Restaurant Service Training Dining Etiquette Workshops

Specializing in on-site, certificate Casino Food & Beverage Training for Servers • Bussers • Host Cashiers Dining Room Managers/Supervisors

EATiQuette in the community . . .

Three or four times each year, we teach table service and dining etiquette to trainees at St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance Community Kitchen program in Phoenix, AZ. We're pleased to add another marketable skill set to those being learned in this culinary and life skills training for low-income adults. And we're excited to have been a part of this valuable program since its inception in 1990.

One Step Beyond is a comprehensive program for people with cognitive disability. Culinary training is just one of the many vocational and life skills that help participants lead productive, independent lives. We've had the opportunity to introduce those in the OSB culinary program to proper table manners and the basics of service, from napkin-folding and table setting to tray and plate carrying.

(Photo by William Roller, Yuma Sun) We were honored to be included on the judging panel of the 7th Annual Yuma County High School Cook-off. Twenty-one teams of three students prepared crudité and dip appetizers and "mystery basket" main courses and demonstrated their cake decorating skills. Congratulations to the winners! We'll look forward to participating at next year's competition.

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EATiQuette founder, presenter and co-owner David Rothschild jokes that he was “born into the restaurant business,”  since, while his mother was pregnant with him, his father was a partner in an Upstate New York lodge. Some of David's earliest memories are of crawling around commercial kitchens. He’s still more comfortable entering a restaurant through the kitchen door. David has more than 40 years of experience in the restaurant industry, as a manager, server and service trainer. He's worked at major resort and restaurant properties in New York, New Mexico, Michigan and Arizona. As an instructor in the Culinary Arts Program at MetroTech High School in Phoenix (Arizona) from 1988 to 2003, he was responsible for the operation of a student-staffed coffee shop, fine dining room and banquet facility. At the request of another MetroTech instructor, David developed his first etiquette lesson in 1989. The goal was to introduce high school students to proper dining etiquette and to help them feel comfortable in both social and business dining situations. In the summer of 1998, David first began offering his etiquette seminars (renamed EATiQuette) to the public, businesses, colleges and culinary training programs. He has presented to more than 500 groups ranging from preschoolers to Fortune 500 executives. Some 12,000 participants have been impacted by this unique workshop. David was a finalist in the Society of American Cuisine's Year of the Waiter program and was nominated for Arizona Vocational Teacher of theYear in 1997 and 2000. The MetroTech Culinary Arts Department was the 1995 Vocational Program of the Year in Arizona. David is a member of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences and has served on numerous Arizona high school and college culinary program advisory boards. David regularly presents dining etiquette and table service training at St. Mary’s Food Bank Community Kitchen. David and his wife, Barbara, co-wrote a weekly dining etiquette column, Ask Mr. EATiQuette, that ran for two years in The (Biloxi, MS) Sun Herald’s Marquee entertainment section. David is regularly consulted as a restaurant service and dining etiquette expert  by national and international media. He is also a regular contributor to Native American Casino and other industry publications. EATiQuette co-owner Barbara Rothschild is a former Phoenix food writer/restaurant reviewer. She currently serves as administrator, sales and marketing director, accounting department and webmaster for EATiQuette and created the "info'toon" illustrations seen in The Main Course on Dining Etiquette.

On April 10, 2003, David was inducted into the  Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame! Above, David accepts his award from Scottsdale League for the Arts President George Owen As of April 2009, there are fewer than 75 recipients of this prestigious award since it originated in 1992 The Main Course on Table Service  waitstaff training manual & instructor's guide The Main Course on Dining Etiquette step-by-step guide to dining with confidence in the 21st century