What is the importance of table setting?

The way you set your table is important, because it influences three things: It indicates the tone/feeling
that people have about being together. It lets people know that you think they are important enough to put
in extra effort for them. It influences the appearance of the food served.

Basic Table Setting Etiquette

If you're getting things ready for an everyday dinner or a weekend breakfast, you might want to know
how to set a table properly. For casual events, one needs just a basic table setting: a placemat, cutlery
(fork, knife, and spoon), a dinner plate, a water glass, and a napkin.

Basic Table Setting Etiquette Tips

If you prefer, it is acceptable to set the napkin on top of the plate in a basic table setting, though some
think this can create a more formal feeling.

Casual Table Setting

The basic table setting, and the casual table setting are nearly identical, but in a casual table setting, there
is the addition of a soup bowl and a dinner plate. As a general rule, only set out the glassware, tableware,
and flatware that you're going to be using. If you're not having a salad course, all you need to set is a
dinner fork. If you're only serving white wine, a red wine glass is not needed. And if there's no soup
course, skip the soup bowl and spoon.

Casual Table Setting Etiquette Tips

If using individual salt and pepper shakers for each guest, place them at the top of the placemat.
Otherwise, place them near the center of the table, or, if using a long, rectangular table, place them in the
middle of each end.

Formal Table Setting

A formal table setting includes many pieces: a tablecloth, chargers, dinner plates, soup bowls, salad
plates, bread plates, napkins, salad forks, dinner forks, knives, soup spoons, butter knives, dessert spoons,
water glasses, red wine glasses, and white wine glasses. Though this may sound overwhelming, if you
know how to set a casual table, it's a very easy leap to knowing how to set a table with charger plates. To
see all of this in motion, check out this video on how to lay out a proper table setting.

Formal Table Setting Etiquette Tips

After the soup course is complete and the bowls are cleared, a salad plate will take the soup bowl's
position. Traditionally, a charger holds the spot for the dinner plate, and is removed after the salad course
so the place is never bare. If you do not want to clear the table after the soup course and bring out dinner
plates, you can place a dinner plate on top of the charger.

Russian Service
Service à la russe (French: “service in the Russian style”) is a manner of dining that involves
courses being brought to the table sequentially. It contrasts with service à la française (“service
in the French style”) in which all the food is brought out at once in an impressive display.

French Service

Service à la française (“service in the French style”) is when food is brought out at once in a big display.
It originates from the French court and for modern diners is an impressive event that makes them feel like
they’ve been transported back in time to the French courts. Formal dinners were served à la française
from the Middle Ages until the 19th century.
American Service
This style of silver service table setting is typically used in less formal events. Such as when you
want your cuisine catered, prepared and plated in the kitchen.  It is an efficient and simple
choice.  Service is approached from the left and cleared from the right.  Functional and easy to
manage, this is a technique that is used around the world.

Silver service (in British English) is a method of foodservice at the table, with waiter

transferring food from a serving dish to the guest's plate, always from the left. It is performed by
a waiter by using service forks and spoons from the diner's left.

Buffet is a self-service style where the guests serve themselves. This style is a great method for
feeding large numbers of people with minimal help. The dinner buffet is the most practical and
congenial way in which to care for your guests.

À la Carte is a menu type which includes a wider variety of courses that are individually priced.

Table d'hôte is the menu type consisting only of a set number of courses offered for a set price.

The Function Definition (Menu) screen is made up of two screens used to specify the
characteristics of runtime menu screens and the responses to be listed on that menu.

Breakfast (sometimes called Continental Breakfast) is usually pastries and bread, etc. whereas
American Breakfast includes hot items like eggs, sausages, etc.