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Your empty dinner plate may be disappearing faster than etiquette says it should. Traditional dining etiquette calls for restaurants to wait until everyone at a table has finished eating before clearing the plate. But many contemporary restaurants clear plates individually, creating an awkward question for diners: Is the server simply being attentive or are you being hurried out? “Everyone at the table should be finished before all the plates are cleared,” Jacqueline Whitmore, Florida-based founder of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, told Fox News Digital. Salar Sheik, who runs Savory Hospitality Restaurant Consulting in Los Angeles, said diners shouldn’t automatically interpret a cleared…

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