How to properly serve a table in a restaurant?

Table setting in a restaurant is very important and plays a significant role. Proper design of the table is a sign of high-class institutions and the professionalism of the waiters. The article will discuss who should control and be responsible for the rules of serving dishes to the banquet.

Proper design and decoration of tables in restaurants is the very first and main tool for attracting visitors and guests. After all, the opinion of the restaurant among the visitors is formed, based not only on the quality of the prepared dishes, but also on the table setting and the overall interior of the establishment. A beautifully served table, the proper serving of ordered dishes - increases the status and makes the restaurant more attractive.

Each restaurant has its own characteristics. Under them, people are used to implying a special menu, and an expensive interior, and some evening music program, for example. For some visitors, the feature of the place is its name.

In fact, the features of this status and attractive restaurant are in the usual little things. This includes tablecloths, wine glasses, cutlery, napkins, vessels with flowers, plates, candlesticks, and other attributes. All of them are components of the serving process in the restaurant complex.

There are two ways of serving - preliminary and executive (main).

The executive method is applied at a predetermined menu. It is used at banquets and other festive events, where everything is specified in advance in advance. A pre-serving is called the preparatory procedure of the hall for the upcoming festive event.

The preliminary method of preparing the table is carried out in all catering establishments, regardless of the level of the institution. It serves as a kind of addition to the interior in the hall. This decoration involves a limited number of devices that will serve for further use in the maintenance process.

Objects of this type of serving include:

• patty plates;
• wine glasses;
• Spice Devices;
• napkins;
• flower pot with artificial or lively flower arrangement.

Addition and change of the list of devices is regulated by the type and nature of the service - it is breakfast, dinner ceremony or dinner. This process can be easy or difficult. To have breakfast, you need a pie plate, snacks, a wine glass, and a cloth napkin. At lunch you should submit a plate for bread, a knife, a fork, a spoon, a glass, napkins, a spice rack, a jar of flowers.

The word “serving” is translated as preparing the table for dishes, when all the dishes are arranged in a certain order. In the restaurant when serving you need to adhere to the correct order:

• The very first thing the table is covered with a tablecloth. This is a delicate work, you need to do it so that the tablecloth does not fit.
• Next, porcelain or earthenware dishes (various shapes and sizes of plates) are exposed.
• It should be the turn for the devices. These are forks, spoons, knives and accessories, this is related to the menu.
• Next put crystal or glass. Wine glasses, glasses and glasses should be presented properly - holding the leg.The number of glasses on the table depends on what alcoholic beverages will be served during the feast.
• It was the turn of napkins.
• Next is the arrangement of devices for spices, various candelabra and flower vessels.

An integral part of the serving is a cloth napkin. It develops to become a serving destination. For a banquet, for a festive feast, it becomes cone-shaped. There are other options for the calculation of napkins.

Set the table is not necessarily in the classical style. Sometimes you need to give vent to fantasy and dreams. There is a French style, both Ukrainian and Russian, but the thematic component must be present and coincide both with the style of the interior of the hall and with other common areas (for example, a terrace). Proper serving is a whole science, the purpose of which is to arrange the devices in such a way that it is convenient for guests. All standards must also be met.

You can add a waiter to the professional restaurant serving and the interior of the restaurant, which should effectively fit into the full picture.

As practice shows, an ugly or tastelessly served table in a restaurant can spoil not only the guests' appetite, but also discourage the desire to visit this institution again. In order for the table setting to be perfect and to delight guests and visitors, you need to remember some nuances:

• Before you start serving the table, you need to check all items and appliances for cleanliness, for example, dishes washed to a crunch and polished to a shine. Also check how perfect ironed and starched napkins and tablecloths.
• All items involved in serving should be combined with each other, be in the same style.
• Always consider seasonality. If there is a fierce winter outside the window, in decorating the table and the restaurant, warm shades that warm the soul will not be superfluous. If this is summer, then add a little coolness to the serving items.
• Always check the condition of the spices container, it is very important. For example, so that the salt is not wet.

In the decoration of tables in restaurants, as in any field of activity, there are fashion trends, as well as sunk into oblivion. After all, the restaurant can surprise not only a table covered with exotic food, but also a non-standard approach to serving.

If you follow the fashion trends in the setting of the banquet table, then you can apply several options for its design:

• Abandon the classic white dishes and go for pastel colors, for example, serve the table with dishes of the color of the ashes of roses, which will add some romanticism to the feast.
• Decorate the table in the Italian style with the use of dishes in a streamlined form, which is very popular in Europe and beyond.

• If you want to make an impression on visitors, then organizing buffets, presentations, business meetings, it would be nice to decorate the table with premium class dishes with elements of relief and ornament in a combination of haze and gloss at the same time.

But, the main thing in the restaurant business is an understanding of what you are doing, and then all the love, warmth, sensuality will be conveyed to visitors.

Special training video on table setting in a restaurant, see below.