Western food tableware arrangement process and standards
Dinner plate (decorative plate) → dinner knife, fork, spoon → bread plate → wine glass. After the tableware is set up, napkin flowers are placed in the dinner plate, vases, pepper shakers and salt shakers are placed in the center of the table, as well as toothpicks, ashtrays and candlesticks.
1. Display Tray
The tray can be used to hold the tray, or you can use your left hand to put a cloth on the tray. Mouth cloth pad in the bottom of the plate tray, the display tray, starting from the master position, in a clockwise direction with the right hand will be placed in front of the dining table, the plate edge from the edge of the table 1.5 centimeters, the distance between the plates should be equal.
2. Place bread and butter plates
Place the bread plate 10 centimeters to the left of the display plate. Bread plate and the center axis of the display plate to take flush, butter dish in front of the right side of the bread plate, 1.5 cm from the bread plate, the pattern is correct.
3. Place knives, forks and spoons from the right side of the display plate. Placement, you should hold the knife, fork, spoon handle, starting from the main knife.
(1) The main knife is placed on the right side of the display plate, perpendicular to the edge of the table, with the handle of the knife 1 centimeter from the edge of the table, and the blade of the knife to the left, 1 centimeter away from the display plate.
(2) Fish knife, head plate knife and soup ladle, placed 0.5 cm apart, blade to the left, ladle side up.
(3) The main fork is placed on the left side of the presentation plate, 1 cm from the presentation plate, with the fork handle 1 cm from the table edge.
(4) The fork is placed with the handle 5 cm from the table edge and the fork head protruding upwards. The fork of the starter fork (appetizer fork) faces upward, and the fork handle is parallel to the main fork handle.
(5) The dessert fork, placed directly in front of the dessert spoon, parallel to the spoon, with the head of the spoon to the left, is 1 cm away from the fork handle of the dessert fork.
(6) Butter knife, placed diagonally on the bread pan, blade to the left, center of butter knife coinciding with the centerline of the bread pan, handle facing down to the right, one-third of the way up the bread pan.
4. Arranging the Wine Set
When arranging the wine set, take the cup holder or the bottom of the glass of the wine set.
(1) the water glass is placed on top of the main knife, the center of the bottom of the cup is on the center line of the main knife, the bottom of the cup is 2 cm from the tip of the main knife.
(2) The red wine glass is placed to the lower right of the water glass, with the line between the center of the bottom of the glass and the center of the bottom of the water glass at an angle of 45° to the edge of the table, and the walls of the glass spaced 0 5 cm apart.
(3) The white wine glass is placed to the lower right of the red wine glass, and the other criteria are the same as above.
5. Placement of napkins
Folded napkin folded flowers in the display tray, napkin folded flowers with appropriate matching, the ornamental side towards the guests.
6. Candle holders and pepper, salt shakers
Western banquets are generally set two candle holders, candle holders placed in the center line of the tablecloth, the table on both sides of the appropriate position. Pepper and salt bottles should be placed symmetrically on the center line of the tablecloth according to the left salt and right pepper, bottle walls 0.5 cm apart, the bottom of the bottle and the candlestick table bottom distance of 2 cm.
7. Ashtray, matches
Ashtray should be placed in front of the host and the deputy host, its center in the host and the deputy host of the center of the vertical line of the display plate, from the pepper, salt bottle 2 cm. The matches are set flat on the upper end of the ashtray with the picture up. The ashtray is placed every other place, starting from the right side of the first owner.