Business Dinner Etiquette: Proper Manners for Dining with Clients
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Dining out can be so revealing of one's character that many companies make it part of their onboarding process before or when they hire you. It shows how well you can maintain a conversation, how will you fit in socially with your boss, your team, and how you can navigate basic etiquette.
No matter where you are, a business lunch or dinner always has a host. If you go out with your superior, your boss chooses the restaurant, as well as the time. If you're just going out with colleagues because you're hungry, there may not be a host necessarily unless, of course, you want to pick their brain then you become the host and you invite them. The same is true vice versa. If someone wants to network with you or understand how you can help them and they approach you, then they become the host. In that case, just go along or answer the questions. If you are the host, on the other hand, do your homework and know who your guest is.
When you pick a restaurant, don't choose anything that's overly loud or crowded because after all, the main goal is to have a conversation. In the same vein, don't choose a restaurant that focuses on sloppy or difficult to eat foods. It is essential to make a reservation because nothing makes you look as unprofessional as having to wait for a table because you didn't take any precautions.
Where exactly should you sit? Obviously, there's a table but especially with bigger parties, there can be large tables and specific hierarchies. It's easiest when you're the guests. Just wait until the host tells you where to sit. In case you're not offered a seat, wait until your host sits and put yourself in a position that allows for easy conversation. In general, the person highest up on the food chain gets the best seat and so forth. So sometimes, just the place where you sit at the table can indicate if you're a big shot or not.
A good host will always introduce new parties to each other. In a business setting, that means you mention their name, as well as their position and what they do. If on top of that, you happen to know more information about those two people, you can share that as well which gives them a common conversation starting point.
Dress appropriately. As a basic rule to a business dinner or lunch, you should wear the same things you wear to the office. Of course, if it's a more formal business dinner in a nice restaurant, you can dress up more but in some cases, it's not advisable to dress better than your boss because he might get offended. On the other hand, if it's an important client meeting, you want to dress up through the usual standard. O
Don't show up ravenous and don't try to eat as much food as you can if someone else pays for you. Of course, hunger can get the best of anyone so if you know you're hungry and you have to talk a lot, maybe eat something in advance.
Greet everyone involved with a handshake and smile. Yes, everyone, not just the boss or higher-ups but everyone from the top all the way down. It's very important that you stand up when you're doing it, otherwise, it just feels and looks sloppy.
Mind your table manners. You don't want to look like a pig and you also don't want other people to end up with your soup on their face.
It's time to order, do so carefully. That means, don't order the most expensive dish on the menu and if you are the guest, you can always follow the lead of your host. Never order more courses than your host because that may look like you're abusing their generosity.
If you go out with colleagues for lunch,
Now, what about the tipping in servers? Tipping can hugely depend on the culture you're in and so it pays to know in advance what to do, when, and where, and what the usual amount of tip is. - Jak na to + styl
I went to the Culinary Institute of America and was trained in formal dining room service. We learned all of this and more! I now live in Idaho and formal dining is nearly unheard of. Only one up scale restaurant and dressing up means polishing your cowboy boots! I really like it but would like a bit more formal dining. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the pin!
Pulling the server aside to tell them you'll pay ahead of time is BRILLIANT. In Japan, dining out etiquette is very strict and rigid.
For example, where each person sits (by ranking order), serving etiquette (as a guest), e.t.c
*_this man's accent is in a league of it's own, sublime._*
Thats unique gentleman accebt
@@jacobsinger97
So anyone getting undergraduate degrees in Germany has a "business accent" (mixing RP (school English) with the pronunciations word's had where they were learned)
@@jacobsinger97 fr
fiona fiona ha ha lol. So laughing heartily. I hope you are too dear lady.
It depends I spose. Those that like a RP background accent cos they like their SG host over in north sydney .. opposed to another who doesn’t have the physical thingies ...
Yes. Udo. I AM looking at you mr Phillip st
@@waryful3 fr
How to eat food that are meant for your hands like a gentleman would be an interesting video to see. Especially when it comes to burgers and fries
2:43 All of you look great, that's a very nice shot your cameraman did!
Great video! Lot of this information has been lost to time. Also, I love the acting. 😅
I think you’ll find my channel interesting, check it out Zion !
I could watch this chap speak all day long
The acting in this video is prime! The phone scene, chugging the Buffalo Trace, love it!
That tie knot and collar spread is so immaculate.
I’m a native Swede and it’s frustrating to me when people come here or anywhere in Europe and expect everyone to know English
Yes most of us do know English But even learning how to say “please and thank you” in the language of that country. Can go a long way.
Greetings from Sweden
Dear G.G., I watch your videos for pure comedy, but I learn a lot.
Thank you so much Raphael, this is a subject most modern men should make a study of! Also, I adore your outfit today!
You all look so classy!
5:00 (guy staring at GG) when you see class for the first time.
Ladies go first ALWAYS. I am glad you noticed this interaction. It is refreshing to be in the same place as those who follow the rules of graciousness.
❤ Thank you for this video! I usually eat at home but it's still good to know etiquette.
HahHa!! 😃🤣 you drinking through bottle part was hilarious!!
I was invited to my first business dinner and this video is so helpful for me! Thank you.
I really love your high quality video series
Great video, thank you! Exactly what I was looking for
Great content as usual
Thank you 🙏 for speeding up the video.
Great video! More like this please. All things about business etiquette would be good topics.
(I suppose that I miss the Mad Men tv series.)
Great video. I learned a lot. Thank you.
Great video. I have learnt a few things and have saved it.
Very professional!
Valuable advice here.
Very informative.
Totally guilty of many of these, good to learn now
Sir, I love your videos they help me to understand the western culture perfectly.
Just one request, the map that was shown here depicted the part of northern India to be absent. That sometimes hurt people's feelings. So please take care of it in your upcoming videos.
-> the part that was absent was Kashmir (POK) so please see to it.
But you are doing wonderful.
very interesting video...thanks for doing this....(one unrelated question...do you have a video in your archives on what to look for when selecting a premium quality dress shoe?
Great video!
Cheers Raphael & GG 👍
Great video! I hope you also get the chance to do a very formal dining video (Downton Abbey type) if for no more than the fun!
Thank you.
Next video: dinner date etiquette, and tips
This is fun how I read all of this information from Emily Post book on etiquette
Awesome thank you !!
sam snell I think you’ll find my channel helpful, check it out Sam!
You blowing the soup killed me lol
Great Video! Any chance you could do a work Holiday Party etiquete video.
12:59 I thought this suit was dark brown.
Not this again
Could you please do a video on "Prince Suit"?
3:00 Our dutch Prime-minister, Mark Rutte 😂
Good tips.
Cocktail parties are fun and great time to flirt.
I always like to attend and also give cocktail parties.
Finger foods is good and cocktail drinks are best.
I like to dress up for cocktail parties either by wearing a suite or a trouser, shirt and jacket combo. I have even worn a tuxedo to a few cocktail parties.
I think that the host must set the stage for the right standard of the cocktail party, right from the invitation, the invitees, the venue, the food and drink to the introductions and the message (if any).
I have taken a few dates to company cocktail parties, but I have come to realize that a classy woman is much better to invite than a down to earth no ambitions woman.
I like to listen to good background music like smooth jazz.
I have an dining etiquette question: Is it OK to actually tuck your napkin in your shirt when eating a potentially messy meal or is it seen now as improper? I've done it a few times in Italian restaurants when I'm wearing an expensive shirt.
Ooh! It depends!
Let's be better gentlemen, thank you sir.
I'm not a suit and tie business man I work construction but I still love these videos because I make pretty good money and I like to go to nice restaurants
Klinken met glazen is not done !
Preston you look real cute. I love you with a fiery passion
I think you’ll find my channel helpful brother. Check it out
ChangingPeoplesLife didn’t watch any of your videos but I’ll tell you one thing, you won’t be growing having parts of other people’s thumbnails in your thumbnails, you’ll be at 3 copyright strikes before you know it.
zB Matt thanks for the info brother, I’ll look into it
Keep your pants on mr pervert
Whenever I have a dinner date with family or friends ( I’m retired so a business dinner no longer applies) I brush up on my manners with your articles and videos.
At 3:00 the man standing is the Dutch prime minister!
I dont wear a tie to business dinners usually because I want to have a slightly casual look and I hate getting it dipped in the soup by accident. Everything in this video is spot on
Why not trying bowties?
Formal yet practical, since there is not left fabric for you to sip into soups or any kind of liquid whatsoever.
Use a tie bar
Thats almost like a restaurant ettiquets!!
What is the proper gentlemans etiquette when dealing with the Coronavirus?
Hi Raphael good day to you. I don’t drink alcohol but if I’m at an event where there would be a toast, is it appropriate to accept a glass just for the toast and then not drink it?
No, you have to at least drink a little, as a courtesy.
11:46 PPOWER MOVE!!
Japanese yakuza be like let's go to the ramen shop down the street !!!
Not mistreating your servers is also basic human decency, people. Remember, the hand holding that tray or pushing that cart is a human being that struggles to make a living in this world off the sweat of his/her brow, just like you.
This is not directed at you, Sven. This is for morons that think it's fine to not respect those that happen to not earn as much as them when no one is looking.
I feel like if Sven put some glasses on, the outfits would pop so much more than they already do.
Are outfits supposed to pop in a business setting? Answer is usually no.
C. C. By pop I mean look better. Glasses also give an elegance and smarter look to any outfit. So the answer is usually yes.
8:30 "So, as you can see this right here is a very nice .png graphic i found. Best of all, it even has sample text!"
Raphael, I'm in love with your ties.
However, my religion forbids me from wearing silk ties.
Do you have any other good brands or material which can be as great as silk?
my first guess would be a fine woollen or nice cotton or linen in a tight weave. Natural fibres are exemplary.
@@jenniferschmitzer299Wow thanks.
Hope I will find that kind of a tie.
What religion makes silk ties a sin?
@@chilldoc9638 Islam
@@shakezmaybe3192 why is there no silk allowed
Excuse me, Mr. Schneider, there is a possibility that I would be invited to a party with the ambassador of India and his wife present, it would be in night time, so what do you suggest for me to wear, I am thinking of a tuxedo, but any other requirements?
The host will indicate the dress code on the invitation.
@@gentlemansgazette but it's not like that, it's an award giving ceremony, for best pieces of art, no specified dresses, I just want to stand out from my peers!
How about Dorsia
Let's see paul allen's card
great video, can you do a video on smoking etiquette?
How much food should you leave on a plate? I always thought cleaning the plate makes you look desperate and weird
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3:02 You accidentally have chosen a picture of the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte :) Greetings from Holland
MINNEAPOLIS
❤🎉
I am a fan of this site. Please don't alienate potentially half your fans with derogatory President Trump references or "jokes" (past videos).
Handshakes? 😱 how about elbow bumps? 😁
You're from Germany? I could've sworn your accent sounds hispanic lol. I was guessing Spain. Especially because you have that swag. Man was I off!
1:54 can you explain that ??
i don't understand the point
Pls do one on how to be liked by your bosses ,lecturers and superiors
Nice one
ChangingPeoplesLife ikr? I’m fanning myself here with conniptions
Just go to Jim Block and have some fun dude
Raphael, in welchem Land wohnst du eigentlich? Vielleicht antwortest du ja🙋🏻♂️
Egal di ja hornt du helgichten!!!
For Chinese culture, the most important person sits facing the entrance.
Japanese at least avoid seating with the back to the door /make the lowest ranked person sit in such a place
can someone pls summarize this for me
How tall are you two?
Bjn Bgc i‘m 5‘10
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Perhaps you need to go to the next room. They use Big Wurds there.
It isn't easy to obey business dinner etiquette these days. I'm usually a well-behaved person even though I had bad behavior since early childhood. When it comes to being invited to a business dinner, I feel shy about dining out with a bunch of other employees in regards to obeying the boss' choice of restaurant ⛓. 👍🏻 if you highly agree.
You are making a great video it helped me a lot but i saw you show the wrong Indian map please correct Jammu and Kashmir is an unforgettable part of India
Hello, I'm Shahat
Sven, don't dis Black Forrest Inn like that.
Bro got drip for sale
If I owned a firm and had employees I wouldn’t have business lunches. I would arrange meetings before or after lunch. It’s difficult, I think, to eat and talk at the same time. M.
And awkward, it's an American tradition tho
I think that's why he recommended saving business talk for the dessert course. Talking hobbies while eating a steak is relatively easy and it's quite possible you won't even be in that conversation. Business requires everyone to be focused which is much easier over a piece of pie.
@@ffaubert1
So why waste a perfectly nice meal on people you could be done with in a elevator (self driving conference rooms would be interesting).
@@fionafiona1146 Lol. I need to see that self driving conference room, but point taken.
@@ffaubert1 Reno brings them to car shows for years (conference room needs over technical improvements)
Für einen gebürtigen Deutschen ist deine englische Aussprache echt bemerkenswert! Ich würde gerne mal wissen, wie sich deine Stimme anhört, wenn du Deutsch sprichst. :D
If this has to be taught to you, you just don’t have the sauce
You don't have to mention what college he goes too. I know buisness men who are 6 7 figures woth a GED due to setbacks. It's not nessasary.
This remind me my most embarrassing moment when i was dining 1 to 1 with woman client and who invite me and i hit her glass of red wine and poor it on her white dress....
Handshake at 6:23 = 😖😖😖
That’s a really limp and fruity handshake there; I feel really awkward when I get a flaccid ‘finger shake,’ especially in a business setting.
* Don’t get me wrong-I love yer channel. It’s likely you have an explanation. ✌️
Aye, the dreaded dead fish handshake. Don't be the one that initiates that, under *any* situation. It makes awkwardness skyrocket like little else.
No braun Shows after 20.00 hour.
You know when a couple has been together for a long time when they look alike
me and my girlfriend are tired of our mum saying that
RavenclawBoi my wife and I hear it all the time... it can get embarrassing at times.
Swoon
This Preston guy looks like he escaped from the Weimar republic
I don’t think so. Respectfully saying
inflation hit his pantry?
I talk about politics all the time.
So many things to remember!! 😫🤯🤯😵😵 im dead! I would rather be a trucker than this..cuz im a dude not a bot
. 75 speed? Re-watch ?
fiona fiona that was harsh dear Lady
@@fionafiona1146 whaat!? 😲 was that for me?
Sorry?
@@fionafiona1146 wachyu saying to me??
Haha! "His neighborhood was infested with Democrats."
Presidents of countries dont even dress as good as you do sir
mohamarr ghadaffi though
@@carbonado2432 hes dead
I hace to say that the trousers you always wear are so big, that they make me unconfortabe.
I agree with most of what you said., having been in business over 40 years and having these meetings. With one exception. The person who brought up democrats did a calculated risk, that is to say most democrats don't own business and are not in high managerial positions but instead are fire fighters, teachers in govt jobs. Now had the person you are entertaining to try and secure the contract, if he or she brings up politics it's good to side with them in some way like even a silver lining at least. Often times praising the same politics makes the buyer comfortable with you. If you know for certain that you share the same politics as your buyer, then you should bring it up in conversation. Agreeing on shared ethos is a great way to build trust that goes with religion as well. I would guess ya'll are democrats for saying to be quiet on politics and religion, which in business is not a wise Sun Tzu tactic that we in the market practice. Just by saying to be quiet may have lost ya'll all hundreds of followers on CZcams. "Sanity is a narrow as a razors edge." But I think you are still young and are learning the ways of the world so I don't take umbrage. Be careful with your words.