Table Ethics & Etiquette

Table Ethics & Etiquette

  We went to Sri lanaka institute of hotel management and Tourism as a filed visit.The Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management (SLITHM) is the only Government approved premier Institute in Sri Lanka, which was established by the Government in 1964 to train young men and women in the complex field of Hospitality and Travel Industry.

Table manners are important in both professional and social situations, so it’s a good idea to know some basics. Using proper etiquette at the table will also help you socially and professionally in a restaurant or in someone’s home.It’s really important to know table manners as university undergraduates because we most likely to get in to work with high level people. Which it’s essential to learn basics of  Table Ethics & Etiquette.

To learn those things, we went to the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management. It was an interesting place. First we were given instructions about how to behave and improve your personality in a table. Then after that the lecture has moved on to table ethics.

NAPKIN ETIQUETTE

At informal meals, place the napkin in your lap immediately upon seating. During formal occasions, before unfolding the napkin, wait for the hostess to remove her napkin from the table and unfold it in her lap.

1. Place the napkin in your lap upon seating.
2. When leaving the table temporarily, put the napkin on your chair.
3. At the meal's end, fold your napkin and place it to the left of your place setting.

How do you hold a fork?
HANDLING UTENSILS

Proper table etiquette may vary depending on where you are. There are two traditional Western schools of eating with a fork and knife: the European "continental" style, and the American "cut-and-switch" or "zig-zag" style.[1] However, the American version may have actually begun several hundred years ago in France. In most modern settings, however, it doesn't much matter how you hold the fork as long as you're able to eat efficiently.

THE TABLE SETTING

Place setting

Informal settings generally have fewer utensils and dishes but use a layout based on more formal settings. Utensils are arranged in the order and according to the manner in which the diner will use them. In the West, forks, plate, butter knife, and napkin generally are placed to the left of the dinner plate, and knives, spoons, stemware and tumblers, cups, and saucers to the right. (By contrast, formal settings in Armenia place the fork to the right of the dinner plate and informal settings in Turkey place the fork to the right of the dinner plate if not accompanied by a knife) Sauce-boats and serving dishes, when used, either are placed on the table or, more formally, may be kept on a side table.


Informal
At an informal setting, fewer utensils are used and serving dishes are placed on the table. Sometimes the cup and saucer are placed on the right side of the spoon, about 30cm or 12 inches from the edge of the table. Often, in less formal settings, the napkin should be in the wine glass. However, such objects as napkin rings are very rare in the United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, or Italy.

Formal
A formal table setting for one person.Utensils are placed inward about 20cm or 8 inches from the edge of the table, with all placed either upon the same invisible baseline or upon the same invisible median line. Utensils in the outermost position are to be used first (for example, a soup spoon or a salad fork, later the dinner fork and the dinner knife). The blades of the knives are turned toward the plate. Glasses are placed an inch (2.5 cm) or so above the knives, also in the order of use: white wine, red wine, dessert wine, and water tumbler.

SOUP ETIQUETTE
Hold the soup spoon by resting the end of the handle on your middle finger, with your thumb on top. Dip the spoon sideways at the near edge of the bowl, then skim away from you. Sip from the side of the spoon. To retrieve the last spoonful of soup, slightly tip the bowl away from you.


SEATING ETIQUETTE
 the guest of honor should sit in the best seat at the table. Usually that is one with the back of the chair to the wall. Once the guest of honor's seat is determined, the host should sit to her left. Other people are then offered seats around the table.

WE LEARNED LOT OF THINGS

This is time to do PPD

LATEST SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRENDS

There are lots of IT related degrees in Sri Lanka; to shine or get good job in these huge crowd we have to know what are the new trends going on the software industry & what the industry expecting from the Degree holders. This session conducted by  Hsenid mobiles one of the best mobile service solutions in Sri Lanka.

There are two persons come from the company one HR manager of Hsenid mobiles she talked about their company and  their structure and services. They are offer internships for our seniors. she told about what are expecting from candidate. Those information help us when we prepare for our next year interns.

The next person is a Software Engineer from the industry He talk about what are the new software trends in the industry and he gave some advises from his experiences.

Advantages of using open source

The benefits of open source is tremendous and has gained huge popularity in the field of IT in recent years. This is mainly because the advantages of open-source software is that it's free to use – its greatest advantage. As it is developed by a non-profit community, it has some disadvantages as well.Open-source software is free to use, distribute, and modify. It has lower costs, and in most cases this is only a fraction of the cost of their proprietary counterparts.

Open-source software is more secured as the code is accessible to everyone. Anyone can fix bugs as they are found, and users do not have to wait for the next release. The fact that is continuously analyzed by a large community produces secure and stable code.Open source is not dependent on the company or author that originally created it. Even if the company fails, the code continues to exist and be developed by its users. Also, it uses open standards accessible to everyone; thus, it does not have the problem of incompatible formats that exist in proprietary software.Lastly, the companies using open-source software do not have to think about complex licensing models and do not need anti-piracy measures like product activation or serial number

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Social computing

Social computing is the collaborative and interactive aspect of online behavior. The term can be understood in contrast to personal computing, which describes the behavior of isolated users.Elements of social computing include blogs, wikis, Twitter,  instant messaging, multiplayer gaming and open source development, as well as social networking and social bookmarking sites. Social computing is closely related to the concept of web 2.0, which can be thought of as the framework of applications supporting the processes of social computing.

Social computing within an organization can empower and motivate employees and, as a consequence, create benefit for the business.

so these are important facts that we learnt on that day we must be really thankful to the madam sarasi and Hsenid mobile to conducting us as a helpful lecture.