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Kitchen
Table Settings everything you
need to know to set your kitchen table the right way
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Example of a Four-Course
Formal Meal Kitchen Table Setting
(Service plate will be replaced by dinner plate.
Dessert will be served separately.)
- name (for place card)
- soup bowl (on soup bowl)
- plate (on plate)
- salad fork (smaller fork,
closer to napkin, on left)
- dinner fork (larger fork,
closer to plate)
- service plate (in center
setting until replaced by dinner plate)
- dinner plate (in center
setting)
- bread-and-butter plate (above
forks, left of dinner plate)
- bread-and-butter knife (placed
across bread-and-butter plate)
- soup bowl (on service plate)
- salad knife (smaller knife,
between spoon, dinner knife on right side of plate)
- dinner knife (larger knife,
next to plate)
- napkin (napkin, on left, to
left of forks)
- soup spoon (soup spoon on far
right of knives)
- water goblet (goblet to
farthest left)
- white wine (goblet in center)
- red wine (goblet, far right)
Example of
Informal Kitchen Table Setting
 - dinner plate (in center of setting)
- salad plate (to left of forks)
- bread-and-butter plate (above
forks, left of dinner plate)
- bread-and-butter knife (placed
across plate)
- dinner fork (larger fork, to
left of plate)
- salad fork (smaller fork, to
left of dinner fork)
- dinner knife (larger knife, to
right of plate)
- salad knife (smaller knife, to
right of dinner knife)
- water goblet (to upper right
of plate, left glass of the two, and larger)
- wine goblet (right of water
goblet and smaller)
- dinner napkin (could be placed
in center of plate)
Example
of Casual Kitchen Table Setting
 - dinner
plate (in center of setting)
- salad
plate (upper left)
- beverage
glass (to upper right of plate)
- dinner
fork (larger fork, to left of plate)
- salad
fork (smaller fork, to left of dinner fork)
- dinner
knife (larger knife, to right of plate)
- teaspoon
(to right of knife)
- dinner napkin (could be placed
in center of plate)
Source:
Winn-Dixie.com
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