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TABLE SERVICE

which side each thing arrives from, in what order the table is served, and what the hand may touch

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

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A4 · A3 · A2
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Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
food · everyone · memo · kitchen

The sides, the order of service and the handling follow the United States Navy manual NAVEDTRA 15008 (Culinary Specialist, chapter 9); the limit of touch follows the FDA Food Code 2022, § 4-904.11. Silverware is used from the outside in: the outermost piece belongs to the first course.

THE PLATE THAT NEVER HOLDS FOOD

At a formal dinner a large service plate stands on the table before anyone sits down, and it stays there through the first courses. Food is never placed on it: the dishes of the first course are set upon it, and it is taken away only when the heated dinner plate arrives to replace it for the main course.

The manual states the reason outright: it is considered bad form for the diners not to have plates before them throughout the meal. The object exists so that nobody sits in front of bare cloth.

The same reason explains the order of clearing: the soup plate, the service plate and the soup spoon go together, and the place in front of a guest is first left empty only when the crumbs are brushed off the cloth before dessert.

On the sheet

  • The sides, the order of service and the handling follow the United States Navy manual NAVEDTRA 15008 (Culinary Specialist, chapter 9); the limit of touch follows the FDA Food Code 2022, § 4-904.11. Silverware is used from the outside in: the outermost piece belongs to the first course.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 8 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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