The table is usually covered with a tablecloth, tableware is usually placed in front of each diner before they are seated. These include: plates, knives and forks, spoons, bread plates, cups and napkins.

2. Tray

The tray does not hold the food directly, but functions as a combination of a decorative object and a tray.

The plate is placed in front of the diner, and the waiter puts the meal and the plate on the plate when he serves the meal; sometimes, the waiter takes the plate away when he serves the first meal.

Some restaurants do not place a tray on the table, and the waiter will place the meal and its plate directly on the table when serving.

3. Forks and knives

Forks are placed on the left side of the platter, knives on the right side of the platter, with the blade facing the platter, and spoons on the right side of the knives.

4, napkin

Can be placed either on the chassis or to the left of the fork.

5, cups

Cups are placed in front of the knife, the largest cup is a tall glass for water, the next largest is for red wine, and the long, thin glass is for white wine, and depending on the situation, there will also be glasses for champagne or sherry.

6. Bread and butter knives

This group is placed in front of or to the left of the plate. The butter knife is placed across the bread plate.

7, the order of knife and fork

Knife and fork in the chassis on both sides of the placement of a certain order, appetizers, soups, dishes, fish dishes, meat dishes, depending on what you need to use from the outside to the inside.

So, the knife and fork for tapas are on the outside.

8. Cutlery for sweets

Sometimes, cutlery for sweets is not served until later. This is because there is another rule of cutlery placement, which is that the number of any one type of cutlery in front of the diner should not exceed 3 (with the exception of cups).

If the meal is large and more than 3 pieces of any one type of cutlery are needed, the waiter will bring the needed cutlery on an ad hoc basis as needed.

9, spoon handles

In the United States, the handle of the spoon faces the right, and the handle of the fork faces the left; in Europe, both handles face the right.

10, coffee and tea cutlery

In most cases, coffee and tea cutlery last.

Then the coffee or tea cups are placed on a small saucer, and the spoons used to stir the coffee or tea are also placed on this small saucer.

11, keep the position unchanged

Because of the placement of tableware position is concerned, so the process of eating a variety of tableware should be kept in the original position. For example, after a sip of wine should be put back to the original place of the glass, however, once you have used the table fork, table spoon or table knife, can no longer put these tableware directly on the table.