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usiness and social etiquette can be tricky. Making the right moves and saying the right thing can and will make a big difference in your career. Take this quiz — courtesy of The International Butler Academy — and see how you fare in the following everyday business situations. Learn the importance of business etiquette and protocol, and that social skills, or the lack thereof, can make or

break deals and careers. The answers are at the bottom of the page.

Question 1: Your boss, Ms. Alpha, enters the room when you’re meeting with an important client, Mr. Beta. You rise and say “Ms. Alpha, I’d like you to meet Mr. Beta, our client from San Diego.” Is this introduction correct?

Question 13: You are talking with a group of four people. With whom do you make eye contact?

A. With the person to whom you are speaking at that moment.

B. Each of the four, moving your eye contact from one to another.

C. With the other three people you are not speaking at that moment.

D. No particular person.

Question 5: You are hosting a dinner at a restaurant. You have pre-ordered for everyone and indicated where he or she should sit. Are you correct?

Question 6: You are invited to dinner in a private home. When do you take your napkin from the table and place it on your lap?

A. Immediately when you sit down.

B. Wait for the host or hostess to take his or her napkin before taking yours.

C. Wait for the oldest person at the table to take his/hers.

D. Wait for the acknowledged head of the table to take his or hers before taking yours.

Question 8: You are at a dinner and champagne is served with the dessert. You simply can not drink champagne yet know the host will be offering a toast.

You should: A. Tell the waiter “no champagne”.

B. Turn over your glass.

C. Ask the waiter to pour water into your champagne glass instead.

D. Say nothing and allow the champagne to be poured.

Question 9: A toast has been proposed in your honor. You say “thank you” and take a sip of your drink. Are you correct?

at a restaurant people feel awkward when they do not know where they are supposed to sit.

6. B and/or D 7. B 8. D 9. No. If you do, then you’re toasting yourself.

Other people toast in your honor and in that case you do not sip.

10. B and/or D 11. B 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. D

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Question 7: You are in a restaurant and a thin soup is served in a cup with no handles. To eat it you should: A. Pick it up and drink it.

B. Use the spoon provided, not picking up the cup at all.

C. Eat half of it with a spoon and drink the remainder.

D. Use the spoon provided, picking up the cup to finish the soup completely.

Question 10: You are hosting a dinner party at a restaurant. Included are three other couples, including your most valuable client and his wife. You instruct the waiter to: A. Serve your spouse first.

B. Serve your client’s spouse first.

C. Serve you first.

D. Serve you and your spouse last.

Question 11: You are invited to a reception and the invitation states “7:00 to 9:00 p.m.” You should, or you may: A. Arrive at 6:55 p.m.

B. Arrive any time between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

C. Arrive any time between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

D. Arrive around 9.00 p.m.

Question 12: You are introduced to a new colleague.

Which sentence is clearly wrong?

A. Hello, I have heard so much about you.

B. How do you do?

C. It is a pleasure to meet you.

D. Hello, how are you?

steps out of the cab, he or she will be on the curbside and therefore won’t have to deal with getting out in traffic or sliding across the seat.

5. Yes. It will make everybody’s life so much easier. Also, many times

Question 4: You are entering a cab with a client.

You position yourself so the client is seated curbside. Is this correct?

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Question 15: You are at a table in a restaurant for a business dinner. Midway through the meal, you’re called to the telephone.

What do you do with your napkin?

A. Take it with you.

B. Fold it and place it to the left of your plate.

C. Loosely fold it and place it on the right side.

D. Leave it on your chair.

This is part of a quiz from The International Butler Academy. To take the entire quiz and score yourself, go to www.butlerschool.com, and search for the “etiquette quiz.”

2. No, this is wrong, unless he asks for the business card. Resist the urge to “quickly score” a contact.

3. No you are not. In this case it is none of your business who is calling.

4. Yes. When your client

Question 3: You answer the phone for your supervisor who cannot reach his phone in time. You ask: “Who’s calling, please?” Are you correct?

Question 14: When you greet a visitor in your office, you should: A. Say nothing about where the visitor should sit and let the visitor sit where he or she wishes.

B. Tell the visitor where to sit.

C. Say “Please sit anywhere”.

D. Simply sit down yourself and the visitor will find a place himself or herself.

ANSWERS 1. No. The correct way is this: “Mr. Beta, may I introduce Ms. Alpha.”

The client is the most important person. People are introduced to the client, not the other way around.

Question 2: At a social function, you meet the CEO of an important corporation.

After a brief chat, you give him your business card. Is this correct?

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et ready to rock out! The 2019 Coconut Point Concert Series is here! On select Fridays from February - May, we will be featuring live music concerts on the lawn by Florida Blue. Enjoy an evening of live music for the entire family. Food and drinks can be purchased from event vendors and local restaurants at Coconut Point.

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ashioning Art from Paper presents the full breadth of Isabelle de Borchgrave’s exploration of historical costume through the artful folding, crumpling, painting and sculpting of paper. From masterful recreations of elaborate Renaissance gowns to whimsical costumes from the Ballet Russes, de Borchgrave’s breathtaking, life-size works have been featured in major exhibitions around the world. Many of the costume designs represented in Les Ballet Russes were fashioned by artists like Picasso, Bakst and Matisse.

FESTIVAL OF GREAT ORGAN MUSIC

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he goal of Restaurant Week is to encourage people to visit the best LOCAL restaurants during a normally slow time of year and help expose people of Collier, Lee and surrounding counties to our amazing SWFL restaurants! The best thing about the Sizzle SWFL Restaurant Week is that $1.00 from every Restaurant Week meal (lunch or dinner) sold will be donated to the Sizzle SWFL FGCU Food & Beverage Scholarship!

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The City of Naples “4th of July Fireworks” fire off at 9:00 p.m. from a barge approximately 1,000 feet north of the Naples Pier.

The presentation will feature a 25 minute display with special effects musically choreographed to patriotic selections that will be simulcast on radio station WAVV 101.1 FM., be sure to bring your radio and tune in to the patriotic simulcast! Naples residents are invited to bring chairs and/or blankets and pick a spot along the City beach from Lowdermilk Park to south of the Pier for the best viewing spots in town, as the fireworks can be seen all along the Naples beach. Personal use of sparklers, Chinese lanterns, or any fireworks is prohibited per City ordinance.

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steamship magnate Hermann Oelrichs. Stanford White based his design for the mansion on the Grand Trianon of Palace of Versailles. The house was completed in 1902. In 1904, Mrs. Oelrichs organized what is considered the first “White Party.”

Rosecliff is only one of the great mansions of Newport available to host weddings. But it boasts the largest ballroom these great houses, a room which has been featured in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974), High Society, True Lies, and Amistad, as well as Antiques Roadshow on television.

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ne of the great estates of the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island, Rosecliff Mansion has emerged as a primary destination for memorable weddings. Now open to the public as a museum, Rosecliff was once one of the great entertainment houses for the social elite of early 19th Century.

In 1898, architect Stanford White was commissioned to design a “summer home” suitable for entertainment on a grand scale,

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• 24/7 personal concierge program; 1-1.5 rewards points per dollar spent.

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WHY FINE DINING CAN

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e eat with our eyes and not with our stomach,” says Brian Wansink, Director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, and the former executive director of the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Over the past ten years, Wansink’s work and publications have had a significant impact on the way Americans view and manage their food and beverages. As a result of his findings, for example, most bars now serve drinks in taller glasses, as we have become more aware that we tend to drink more when the glass is shorter and wider. The minisize (100 calorie) package is another result of Wansink’s research.

Undoubtedly, his warnings about an “obesity epidemic” has been confirmed by other health observers. However, Wansink’s work is fraught with controversy.

Many of his studies have been challenged by other professionals and journalists, who accuse him of false conclusions and sloppy scientific handling.

Still, it would be unwise for us to ignore his findings, much of which is valid. Among his studies for Cornell is a 2012 experiment in which he converted a Hardee’s into two distinct areas. The report states, “One area remained unchanged with bright lights, colors, and loud music. The other area was modified into a fine dining environment by adding indirect lighting, plants, paintings, white tablecloths, and soft jazz music playing in the background.”

Lunchtime customers were randomly

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assigned to one of the two dining areas, where their time spent eating was recorded and their plates were weighed to measure consumption. Both groups initially ordered similar amounts of food.

But, according to Cornell, “results showed that although customers in the fine dining atmosphere ate for 4.7% longer, they ate less than their fast food counterparts (86% vs. 95%). Furthermore, not only were the people in the fine dining atmosphere no more likely to order additional food, but, when they did, it contained 14% fewer calories than participants in the fast food atmosphere.”

Wansink’s experiment seemed to confirm a well-established nutritional concept that faster eating results in more calorie intake. We also need to consider the difference between fast food and fine dining where beverages are concerned. Fine dining customers tend to order drinks that are generally considered healthier, such as bottled water and red wine in moderation, as opposed to the sugary drinks that commonly go with fast food.

The fact that the pace is slower when dining at an upscale restaurant, especially when eating with friends, has an enormous effect on your level of stress. With a slower heart rate and a more focused mind, one can also more wisely determine when to stop eating.

Wansink notes that, when asked what determines when they would stop eating, Europeans tend to say something like “When I no longer have an appetite.” They

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SAVE YOUR LIFE are more in tune with their body. Whereas, Americans tend to say they stop eating when their plate is empty. So, much of our eating habits are due to cultural differences. Americans who eat while watching TV will only stop eating when the show they are watching is over.

If you must eat alone, it is far better to eat at a table than in front of the TV. While it sounds odd, the best thing is to eat in front of a mirror. You are then literally watching what you eat.

We should always focus on what we eat, and not eat mindlessly. In his popular book, Mindless Eating, Dr. Wansink argues that overeating is built into our culture. Chain restaurants use colors, music, and other environmental clues to get us to eat more, and spend more. Fine dining

“We should be dining instead of eating.” – Julia Child restaurants use lighting and music that tend to slow down our meal.

Even when we eat at the dinner table, we then immediately settle in front of the TV for the rest of the evening. Europeans have more of an opportunity, and tradition, to go outside and walk. Walking is another habit that sets Europeans apart from us, the advantage being that their cities are smaller. Even new cities are designed for walking. Dining at a restaurant gives Americans that opportunity to at least stretch and physically make our way home, even if we have to drive there.

In most cases, we begin a meal at a restaurant with an appetizer or bread, on a small plate. The meal also tends to end with a small plate if you’re having dessert.

According to the Cornell studies, the ad-

vantage of a small plate is the illusion that it contains more food than it really does, and so we are psychologically convinced that we’ve eaten more. The studies have shown that if you switch the same amount of food from a small plate to a large plate, people tend to add more food to the large plate, because visually the same amount looks less on the large plate.

By the same token, people drink more from a wide glass than from a tall glass, because the same amount of beverage looks less in a shorter, wider glass. If we become aware of how we eat with our eyes, we can also avoid eating from packages, which gives us the tendency to eat the entire content of the package.

Because we can’t visualize the intake of food, we keep eating until the contents of

the package are finished. Food producers encourage this type of eating. Think about how a 14 oz container of Häagen-Dazs fits neatly in your hand. Then think about the calorie consequences of eating that entire container in one sitting.

The same is true of potato chips. The wise thing to do when you first open a bag of chips is to put the amount of your limit in a plate or bowl. Otherwise, you will eat the contents of the entire bag.

Having a portion of food in front of you limits the amount you eat, another advantage to fine dining.

The Presidential Magazine is not responsible for any scientific facts associated with the studies stated in this article. You should consult a doctor before starting any diet.

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