Place the plate in front of each diner with a fork on the left, above the napkin or between the napkin and the plate. The folded side of the napkin is facing the plate, the knife is usually placed on the right side of the plate, and the blade is facing the plate.
If you need to place several pieces of the same type of cutlery on the table (such as salad forks and dinner forks), place them in the order they are used from outside to inside (if you put salad first, place the salad fork on the left side of the dinner fork and the cake fork On the right side of the dinner fork). With one exception, a coffee or teaspoon is placed on the right side of the knife.
If one day you want to have an informal dinner and serve several dishes, then you need some extra cutlery. At this time, the dessert spoon and fork should be placed above the dinner plate, and the spoon should be placed horizontally next to the plate, with the spoon handle facing right, the fork above the spoon, and the fork handle facing left.
Suppose you have some plates of different sizes. You should use them to serve dishes according to the same principle: eat on the left and drink on the right. Extra plates (salad, bread butter) or salad bowls are placed on the left side of the table, above the fork. If the salad bowl is too large, place it next to the fork with its top flush with the tip of the fork.
The glass is on the right side of the table, above the knife. If you serve wine and water at the same time, place a glass of water above the knife and a wine glass on the right side.