6 Rules For Dining Out That Waitstaff Really Wish You'd Follow

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/65e73b872300005300656650.jpeg?cache=QPRmmqAdaj&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Taking photos is definitely a pet peeve, and not for the reasons you may think." data-caption="Taking photos is definitely a pet peeve, and not for the reasons you may think." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="whitebalance.oatt via Getty Images" />Taking photos is definitely a pet peeve, and not for the reasons you may think.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><span style="font-weight:400">Now that we’re all back to dining out like we did in the good old days (pre-COVID), the rules of what’s acceptable and what isn’t have changed. For instance, fine dining once required specific place settings and dress codes, but that hardly exists anymore.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">“Fine dining, as we used to know, is almost entirely dead,” author and teacher</span><a href="https://www.matthewbatt.net/"><span style="font-weight:400">Matt Batt</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> told HuffPost. “I think so many of the old rules of etiquette are kind of gone, and I think it’s for the better really.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">For several years Batt worked in restaurants, including a mob-run diner in Milwaukee, an Asian-German fusion restaurant in Columbus, and the James Beard-nominated Brewer’s Table — located above Surly Brewing — in Minneapolis, which shuttered in 2017. “It was in almost every way the best job I’ve ever had,” he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">Last year he published the book ”</span><span style="font-weight:400">The Last Supper Club: A Waiter’s Requiem”</span><