Don’t host a restaurant meeting where you haven’t been before
If you have a business meeting or a special event in your life and you are the host, you have to know another important rule: namely that you should never take them somewhere you haven’t been before. Before organizing a restaurant meeting, you have to make sure that the food is actually good, what to recommend if they ask and how you will be treated there.
“They always give you the worst table if they don’t know you,” says Napier-Fitzpatrick. “Fine dining in general, if you’re taking someone, you want to know the restaurant. If you’re just going with friends to try the newest, hottest restaurant, that’s totally different.”
You don’t know what to do with your Napkin
I think that this is one of the most common fears of people going to a fancy restaurant for the first time: they don’t know what to do with their napkin.
So, according to Napier-Fitzpatrick, it’s simpler than you think, but you have to follow these steps: “It goes on your lap only after the host puts it on his lap. It never goes back on the table until the host or we all say we’re ready to get up from the table. If you go to the restroom, you just put it on the chair. If there is an arm, you can put it on the arm, but otherwise, it goes on the seat of the chair. Dab your mouth, not wipe it.”
