Let’s resolve to enjoy eating out more in 2013. Here are my tips:

• Be a mensch: A crack in your wine glass should get you a fresh pour in a different bowl, not a free drink. Don’t treat every restaurant slip as a chance to get more than you ordered.

• Show up on time: When you’re seriously late, you inconvenience more people than you might realize: the hostess, the server, the diners scheduled for the table after you. The president can speed through town without stopping for red lights and other traffic. You can’t. Plan accordingly.

• Leave the attitude at home: Don’t bring your bad day at the office or the fight with your kids into the restaurant. Make an effort to enjoy the occasion.

• Dress for the occasion: No one expects you to put on a tie and jacket for a night of beer and barbecue, but you might want to dig deeper into your closet for a venue where celebrations are frequent or formality is observed. You’ll blend in better. Plus, you’ll make the folks around you, who have taken the time to iron a shirt and press some slacks and maybe hire a babysitter, feel as if their hard-earned money is being spent at the right place. Dressing up a little isn’t showing off. It’s showing respect for the restaurant and for others around you.

• Save the grooming for a private place: Do not file your nails, floss your teeth or change a baby’s diaper in a public dining room. (I’ve seen all three. None whets the appetite.) Restaurants have areas called restrooms where personal grooming is better undertaken. And while we’re on the subject, putting your feet, bare or covered, on the seat of another chair is a turn-off, too. This isn’t your living room. It’s shared space. Pretend Miss Manners is dining with you.

• Don’t hog the table: If it’s a busy weekend and you’ve paid the bill, be a chum and make way for the next party. Or at least don’t linger beyond 10 minutes. The industry has a name for those who don’t know when to say goodbye: campers.

• Speak up! Waiters aren’t mind-readers. If your wine is too warm, your fish is too cold or you just discovered there are peanuts where you didn’t expect (and don’t want) them, that’s the moment to share the news with the restaurant (and in a pleasant tone). It doesn’t do anyone any good to complain about the issue afterward. Give the restaurant a chance to recover and perhaps even impress you.

• Acknowledge the staff: If you’ve enjoyed your experience, tell the server and his or her manager. And remember that busboys, coat checkers, valet parkers and bartenders all contribute to a meal away from home, too. Few of us tire of hearing “thank you.”