As Kids, we were taught to say Good Morning/Good Afternoon /Good Evening by way of greeting (depending on the time of day of course…)
and when we left… we would say Goodbye /Goodnight
(and "thank you very much, please may we come and visit again " as applicable. )
Goodbye… to all who left .as they left… was sufficient,
unless they had brought goodies and we wanted to encourage them to visit again
in which case we thanked them for whatever and smiled appealingly/appallingly
We don’t really say anything on a day to day basis but the op asked what the equivalent was, perhaps the real answer is nothing or there isn’t one but that’s the translation I would use as ‘good appetite’ would never be said in English.
When my eldest was a baby I had a friend with twins. I was there at lunchtime one day and she popped them in the highchairs and starred feeding directly from the saucepan. I was quite shocked but as she explained it was so much easier for her with two as she just didn’t have enough hands to cope with 2 plates and 2 babies without a huge mess! I then decided it was genius in her situation! Her hubby was in the legion so she was doing it mainly on her own.
In English, if such a thing is needed, as host/hostess with guest diners waiting, we might hold an upturned hand towards the meal setting and say say “Please” (not too enthusiastically!) and smile.
Best homes (and restaurants) in UK would have the waiter simply bow and back away. Saying “Enjoy!” is not U but forgiven for foreigners.
There’s an apocryphal story about a Queen (in most accounts, Queen Victoria) entertaining guests and everyone being served prawns, which, according to etiquette, should be broken open with the hands. Each diner was provided with a small bowl of warm water to rinse their fingers. But at this meal, a foreign dignitary picked up his finger bowl and drank from it. The Queen, without missing a beat, picked up hers and drank from it, too.
Etiquette is more about care and consideration and all of those things that allow everyone to sit down at the table as equals, to share food and to feel comfortable doing it.
I remember in Beirut, my four year old brother picked the flower petals out of his finger bowl and ate them. At least it kept him quiet.
“You Will Eat!!”
was barked at us when our food was served… at a small auberge/resto… during our very first visit to France…
The Owner/waiter… was trying to make us feel at home by using his English language skills
(it could almost have been a scene out of “Allo, Allo…” )
The next morning, when I ventured down a little early… Madame (his Mother) was making croissants and despite neither of us being able to really understand the other… she patiently showed me "how it was done… " and we eventually had these delicious goodies for breakfast … yummy
However rather than some Olympian judgement being handed down, I suspect we have a bit of AI jiggery-pokery going on, but perhaps the Forum Gurus can tell us more?