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Social Skills - Restaurant Etiquette
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Restaurant Etiquette
Teenagers are becoming young adults, and must start to take on the adult role in everyday activities. If they are eating out without their parents, they need to know how to make reservations, approach hosts, ask for the check, and handle a variety of mishaps.
Social Skills - Restaurant Etiquette
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Welcome to my Restaurant Etiquette handout. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. Next is Restaurant Etiquette: everything about going out to eat, making a reservation, what happens when you walk in the door. I understand that a lot of our students aren't doing this on their own, or the parts that they are doing, like ordering their food, they're probably pretty good at, but as our students get closer to adulthood, they do need to learn to handle all the aspects, including making reservations, paying the check, everything that adults do. And for this activity, it's just a lot of perspective taking because we'll discuss how each aspect impacts the waiter or waitress, or the hostess, how are your behaviors going to impact the people around you. Thanks for viewing my Restaurant Etiquette handout. If you like what you've seen here, please like and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!
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Social Skills - Restaurant Etiquette
This material is one of our “Real-World Communication” resources, targeting every aspect involved in dining out, including such skills as how and when to make a reservation, how to speak with a host(ess), getting the attention of your server, ordering your meal, paying the check, handling issues like dropped utensils and order mistakes, and treating restaurant staff with respect.
This activity covers a pivotal life skill many adolescents haven't had much personal experience with yet, especially for aspects like making a reservation or obtaining and paying the check. Dining out is an inherently social experience even if dining alone, as it involves interaction with hosts/hostesses, servers, cashiers, and busboys. As a result, it requires thorough perspective-taking. With this in mind, discussing how behaviors (like arriving at a restaurant close to closing time) affect others is vital.
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