What is the common sense of business banquet etiquette

Business banquet seating etiquette is an important part of business banquets, but compared with other parts of the business banquet seating etiquette and has special features. Below is the content of the article I collected for you to organize the general knowledge of business banquet seating etiquette. I hope it can help you!

Business invitation seating etiquette common sense

Business banquet seating arrangement is the accumulation of traditional Chinese culture, is with the historical development of human society and gradually formed, developed and constantly perfected, is the historical precipitation of learning. Business banquet seating etiquette with the social environment and business needs and continue to be enriched and developed.

Business banquet etiquette is mainly for business people, business people in business occasions must understand and master the etiquette. China's formal banquets are organized before the banquet, scheduled tables and seating, or only scheduled the main table of the seating, other than just arranging the table.

Business banquet seating is divided into: Chinese banquet seating and Western banquet seating. The two ways are different, but the basic principle is the same.

Chinese business banquet seating etiquette

Chinese formal banquets are held before the banquet, scheduled tables and seating, or only scheduled the main table seating, the other is only the arrangement of tables.

Business banquet seating etiquette principles are: to the right for the upper seat, to the center for the upper seat, to the inside for the upper seat, to the near for the high far for the low.

Business banquet host seat

Master seat, the main guest right seat

that is, the host faces the main door of the restaurant. The seating is centered on the master's seat, and if the hostess attends, the master and hostess are arranged in order of precedence, near high and far low, right up and left down.

When there are multiple hosts, the two sides can be cross-arranged, the closer the status of the master the more respect. When holding multi-table banquets, each table has a representative of the master of the main table in the seat.

Business banquet seating etiquette - the right as the honor

The arrangement of the seat to the right as the honor, the left is inferior. Therefore, if the male and female hosts are seated side by side, the male left and female right, to the right is greater. If there are two tables, the male and female hosts separately, then the right table is greater. Guest seating arrangements are also the same, that is, the right side of the male and female hosts for the big, the left side for the small.

Foreign guests

Europeans and Americans see the banquet as the best social occasion, so the seats are taken by the principle of seating, that is, men and women seated separately, rows of men and women for each other as the interval. Couple, father and daughter, mother and son, brother and sister must be separated. If a foreign guest is present, the Chinese and the foreign guest will be seated together.

Cross-seating of the guest of honor

Business banquet seating etiquette - the same direction of the table

The table seating of honor, according to the distance from the master of the table, close to the top, far for the bottom. Each table is the same distance from the master of the table seating, pay attention to the right as the honor, that is, the master of the table itself face to face prevail, the right as the honor, the left as the second.

Business banquet seating etiquette - the guest of honor

If the identity of the guest of honor is higher than the host, in order to show respect for the guest of honor, you can arrange the guest of honor in the host's seat, the host is sitting in the position of the guest of honor, that is, the right seat, the second host is sitting on the left side of the guest of honor.

If the lady follows, the order of ranking is the same as that of her husband. That is, among the many guests, the male guest of honor ranks first, and his wife ranks second.

Business banquet seating etiquette a table of two masters

Hostesses to participate in cross-seating

The arrangement of two masters per table is the same table is divided into the first host and the second host, the first guest of honor and the second guest of honor were seated on their right.

Positional seating

The position or status of the higher person is honored, the higher seat, according to the position of the position, that is, the position of the official rank, can not be overstepped. If the position or status is the same, then you must follow the traditional customary positioning of the official position.

Lady guest of honor, husband attendant

If the invitation is extended to a female guest of honor, because she is a minister, and the gentleman is not a prominent official, such as the chairman of a large company, it must be ranked after all the ministers.

Chinese business banquet seating etiquette according to the individual's own position in order to facilitate the conversation, such as the presence of Mrs., often the female side of the row together, that is, the guest of honor to sit on the upper right of the host male, his wife

does the hostess on the upper right. More than two tables of the banquet, the other tables of the first host position can be the same direction as the host position of the main table, but also to face the main table of the position of the main seat.

Western business banquet seating is also based on the table and the arrangement of the Western banquet table is used to use the long table, or according to the number of people, the size of the venue set up on their own.

Western banquet seating is generally arranged according to the status of the guests, the female guest seating based on the status of her husband. You can also sit according to categories, such as men and women sitting, couples sitting, Chinese and foreign sitting.

Business banquet seating arrangements

One of the preparations before the start of the formal banquet is to arrange seats. Each seat placed on a good seat card, large banquets more tables, each table should be placed on the table card. This is not only convenient for guests and hosts to be seated, waiters on the menu, but also conducive to the unified management of the banquet. When guests enter, the banquet hall door ushers should be enthusiastic to guide the front into the seat. Banquet seating specific requirements are as follows:

1. Arrangement of banquet seating, according to different habits at home and abroad. According to our custom, the usual situation is to face the entrance to the master of the seat; the master of the opposite side of the vice-master position; the master of the right side of the guest of honor, the left side of the second guest of honor; vice-master of the position of the right side of the first guest of honor; the rest of the first right after the left order, and so on.

2. In accordance with foreign custom, the seating arrangements are usually the guest of honor on the right side of the host; the guest of honor Mrs. master of the left side, men and women should be interspersed arrangements. In the specific arrangements for the seat, but also consider some other factors, such as whether the relationship between the guests are cordial, whether the guests are equal in size, whether the language communication barriers, etc., according to the situation at the time of flexible handling.

(I), table arrangement

International practice, the height of the table from the main table location near and far, at the same time, pay attention to the following four points:

One of them, centered on the top. That is, the tables around together, in the center of the Xing table should be the main table.

The second, to the right as the top. That is, facing the front door, the table on the right side of the main table is higher than the table on the left side of the main table.

Third, to far as the top. That is, the distance from the main door of the banquet hall is higher than the table from the main door near the table.

The fourth, Linhe as the top. That is, the proximity of the stage of the table is higher than the distance from the stage of the table.

The arrangement of tables, the size and shape of the table should be basically the same. In addition to the main table can be slightly larger, the other tables are not too large or too small, the distance between the banquet tables should be appropriate, the distance between the seats should be equal, both to highlight the main table, but also to a reasonable layout. Banquet layout is reasonable means that the tables are placed not only to facilitate the guests and waiters in and out, walking and toast, but also to allow all angles of the guests can see the banquet speech and stage performances.

(2), seat arrangement

Arrangement of each table on the specific seat, there are also four etiquette practices, they often work at the same time.

One of them is that the face of the door is dominant. Refers to each table, to face the main door of the banquet hall in the center of the position of the main seat, the main seat on the right side of the main guest seat. If the identity of the guest of honor is higher than the host, in order to show respect, you can arrange for the guest of honor to sit in the main seat, and ask the host to sit in the guest of honor seat. If the banquet table is rectangular, the main seat can be arranged at one end of the long table, the deputy main seat at the other end of the long table; can also be arranged in a rectangular table facing the door in the center, the deputy main seat in the main seat opposite.

Two, right high left low. Refers to each table, in addition to the main seat, the rest of the seats should be the height of the table master.

Third, high near low far. It means that at each table, close to the master of the table high, far from the low seat.

The fourth, the same direction at each table. Refers to large banquets, other tables should be the main position with the main table to maintain the main position with the two directions, in order to ensure that the banquet to the banquet can be timely and accurately find their own table, you can indicate on the invitation, or in the banquet hall population hanging banquet table arrangement schematic, arrangements for the receptionist to guide the guests to be seated, or placed on each table table table (written in Arabic numerals). At the same time, each banquet table should also be placed on a prominent personal name seat card. When holding foreign banquets, seating cards should be written in both Chinese and English. Our practice is that Chinese is on top and English is on the bottom. If necessary, the seat card on both sides of the name of the diner, handwriting should be clear. In addition, the number of diners arranged at each table should be limited to 10, preferably in even numbers, such as 6, 8, 10. If the number of people is too many, it is not easy to take good care of, but also may not be able to sit.

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