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Summary: Conducting business during meals, whether for sales or deal-making, has become common. Take a lesson in business meal manners in this free business etiquette video.

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Business Meal Table Manners

Alright. We are ready to move on and start talking about the business meal. And, what I mean by that is the business luncheon. The business breakfast. The business dinner. There are actually some things that you definitely want to do and don't do in order to have proper communication etiquette. Just in general, manners are a good thing. Please. Thank you. Not reaching across the table. Just general table manners. And, I'm not going to go specifically into that. But, I do want to suggest that you are very aware of your table manners when you're at a business meal. They could vary from when you're having a meal at your own home. The first thing I want to talk about and this may be very disappointing for you. But, in truthfulness if you are to follow business etiquette it is essential that you save the wine for after the meal. Ok. You don't want to get going on the wine too early. It might affect your business decisions. However, again I want to bring up culture. A number of cultures, they do not do business that way. And, you must know what it is that is their protocol. Because, you do not want to offend. In many of the countries that I've been to where I've had business meetings, the drinking of the wine, the drinking of the vodka, the drinking of the whatever starts right away. And, you need to go with their cultural norm as to not offend. But, as far as business deals in America go proper etiquette is to wait on the wine until after the business is done.

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