlery on the plate





7. Do not put sticks in the bowl - is a violation of etiquette





8. How to eat soup



9. Do not stick chopsticks vertically into food
It refers to an offering to the dead in East Asia





10. If you have already started the meal, the partings can not be put on the table, only





11. It is impossible to pass the salt and pepper separately
According to the rules of etiquette, they are transmitted together.





12. How have the lobster



13. Do not share food with chopsticks
It symbolizes the Japanese funeral ritual. If you want to share a meal, just put it on a free plate.





14. Informal serving.





15. Official serving





16. Do not forget to leave a tip





It is believed that the amount of the tip should be at least 10% (20% for the United States) of the total order. If you do not like a dish, the waiter let us know about it immediately. Perhaps he could somehow resolve the issue. And, of course, do not forget to leave a tip.