I keep hearing that companies are now investing a lot of money in order to convey (leading) employees binding manners.From me you get a few tips for free.
First point: How much should you work out when choosing your wardrobe?Well, for example, if you want to go to the "Vendôme" in Bergisch Gladbach, I advise you too well -cleaned shoes with dark socks, a shirt that fits the pants and an ironed jacket.You can wear the shirt open, tie no longer has to be.If you want to spice up your outfit with a little skill, a subtle pocket cloth is recommended.
The golden rules for visiting the restaurant
The "golden rule" for all other cases is: Do not encourage others to do what you do not like.If you were uncomfortable to you in dirty snack shoes and with welding edges on your shirt, you know immediately what to do.The fact that certain upscale restaurants still specify a dress code has to do it primarily with the fact that part of the very rich clientele believes that with all of their money I also have the license for bad behavior.It once happened to me in a very good Paris restaurant that stormed a prominent French football professional in T-shirt, jogging pants and sandals around 10 p.m., threw himself at a free table with two companions-and loudly ordered a cola.
A special case are young people in the restaurant.I always experience 13- or 14-year-olds in a hip-hop look and baseball cap that flap in your chair listlessly and half-lying.With the posture notes you could still put an eye on.But headgear doesn't work at all.I have a lot of understanding for identity crises and self -discovery phases.Nevertheless, my well -meaning advice is to all parents: convince your homemade jewel to get a little bit together - or free him/her.I promise you: you will spend a wonderful evening, and the service staff too.
One of the classics at the table is the question: where to go with hands?With the ancient reminder "Put your hands on the table, down with the elbows!" It has a double matter: with an elbow on the table, there is less space on the table, so the rule was created in the Middle Ages that only the hands opened the hands in the Middle Agesshould lay the table.In addition, they then did not need to fear that their neighbors can use the dagger under the table with the dagger.
Today the following applies: until the first drink comes, the elbows may stay on the table, then only the wrists left and right next to the plate - and please until the coffee.Only then can it go a little more relaxed again.There were still the mystery why Americans and English basically put their left hand on the knee at the table and only take the food with the fork in the right hand ... but to clarify this, it seems to me as difficult as a meaningful reason for left-hand traffic.
One last tip: If you have to get up - never turn your back on your accompaniment, but always stay facing.If there are other guests next to or behind them, a short bow to the neighboring table is sufficient.Then you can also present the back and rear part of the guests there - in that case you have no other chance.
Recorded by Joachim Frank
