Crockery
The type of crockery used by an establishment can vary depending on the menu items
offered, the style of service provided, and the required image the property wishes to
create.
Crockery may be ‘badged’ with the name of the venue, or be unbadged.
Traditionally, crockery is white, but many color options exist that can be used to blend
with a theme.
Standard types of crockery are:
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Side Plate Cappuccino Set
Fruit Plate Tall Tea Cup
Dessert Plate Stackable Set
Entrée Plate Coffee Set
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Main Plate Saucers
Show Plate Tea Pot
Platter Coffee Pot
Soup Bowl Consommé Bowl
Breakfast
Bouillon Cup
Bowl
Cloche/Dome Salad bowl
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Salt and Pepper
Soup Tureen
Grinders
Sugar Bowl Sauce Boat
Milk Jug Escargot Plate
Bud Vase Oyster Plate
Glassware
Usually, wine glasses and water glasses are set on tables in the room and it may be the
waiter’s responsibility to do this, ensuring the glassware is clean of marks, chips, cracks
and lipstick.
Cutlery
A wide range of cutlery can be used in a food and beverage facility: the following are
commonly used items:
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Large Knife – Large Spoon. –
Main course. Serving.
Small Knife – Medium Spoon –
Entrée course, Desserts and
buttering, pâté, pasta.
cheese and fruit.
Steak Knife – Soup Spoon
Steak. (round) – Soup.
Fish Knife – Fish Small Spoon (tea)
(and some – Teas, coffee,
seafood items) prawn cocktails,
and lifting ice cream, sugar
delicate items. coupes and
sorbets.
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Cheese Knife. Parfait Spoon
(long handle) –
Desserts and ice
cream.
Carving Knife – Escargot Tongs –
Slicing roast and Snails.
cutting large
items.
Bread Knife – Lobster Picks –
Slicing bread and Lobster/crayfish.
rolls.
Large Fork – Lobster Cracker –
Main course and Lobster/crayfish/
serving
Small Fork – Gateau Slice –
Entree, pasta, Cakes and flans
salad, dessert,
and fruit.
Fish Fork – Ladle – Soup and
Oysters and sauces
prawn cocktails.
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Long Pronged
Fork – Snails
(Escargot).