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The University Career Center held its fifttvannual Business Etiquette Dinner and Dress for Success Fashion Show in the Lillis Business Complex
Atrium on Wednesday night. Etiquette consultants from Bums & Reed Enterprise coached students on proper behavior as they partook in a
three-course meal complete with formal place settings.
Dinner, fashion show give
lesson in minding manners
Students learned the etiquette of buttering bread and
sipping water at the University Career Center function
BY EVA SYLWESTER
NEWS REPORTER
Students got a taste of good man
ners at the University’s Business Eti
quette Dinner and Dress For Success
Fashion Show on Wednesday night.
This is the fifth year that Rose
marie Burns and Linda Reed, eti
quette consultants for Burns & Reed
Enterprise, have given presentations
at the University, sponsored by Ara
mark Uniform Services. Burns and
Reed met at The Protocol School of
Washington, which was located in
Washington, D.C., at the time, and
have been business partners since
1998. Burns, based in Danville, Calif.,
and Reed, of Eugene, teach etiquette
classes for everyone from six-year
olds to business executives.
“Normally we charge $190 to $350
per person for a dining tutorial,”
Reed said.
Wednesday’s seminar, sponsored
by the University Career Center,
was free and open to all University
students.
“Dining etiquette is important be
cause, in many situations, part of
your interview may be over dinner or
over lunch,” said Ronnie Casanova,
employer relations specialist for the
University Career Center.
“Dining skills really are for the
benefit of the people you’re dining
with,” Reed said. For example, when
drinking from a glass, it is considered
proper to look down into the glass
rather than over the top of the glass
at another person. The reason for
this, Reed said, is that one might be
unaware of having food caught in his
or her teeth and might unknowingly
inflict that sight upon others.
Even experts are not immune from
mistakes. As Burns instructed stu
dents on the proper way to tackle a
cherry tomato — hold the knife blade
steady against one side of the tomato
and then spear the tomato with the
fork — she described an embarrass
ing personal encounter she once had
with an independent-minded cherry
tomato in Washington, D.C.
“It went bouncing down the table,
so I never forgot how to do this,”
she said.
As people ate, Burns and Reed
walked around the room, giving in
structions and answering questions
ranging from what to do with chew
ing gum at the table — “Swallow it,
that’s what I’d do,” Reed said — to
how left-handed people should
follow rules designed for right
handed people.
University Catering provided a
three-course dinner for the event: sal
ad with lettuce, cucumber and cherry
tomatoes; garlic mashed potatoes,
chicken piccata or eggplant parme
san, and asparagus; and apple pie.
“I found it humorous that some
body had to pass the bread around
the entire table to get it to one per
son,” University Catering server
Mandy Brice said. Brice said she of
ten doesn’t notice customers’ table
manners in her work with University
Catering, but “sometimes the stu
dents aren’t as professional.”
Burns and Reed’s lessons were
surprising to many dinner guests.
“I didn’t know how to eat my
bread,” sophomore business major
Sasha Welka said. The proper
method of eating a bread roll, Bums
and Reed said, is to rip off a small
piece from the roll on the plate, butter
the piece and eat it.
Burns and Reed also discussed the
difference between American and
Continental (European) styles of eat
ing. In the Continental style, one nev
er puts down the knife and frequent
ly stacks food on the back of the fork.
“I had friends from Denmark
last year, and we always talked
about it,” junior sociology major
Kim Klier said.
The dinner concluded with a fash
ion show sponsored by Macy’s, and
Casanova and Career Center GTF
Heather Marshall offered pointers on
business dress.
“Regardless of the knowledge and
expertise you have, a first impres
sion is a lasting impression,”
Casanova said. She suggested that
students wear subtle and conserva
tive clothing and accouterments for
job interviews.
Welka said she was recruited to be
a model in the fashion show while at
the Career Fair. She modeled a busi
ness-formal outfit of a pinstriped
jacket and black pants. Business for
mal wear consisted of suits, including
ties for men, and business casual
wear included dress shirts without
ties for men and knit tops and skirts
for women.
To sign up for future Career Center
seminars, visit the Career Center Web
site at uocareer.uoregon.edu.
evm'ylwester@ daily em erald.com
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