Cutlery gestures which reflects your thoughts about food

How often have you wondered what is the right way to place your cutlery on the table or on your plate. Should you cross them or place them on the sides of your plate or should they be kept with face up. In fact the way you keep your cutlery might have a meaning and it may gesture something you don't know-like asking for more food, conveying that the meal was good or saying that you are done with your meal. Here are some cutlery gestures that all fine diners should know.

02/9​“I am ready to eat”

If you keep your cutlery this way, it means that you are about to start the meal.

“I am not finished”

This means that you are talking to someone and have paused eating.

"I am ready for my next meal”

If you keep the cutlery this way, then it means you are ready to eat the next dish.

​“I did not enjoy the meal”

When you do not like the taste of the food, you keep the cutkery by crossing this way.

​“The meal was excellent”

This way indicates that you liked the food and appreciate it.

​“I will surely come again”

Keeping the fork upside down on the plate means you will definitely come again.

​“I did not like the service”

Inserting the knife into fork tines indicates you did not enjoy the service.

​“I am finished”

Keeping the cutlery parallel to each other means you are done.