Top Customer Reviews. Interesting reading for anyone from Fairmount, Sugar Creek, Independence, or even Kansas City, MO. You will recognize street and name places and be able to use your imagination to visualize things from more than a century ago.
The napkins are set to the left of the fork. More formal or fancy settings can put the napkin in the center of the service plate. Many times the napkin will be folded and placed in the empty water glass. Luncheon and dinner napkins are treated the same, they are just a different size.
1 If salad will be served with the main course, or if the salad fork will be used as a dessert fork, it is placed at the right of the dinner fork, next to the plate.  The dessert fork and spoon can also be placed above the plate (this is European-style). The spoon, with its handle to the right, goes above the fork.