{"id":40,"date":"2008-01-31T05:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2021-09-25T21:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T02:46:35","slug":"the-dos-donts-of-a-dinner-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/featured\/the-dos-donts-of-a-dinner-date\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dos And Don&#8217;ts Of a Dinner Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nonwhite aligncenter\" title=\"vintage double date dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/01\/groupdate.png\" alt=\"Vintage soldiers sitting with his wives at table.\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Almost every date involves taking a woman out to eat. It is not only fun, but offers a perfect opportunity to show your date your manners and character. Below are a few of the do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts of dinner dates. If you do the do&#8217;s, you&#8217;re guaranteed to impress your date and score a second one with her. If you do the don&#8217;ts, she won&#8217;t be returning your calls.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Do&#8217;s<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the door for your date and pull out her chair for her.<\/li>\n<li>Place your napkin on your lap.<\/li>\n<li>Break off a chunk of bread to butter it instead of buttering one huge slice.<\/li>\n<li>Come prepared with interesting conversation topics to discuss.<\/li>\n<li>Say thank you to the waiter each time he or she brings you an item.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-bus the table to make the waiter&#8217;s job easier. (This shows you respect those in the service industry.)<\/li>\n<li>Pay for the whole bill, and make it obvious you are going to do so to avoid an awkward conversation.<\/li>\n<li>Leave a generous tip. A tip speaks volumes about your character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Don&#8217;ts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wear a ball cap during the dinner. You shouldn&#8217;t be wearing one at all, but if you are, take it off when you enter the restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>Chew with your mouth open.<\/li>\n<li>Make the waiter&#8217;s job difficult with anal orders and requests.<\/li>\n<li>Obviously check out other women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember that many of these rules apply for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/people\/relationships\/the-10-commandments-of-the-at-home-dinner-date\/\">dinner dates at home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/people\/relationships\/how-to-ask-a-girl-out\/\">How to Ask a Girl Out on a Date<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/etiquette\/guide-dining-etiquette-table-manners\/\">A Man\u2019s Guide to Dining Etiquette and Proper Table Manners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/etiquette\/properly-butter-eat-bread\/\">How to Properly Butter Bread<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/etiquette\/who-pays-for-dinner\/\">Who Pays For Dinner?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/etiquette\/dining-etiquette-and-table-manners-video\/\">Dinning Etiqutte [VIDEO]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/etiquette\/\">Etiquette Archives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every date involves taking a woman out to eat. It is not only fun, but offers a perfect opportunity to show your date your manners and character. Below are a few of the do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts of dinner dates. If you do the do&#8217;s, you&#8217;re guaranteed to impress your date and score a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42285],"tags":[42244],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-relationships","tag-dating"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/groupdate.png-500x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/groupdate.png-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/groupdate.png-320x252.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141291,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/141291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}