Gen Z doesn’t care for table manners — and refuse to stop doing this one rude thing during a meal By . Alexandra Klausner. Published April 3, 2024. Updated April 3, 2024, 10:27 a.m. ET.

More than half of Gen Z (60 per cent) feel that traditional manners are no longer of importance, a survey of 2,000 diners by Italian restaurant Prezzo has found.

Perhaps most surprisingly, 77% of Gen Z respondents admitted to not caring about elbows on the table. However, it's not just younger individuals who are lax about table manners.

Generation Z - the age group that my daughter is youthful enough to sneak into - is less interested in acknowledging the dos and donts which turned my mealtimes in the 1970s into decorum trials.

A new study has found around 60 percent of people aged 12 to 27 - Gen-Z - think traditional table ettiquette is no longer relevant to the modern world, reports Censuswide.