Top Restaurant Etiquette Tricks

The best thing to do to avoid such sickening retribution is to be an exemplary customer by following these guidelines on restaurant etiquette.

Tips from lifespy

treat your waiter or waitress kindly
Avoid snapping your fingers
shifting from one table to another
Try to be considerate
respect

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Restaurant Etiquette 101

Problem: The restaurant is fully booked.

Solution: Put yourself on a waiting list. Don't be afraid to emphasize how much you want that table, as your eagerness may help persuade the staff to fit you in, even when they're booked.

Problem: You hate your table.

Solution: Speak up quickly. Most hostesses say they prefer to know before a diner has been seated. Of course, you yourself may have no way of knowing if you're happy until the hostess walks away. In that case, don't waste your time complaining to the waiter. They don't decide where you sit.

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