Plate Confusion While Dining - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Has this ever happened to you? You have sat down at a busy busy table, it is really crowded, there is a lot of items on the table. There is bread plates, glasses, you do not know which one is yours. Which glass to use, which bread plate. There is a really great trick that you can use to help you navigate your place setting. Simply, put your fingers together like this, and if you look at your left hand it makes a b, so if you hold your left hand over your place setting, the b stands for bread, your bread plate is always on the left of your place setting. Now, the d on your right hand, stands for drinks, so if you hold them over your place setting, you know that your drinks or your glasses are always on the right of your place setting. That way, when you do that trick, and you should do it under the tables, so no one else sees you do it, you know which bread plate to use and which glasses to use. Now there is one other trick that you can use to remember. If you like BMW's or even if you do not, you can say to yourself B-M-W. Bread comes first on the left, Meal is in the middle, Water or your glasses are on the right. B-M-W there you go, you will never be confused about which bread plate or which glass to use again.