When eating, how do you hold your silverwares?
- If you are talking and haven’t finished eating your meal, you shouldn’t hold your silverwares in your hands. Rest them on your plate in an upside down V with the tips of the utensils facing towards each other.
- For a meal with several courses, place your knife and fork in a cross on the plate, with the fork pointing vertical and the knife pointing horizontal.
- If you really enjoyed the meal and want to show your server, place your knife and fork horizontally across the plate with the blade and tines pointing right.
- Place your knife and fork together in the centre of the plate, pointing to twelve o’clock. This will indicate to your attendee that you have finished.
- The correct etiquette for indicating you didn’t like the meal is to place your knife’s blade through the fork’s tines in a V.