Serving Food and Drink [Day 7 - 2WBSP]

Welcome to another day of learning and enhancing submissive positions. Today we are going to cover food service etiquette. Some of this may be familiar to you. If this is the case, try to enhance it and make it more personal and unique to your relationship.

If you’ve ever been to a more formal restaurant with white table clothes and places already set before you sit down, you may have experienced a more organized service of food and drink. Today I have a collection of tips, tricks and resources for serving a full meal to your Dominant with style and grace.

I know that there is a correct side to place food and then the opposite to remove dirty dishes, however I don’t know which it is, could someone fill me in? There is a proper way to hold the plate when serving and so forth I want to know those tips too! Please share them in the comments.

I’m still learning this form of service so I will use a lot of other resources to talk about this, but it is important even if you are serving just your Dominant and no one else. Here are some beginning resources for a more formal service.

• Setting the Table
• Rules for Serving
• Food and Beverage Service Manual
• Service at Its Best—Waiter/Waitress Training: Guide to Becoming a Successful Serverby Ed Sanders, Paul C. Paz and Ron Wilkinson
• Robert’s Guide for Butlers and Household Staff
• Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (Oxford World’s Classics)
• Butlers & Household Managers: 21st Century Professionals

There are also ways to have a D/s centered formal dinner. These are completely different no matter where you go, but they always hold some form of protocol, rules and structure for the evening. Here is a link to the essay on The Iron Gate about a formal D/s dinner: Masters Banquet – A formal D/s Feast.

I’m always looking for more tips and resources, please share yours with me!

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Recording Your Completed Training

Your Training Resume is a folder or binder with all of your training, history and experience in it, so that you can give it to a prospective Dominant or to keep a training history for yourself. It’s a novel concept for submissives and one that I’ve not seen so far.

Part of the Resume is to record your training experience. For this you have to take all experience that you have as training. If you have experience writing letters, for example, this would be a training item. It can be things you are educated to do or something you picked up as a hobby. Keep your mind open. Training is not always structured parts of your history. It is anything you can do that would provide a service to a Dominant.

You can organize your training according to service type. Your domestic training can all be together, your sexual training in another section and your dungeon experience in yet another. Make it look nice. Type it up or write it out neatly.

For this post I’m going to use a basic task that everyone should know; making coffee in a automatic drip coffee pot. You should be as detailed as possible. You can come up with as many subheadings as needed to explain your training. Remember this is for your history and to help Dominants know what you can do.

Task: Make Coffee

Description of Training: How to make a pot of coffee using an automatic drip coffee pot, from start to pouring the coffee.

Service Type: Domestic Food Service

Number of Years: 4.5

Experience Level: Expert

Protocol Level: Basic

Supplies Used: Ground Coffee, Coffee Measuring Spoon, Tap Water, Coffee Filter, Coffee Pot

Process Learned:

1. Fill Coffee pot decanter with enough water for the cups requested.
2. Pour water into the holding container.
3. Place decanter onto hot plate under filter spout.
4. Open filter basket.
5. Please new filter into basket.
6. Measure coffee grounds enough for water used.
7. Close filter basket.
8. Turn on coffee pot.
9. Wait for coffee to finish making.
10. Fill cups and serve.

Special Care: Cleaning weekly with coffee cleaner

Was it fulfilling? The service of making coffee is a basic task and I don’t feel any extra fulfillment to the task other than reducing my Dominant’s thirst.

What you need to remember with every activity that you put in your binder/folder is that you need to keep it updated as you get more experienced or develop a higher level

Building your Training Resume

1. Beginning Your Training Resume
2. Recording Your Training History
3. Recording Your Completed Training
4. Mapping Out Your Ideal Submission
5. The BDSM Checklist that will Really Help You
6. Add Your Reading List
7. Add Cons, Classes and Events