Table Setting
Table setting or place setting refers to the way to set a table with tableware—such as eating utensils and dishes for serving and eating. The arrangement for a single diner is called a place setting.
2 types of table settings * Informal * Formal
Informal setting is easier, involving the least amount of tableware as there are fewer courses involved. This is your basic everyday table setting, one that you might already set each night for dinner in your own home.
Rules for a proper place setting
A meal that requires a formal place setting will consist of salad, bread, soup, drinks and a main course with dessert and coffee following.
Silverware
A formal table set with every imaginable piece of silverware can appear daunting, but things will go smoothly if you remember one important rule: start from the outside and work your way in toward the dinner plate. After a course is completed, the server will remove the appropriate silverware that will no longer be required. If there is something still in question, as a last resort you can follow the lead of your host.
Also upon finishing your meal, place your silverware at a 4:00 to 10:00 angle with the knife blade facing you. This position will let your server know that your plate is ready to be cleared.
1. Similar to the informal place setting, again forks are placed on the left of the dinner plate, knives and spoons go on the right.
2. Silverware is to be placed on the table in the order it will be used; silverware that will be used first should be set to the farthest left and right sides of the plate.
3. Knives should be placed with their cutting-edge toward the dinner plate, except the butter knife which should be laid flat on a bread plate.
4. Utensils should be roughly 1/2 inch away from the plate and should be lined up evenly by using the bottoms as measure.
5. Dessert silverware can be placed at the table setting if you wish or brought out later just before
2 types of table settings * Informal * Formal
Informal setting is easier, involving the least amount of tableware as there are fewer courses involved. This is your basic everyday table setting, one that you might already set each night for dinner in your own home.
Rules for a proper place setting
A meal that requires a formal place setting will consist of salad, bread, soup, drinks and a main course with dessert and coffee following.
Silverware
A formal table set with every imaginable piece of silverware can appear daunting, but things will go smoothly if you remember one important rule: start from the outside and work your way in toward the dinner plate. After a course is completed, the server will remove the appropriate silverware that will no longer be required. If there is something still in question, as a last resort you can follow the lead of your host.
Also upon finishing your meal, place your silverware at a 4:00 to 10:00 angle with the knife blade facing you. This position will let your server know that your plate is ready to be cleared.
1. Similar to the informal place setting, again forks are placed on the left of the dinner plate, knives and spoons go on the right.
2. Silverware is to be placed on the table in the order it will be used; silverware that will be used first should be set to the farthest left and right sides of the plate.
3. Knives should be placed with their cutting-edge toward the dinner plate, except the butter knife which should be laid flat on a bread plate.
4. Utensils should be roughly 1/2 inch away from the plate and should be lined up evenly by using the bottoms as measure.
5. Dessert silverware can be placed at the table setting if you wish or brought out later just before