When dining in western food, it is shaped like a figure of eight. If you have a short rest in the middle of the meal, you can divide the knife and fork into plates, and the knife head and fork tip are opposite to each other in a "I" shape or a "I" shape, and the knife and fork are facing yourself, indicating that you still want to continue eating. If you are talking, you can hold a knife and fork without putting it down, but if you need to gesture, you should put it down and never wave it in the air. It should be noted that at no time should one end of a knife and fork be placed on the plate and the other end on the table. Knives and forks have another very important function besides cutting dishes into the mouth. The arrangement of knives and forks conveys the message of "eating" or "ending eating". The waiter uses this method to judge the dining situation of the guests, and whether to clear the tableware for the next service, etc., so I hope that Ji Run can remember the correct way of setting the tableware. It is especially important to note that the blade side must face itself.

There are two ways to place the end of a meal: in the middle of the meal, the lower face of the fork can be upward, and the blade side of the knife is inward close to the fork and placed in parallel on the plate. The following placement methods are divided into English style and French style, no matter which way is ok, but the most commonly used one is French style. Try to put the handle in the plate, so as to avoid falling off due to touching, and it is easier for the waiter to clean up. When attending the wedding banquet, no matter how to put the tableware in the "in-meal" position, as long as the main guests finish eating, they should immediately put away all the dishes. Therefore, when banquets are held, remember to take the main guests as the center. At a banquet, a pair of knives and forks is used for each dish, and the knives and forks placed in front of you are taken from the outside in turn, because the order in which the knives and forks are placed is exactly the order in which each dish is served. Knife and fork are used up, and serving is over. When you need to talk or have a rest halfway, you should put your knife and fork on both sides of the plate in a figure of eight. On the contrary, the knife and fork handles are placed side by side on the plate, which means that the dish has been used well and the waiter will remove the plate. For appetizers or desserts, if it is a dish that can be eaten directly with a fork, there is no need to deliberately use a knife. At family dinners or casual dinners with friends, soft dishes such as salad or egg-wrapped rice can also be eaten with only forks. But using a knife and fork at a formal banquet can give people a more elegant and neat feeling. In addition, in Europe and other places, people can often be seen eating with a fork in their right hand and bread in their left hand. No matter how neat and elegant you eat, this kind of dining can only be done in family or popular shops, and it is absolutely not feasible in high-end restaurants.

The unused knife can be put on the table like this, and the waiter will automatically take it away. Although putting the knife and fork together on the plate is a message to end the meal, it is not necessary to put the clean knife into the dirty plate specially. Unused tableware can be left in its original place, but it is strange to insist on the rules of form. It is the most correct to improvise and deal with things according to the situation at that time. Even if you drop it, it's not embarrassing, but it's embarrassing to bend down and pick it up yourself. So when you drop something, you'd better ask the waiter to come and pick it up for you. The waiter always pays attention to the guest's situation, so he will bring new tableware soon. In case the waiter doesn't notice, he can raise his hand slightly to the waiter and try not to attract other people's attention. The waiter's job is to make the guests have a more enjoyable meal, so ask them as much as possible.