On their best behavior
Published 04.14.2022
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![Career Services' Etiquette Dinners take the mystery out of fine dining.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2022/04/D72_0725_PCTo-400x400.jpg)
![Amid tables topped with a confusing assortment of plates, glassware and utensils, guest services attendant Ann L. Lukowsky puts student diners at ease.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2022/04/D72_0777_PCTo-400x400.jpg)
![Well-fed (and even more well-mannered) by evening's end, students fill the PDC for an Etiquette Dinner.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2022/04/D72_0794_PCTo.jpg)
![Carter J. Simcox takes note of an easy-to-remember mnemonic method for determining which bread plate and drinking glass correspond to a place setting: a lowercase "b" with the left hand and a "d" with the right. Simcox, of Lock Haven, earned an associate degree in architectural technology last year and is pursuing a bachelor's in building science and sustainable design: architectural technology concentration.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2022/04/D72_0746_PCTo-400x400.jpg)
![Good taste, great food and proper presentation converge in a Le Jeune Chef-prepared meal.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2022/04/D72_0761_PCTo-400x400.jpg)
Career Services staff, hospitality experts from Le Jeune Chef Restaurant and faculty mentors helped guide dozens of students through the dining "do’s and don’t’s" during a literal tabletop exercise.
Many of the night's patrons are students traveling to Spain this spring for a 12-day global experience with Naim N. Jabbour, assistant professor of architecture, who hosted this latest Etiquette Dinner with John F. Chappo, assistant professor of history/history of technology.
Photos by Kollin G. Kisner, student photographer