The Soup Course

1,2- costumers-magpapaturo
3,4,5,6- waitresses, magtuturo
First, make sure you position yourself at the table so youll be successful with eating soup or any
meal. Use about two widths of your hand if you will to measure the edge of the table and your
stomach, thats about the distance that you want to be when your seated in the table so that your
food is not travelling so far from a plate to your mouth.
Soup can be served in a soup plate, a very shallow bowl that is placed on top of a charger or a
service plate.
Your soup spoon is a utensil with a larger bowl. Think about your soup bowl as the face of the
clock. Youre going to be dipping your spoon at 12 oclock on that face of the clock. Taking the
soup spoon across the edge of the plate gets any spills off the bottom of the soup spoon. And
then the soup comes up to me/ you. Drink the soup from the edge of the spoon that faces me/
you, not from the point of the spoon. Never drink the soup from the soup bowl.
Sit up straight, one small bite at a time, dont fill the soup spoon so that youre not going to have
trouble drinking that soup or that is going to spill while youre doing so. Eating the soup, is the
soup coming to you, not you coming to the soup. You can lean over slightly, youre not gonna
hunch back, youre not gonna rest your arm on the table.
Between bites, when youre using a soup plate, you may leave the soup spoon on the soup plate
because its shallow, its not gonna cause any spills or any problems.
The soup can be served in a soup cup or a soup bowl, if thats the case, its going to arrive on a
liner. After youve had some of the soup, eating that on the same way, always place your soup
spoon on the liner or the saucer that cometh with that. In small bowls, do not leave the soup
spoon in the bowl, always leave on the liner.