During tonight's etiquette dinner, students will have the opportunity to learn how to pass food, how to order off of a menu and what to do if food is dropped on the floor.
The dinner will be from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Alumni Center. Registration for the event closed Friday and the event was $10.
The purpose of the etiquette dinner is to show students how to interact with employers in a dining setting, said James Mitchell, senior assistant director of the Career Center.
There are 80 students signed up for the dinner as well as six employers from Auto-Owners Insurance.
"They don't have to just hear [rules of proper etiquette] from me ... but an actual employer who could hire them will be there to say that as well," Mitchell said.
Senior hospitality and food management major Stephanie Lemus said that she especially likes that employers will be present.
"With going for interviews with different jobs and employers taking me out to dinner, it's really great because it will show me what I am supposed to do and how to be professional," Lemus said. "It will be great because obviously when we grow up, we can't be eating like we usually do. I think everyone should know how to properly be out eating."
Mitchell said that an etiquette dinner is offered at least once a semester.
"I think the reason that it's successful is that this isn't something that most majors talk about," he said. "There are very few places on campus that would even teach this as part of their curriculum. So it gives students the chance to learn about this skill set of social skills that really does make a difference."
Mitchell added that the dinner is more beneficial to students because the experience will be a realistic representation of an etiquette dinner, rather than a presentation about it.
Lemus said that she believes that the etiquette dinner will help her in the future.
"I think all students should at least do it once during their four years because you get a free meal out of it, which is great," she said. "But then you also get to network and the whole point of us being in college is furthering our careers."
The event is not only a learning opportunity, but a networking opportunity as well, Mitchell said.
"[Students will] understand that it has a value beyond the fact that they're trying to make a good impression on an employer, that it's really applicable in a lot of other settings in their life," he said. "So it's more than just a job skill, it's a life skill that we'll be teaching."
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