Patent ID: 7871971

Claim:
A method of rinsing machine-washed tableware materials, said method comprising: (a) providing a rinse agent comprising (i) an alkoxylated carboxylic acid ester with a narrow homolog distribution of a formula: wherein R 1 C(O) represents an aliphatic acyl group, each AlkO independently represents an alkoxylate selected from the group consisting of CH 2 CH 2 O, CHCH 3 CH 2 O and CH 2 CHCH 3 O, n is a number of from 1 to 20, and R 2 represents an aliphatic alkyl group and optionally (ii) an additional nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of fatty alcohol polyglycol ethers, alk(en)yl oligoglycosides, fatty acid-N-alkyl glucamides, hydroxy mixed ethers, mixed ethers, and mixtures thereof; and (b) contacting a tableware material surface with the rinse agent during machine washing of the tableware material surface.