Table Setting Etiquette Links

4H members learn etiquette

Courtesy photo Sampson County 4-H volunteer Rita Hall instructs youth on a proper table setting at a monthly Happy Feet Club meeting, where manners was the program topic. The 4-H Department depe...

Table text: Diners can’t do without their smartphones, so restaurants are (mostly) tapping into the spirit

DING. Bzzzt. Bap. Beep. That’s the sound of conversation in restaurants these days. Where cell phones once posed a nuisance as people chatted loudly into them during meals, smartphones now present a whole new set of etiquette issues as entire tables disappear into the Internet via small glowing screens. Like an analog world-munching Pac-Man, the modern smartphone has morphed into instant ...

Smartphones present etiquette issues that call for a digital-era Emily Post

Smartphones may be part of the fabric of our lives but should they be part of the table setting in restaurants?

When diners' eyes feast on their cellphones

Some restaurants try to accommodate smartphone addicts and even join in. Others try to discourage the diner distraction. Ding. Bzzzt. Bap. Beep. That's the sound of conversation in restaurants these days. Where cellphones once posed a nuisance as people chatted loudly into them during meals, they now present a whole new set of etiquette issues as entire tables disappear into the Internet via ...

Charm school for a new India

At the prompting of Pria Warrick, her class of aspiring politicians open their arms wide and press their palms together over their heads -- milking the cheers of an imaginary crowd of supporters.