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Business Meal Etiquette: the Soup Course
Many
(31) ... business meal starts with a soup course.
(32) ... you have already begun by munching on the bread, this is your first opportunity to demonstrate your table manners to impress or unimpress-your dining companions.
Choosing the right spoon is step number one. If the table has been preset, your soup spoon will be the large round or oval one to the far
(33) ... of your place setting. If the table has not been fully set, the server will bring your spoon with the soup. I recently found myself on a hunt for my soup spoon
(34) ... the waiter had brought the bowl. There was no soup spoon to the right of the place setting and it didn’t seem to be anywhere else close
(35) ... Just before confessing that I was without a spoon, I spotted a handle sticking out from under the oversized soup bowl. So check the plate first
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