10 Things You Should Never Do at a Fancy Restaurant

Don’t place used utensils on the table

When you use a utensil to take a bite of food, you should never place it on the table. They have to be placed just on your plate. 

“They are to be placed on the plate in a specific manner and specific time,” says Parker Geiger, CEO of personal branding company, Chuva Beyond. “If you are pausing in-between bites, then place your fork and knife, parallel to each other on either side of the plate (fork on right and knife on left).”

When you are finished eating you have to place the cutlery in a certain way, namely “in the four-o’clock position.”

 

Don’t arrive starving

Yes, it’s true: we usually go to the restaurant to eat, but it seems that at a fancy restaurant the dishes are smaller than usual, because they are based on the experience of taste, not on quantity. They are usually cooked by a famous master chef and you should enjoy your meal without eating too much. 

So, the best solution is not to go to a meeting starving. Nevertheless, sometimes you can wait a long time until the food is ready, because – again – the emphasis is on the atmosphere and the event per se.