Table Manners Advice
How to never use the wrong plate at a round table.
Round table roulette
Don’t you hate those darn round tables? At least at a square table it seems pretty obvious that all your plates are at your side of the table. Round tables test people’s dining etiquette knowledge.
Which bread plate is yours? Is it the one on your right or is your bread plate on your left? What if you take someone else’s plate?
What do you do, flip a coin?
Flip a coin, heads or tails? Or do you wait and hope that everybody else knows their table manners and gets it right so you end up with the proper bread plate? You don’t want to look rude or unsophisticated.