Fastfood, casual or fine dining? (Part 3)

When it comes to details, standards and pageantry, fine dining restaurants would be on top of the list. If there is anything that should differentiate a fine dining restaurant is its elegance and price. Elegance and price in everything! Menu price, price of cutlery, dinnerware, linen, ingredients, furnishings, decors, music, everything! These have to be all justified by great food and even greater service.

A fine dining restaurant requires waiters who know how to serve different fine dining types of service like wine service, Russian and French. Waiters have to be familiar with proper order and manner of service of certain menu items.

A fine dining restaurant's table setup is usually composed of dinner knife, dinner spoon and fork, dessert fork or spoon, soup spoon, charger or soup bowl for initial setup, table napkin. For glassware, there should be a water goblet and wine glass.

It's a different game altogether if the restaurant is themed. Like if it is a Chinese restaurant, there will be an assortment of spices needed, chopsticks and chopsticks holder.Food is usually served one at a time. The food should be served in this order, whichever is ordered.

1. Appetizer (soup or hors d'oeuvre)
   
2. Entree
3. Salad
   
4. Dessert
5. Coffee or tea

A lot of times, fine dining restaurants have individual servings, have a rather more formal setting and quieter than most casual type restaurants.