Oryoki has been a part of Chan/Zen for a very long time. It is my understanding that Dogen is given credit for codifying Oryoki. You can find his instructions in "Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community", in the section entitled "The Dharma for Taking Food (Fushukuhanpo). Much of what is done today follows his instructions laid out in that chapter. A couple of my favorite parts are when he says "food is the dharma of all dharmas" and "Eat with reverence". He also give practical advice like don't talk with your mouth full, and no spitting. 
I also found this on the Sotozen.com site: "... we must think deeply about Dogen Zenji's words and thought in “The Dharma for Taking Food”, and we must actually feel them and meet the Way through them: “Let the Dharma be the same as food and let food be the same as the Dharma” and “the Dharma is food, food is the Dharma.”
There are two basic Oryoki meals - breakfast and a noon meal. The ceremonies are slightly different. If you would like to watch the noon ceremony there is a link below if you haven't seen it before.
Oryoki Ceremony at Komazawa University
We will have a single ceremony we will follow that is a bit of a blend of the two.
The Oryoki ceremonies were just how the priests ate in the monasteries for all their meals. When Zen came to the west that held true. But Shunryu Suzuki decided he wanted to make it more inclusive and in 1965 he and others at Tassajara modified the ceremony so it was accessible to all the members of the Sangha. Eventually this was codify in a booklet - below. They reduced the number of bowls and made other changes. If you google Oryoki instructions you will find that a large number of Sanghas use this pdf still today. This is the document linked from Upaya.
I love this picture of him eating outside.
suzuki oryoki.jpg
And here is a short video, about half of it shows the more formal version of the modified Oryoki - this is also at Tassajara.
Our practice will be similar to these videos except that, obviously, we will need to accommodate the fact that we are doing it together across the world.
Gassho,
Shinshi
SaT-LaH
I also found this on the Sotozen.com site: "... we must think deeply about Dogen Zenji's words and thought in “The Dharma for Taking Food”, and we must actually feel them and meet the Way through them: “Let the Dharma be the same as food and let food be the same as the Dharma” and “the Dharma is food, food is the Dharma.”
There are two basic Oryoki meals - breakfast and a noon meal. The ceremonies are slightly different. If you would like to watch the noon ceremony there is a link below if you haven't seen it before.
Oryoki Ceremony at Komazawa University
We will have a single ceremony we will follow that is a bit of a blend of the two.
The Oryoki ceremonies were just how the priests ate in the monasteries for all their meals. When Zen came to the west that held true. But Shunryu Suzuki decided he wanted to make it more inclusive and in 1965 he and others at Tassajara modified the ceremony so it was accessible to all the members of the Sangha. Eventually this was codify in a booklet - below. They reduced the number of bowls and made other changes. If you google Oryoki instructions you will find that a large number of Sanghas use this pdf still today. This is the document linked from Upaya.
I love this picture of him eating outside.
suzuki oryoki.jpg
And here is a short video, about half of it shows the more formal version of the modified Oryoki - this is also at Tassajara.
Our practice will be similar to these videos except that, obviously, we will need to accommodate the fact that we are doing it together across the world.
Gassho,
Shinshi
SaT-LaH