An etiquette expert has told her TikTok followers that helping waiting staff to clear plates is actually bad manners.
Laura Windsor posted a video of plates in a restaurant being stacked by a customer accompanied with a subtitle stating that doing this is ‘inelegant’.
She continued: ‘You might as well take them to the kitchen and stack the dishwasher.
An etiquette expert has told her TikTok followers that helping waiting staff to clear plates is actually bad manners
‘When you are at a restaurant the whole point is to relax and enjoy without feeling you need to help out the waitstaff.’
Laura went so far as to say that ‘it’s not good manners’ and ‘distasteful’ to ‘take over and do someone’s job for them’.
Some of her followers disagreed, with one commenter stating: ‘I used to work in hospitality. I was always grateful for people who tried to help a little.’
Laura Windsor (above) posted a video of plates in a restaurant being stacked by a customer accompanied with a subtitle stating that doing this is ‘inelegant’
Another disgruntled viewer said ‘my momma raised me right thank god – stacking a couple of plates has never taken away from a meal out’.
And ‘CJ’ claimed that ‘it’s actually inelegant to sit there and watch them struggle instead of doing something that takes two seconds and will help them out’.
User ‘PixelBitBot’, meanwhile, was clearly irked by Laura’s guidance, writing: ‘No one is entitled enough to actively ask people not to do something that helps someone else because they think it’s “inelegant”.’
But Laura didn’t take the criticism lying down, retorting that it had nothing to do with entitlement but was rather to do with ‘the roles one plays’. She finished her reply stating: ‘Do you go around doing other people’s jobs?’
In another video, Laura remarks that it’s rude to blow on your food. ‘Just wait for the food to cool,’ she says.
She adds in the same clip that you should keep pace with the other diners, ‘so that you all finish at more or less the same time’.
For more from Laura visit www.tiktok.com/@laurawindsoretiquette.
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