Image and Protocol Solutions offers classes for boys and girls from kindergarten to eighth grade and also corporate clients. Family dinner has fallen victim to modern-day demands, and social graces children once learned around the dinner table are lost. Many are handicapped by their lack of manners, according to local etiquette experts and food servers. Children used to learn which fork to use from parents around the dinner table. There's very little time for the old-fashioned family dinner where everyone attends and everyone is expected to use his best manners.
Television is another problem.
All social graces have deteriorated, but I still have hope. The more casual the restaurant, the more casual the manners, one Tallahassee food server said. Fast food is just disgusting. The crux of the whole thing is that families aren't eating dinner together anymore. When you throw something in front of your kid and say 'eat this real quick because you've got to go to school or whatever,' you can't expect them to learn table manners.