Eating at a Fast Food Restaurant
This week we will take our table manners out to a restaurant.
First, let’s visit the fast food restaurant. In a fast food restaurant, you typically order your meal at the counter and wait for your food to be prepared and put on a tray. You then take your tray to a table, eat your meal, and then throw away the food wrappers.
Even during this process, there are manners that can show courtesy to those around you.
If necessary, use the restroom or wash your hands before you order. This way you are not leaving your meal either at the counter or at a table that others may need.
Know what you plan to order before you reach the head of the line. Place your order and pay quickly. This is not the time to chit-chat with the cashier. This is especially true if there are others waiting behind you.
If you are given a number, listen for your number to be called.
Only take the number of napkins, ketchup packets, spoons, straws, etc. that you will need. Taking any more is wasteful.
Once you get your meal to your table, lay out your meal on either a wrapper or on a napkin. This is for hygiene reasons. The tables, seats, and floors of fast food restaurants are generally not very clean.
If you accidentally spill something, clean it up. If it is a really big mess, ask an employee for assistance.
Remember that you are in a public place. Use “inside voices” and avoid any behavior that would disturb other patrons.
When you are finished with the meal, collect your trash and throw it away.
Tags: children, dinner etiquette, fast food, Manners, people skills, restaurant, Table Manners
Table Manners | lifeskills | March 9, 2009
