Table Manners & Etiquette for Business

Video Transcript

"Hello I am Elena Brouwer from the International Etiquette Center in Hollywood, Florida. Website is etiquettecenter.com. We are talking about good manners at the table; if you are with people and more so on a business situation make sure that you do not have anything on the table such as your cell phone or your eyeglasses or any kind of handbag. Everything should be taken off and the only thing that belongs on the table are your hands for eating. And of course you need to be careful about that cell phone when you are doing any kind of business because you never want to have that phone ring. What can you do? Well you need to be careful, I advise people to actually not even bring it to the table because accidents happen. And sometimes you are in the middle of a discussion and all of a sudden, what do we hear? We hear a phone ringing and that is really, really bad. So if you bring it, turn it off. "