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Dining Etiquette Guide for the Business Lunch or Dinner Interview

TCNJ – School of Business

 

Place settings:

Left side of dinner plate (outside in)- forks

  • Salad
  • Dinner
  • Fish

     

Right side of dinner plate (outside in)

  • Soup spoon
  • Beverage spoon
  • Salad knife
  • Dinner knife

     

Above dinner plate

  • Dessert spoon and cake fork

 

Above and left of dinner plate

  • Bread and butter plate

 

Above and right of dinner plate

  • Any drinking glasses

 

Begin eating once everyone is served.

 

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School of Business

Business Building, 114
The College of New Jersey
P.O. Box 7718
2000 Pennington Rd.
Ewing, NJ 08628

P) 609.771.3064
F) 609.637.5129
E) business@tcnj.edu

 

Interim Dean

Jack V. Kirnan, Ph.D.

E) kirnan@tcnj.edu

 

Assistant Dean

Tammy Lynn Dieterich

E) dieteric@tcnj.edu

 

Coordinator of Student Services

Erica Kalinowski
E) ekalinow@tcnj.edu

 

Manager of Operations

Patty Karlowitsch
E) karlowit@tcnj.edu

 

Administrative Assistant to the Dean

Rachel Ellis

E) ellisr@tcnj.edu

 

Secretary for Accounting, Economics, Finance and International Business

Joyce Jammer
E) jjammer@tcnj.edu

 

Secretary for Management, Marketing and Interdisciplinary Business

Sharon Pizzutello
E) pizzus@tcnj.edu

 

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