The more buffets that I go to the more I wish the restaurants would post our Rules of the Buffet. Here they are once again for all of our readers to take note of and remember. Recently #28 seems to be one that many need to know about...
RULES OF THE BUFFET
1. All you can eat is not a challenge. It is an offer!
2. There is no limit to the number of times that you can go up and get food.
3. Take your food in courses - as you would be served if ordering from a menu.
4. Everyone must pay!
5. No food is permitted to be taken out of the restaurant.
6. Take only what you will eat - do not waste food.
7.
For a more social meal, it is polite to wait for the others at the
table to finish their plates and then go up together to get more.
8. Take a clean plate every time that you go up to the buffet tables.
9. If you put it on your plate, leave it there. Never return food to the serving tray.
10. Never eat at the buffet tables!
11. Children under 12 should not be going up to the buffet tables alone.
12. The buffet table is not a cafeteria line.
13. Tip the server.
14. Never take a serving piece from one item and use it for another item.
15. Never place your dirty plates on someone else's table.
16. Never use your silverware to serve yourself from the buffet trays.
17. Once you have gotten what you want, don't stand around the buffet tables. Move on back to your table.
18. Children should remain seated through the meal.
19. Do not fill community plates for the "table". Each should take their own plate of what they wish to eat.
20. If you cough or sneeze into your hand, please do not use that hand to pick up the serving utensils.
21. In the buffet, as in any restaurant, children (and adults) should use their inside voices.
22. Don't talk on your cell phone while you are getting your food at the buffet tables.
23. Never bring an animal into the buffet. (this is not referring to medical guide dogs)
24. Never put your hands into a serving tray.
25. Tell your children not to put their hands into a serving tray - and make sure that they do not!
26. Do not carry on a conversation throughout dinner with the people at the tables around you.
27.
Do not put anything back into a serving tray that has dropped onto
the serving counter - and never put anything back into a serving tray
(whether from the counter or your dish) with your fingers.
28.
Never put the serving utensil, whether it a spoon, fork, or tongs,
up to your nose to smell the food that you have taken out of the
serving tray.
29. Do not eat while walking with your plate back to your table.
30. If
you take a plate, bowl, cup, or piece of silverware and you decide you
don't want it, do not put it back on the stack of clean dishes or back
with the clean silverware. Take it back to your table or put it on the
side of the stack where it will not be taken as clean.
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2 comments:
Number 26 is just too much I think? I don't fully understand why you must not talk with your seatmates while eating. That's what everyone's doing, and besides, it's fun to have a long running conversation in the dining table.. well, ok maybe not too much whilst eating and then drop all the topics after everyone's finished. eh?
Rachel - #26 is not talking about talking with the people at your own table. Of course your are going to do that. #126 is talking about long and extensive conversations with people at other tables - often across another table where there are people sitting that are not involved in the conversation. When this has happened it is quite rude - particularly if you happen to be sitting at that table in-between.
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