On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:40:41 GMT, jt august > wrote:

>But the reason some restaurants don't distribute spoons is that it
>reduces silverware cleaning costs to not clean spoons that were never
>used. Those restaurants will give you a spoon a request....

Restaurants, including the very finest -- e.g., the French Laundry,
Topolobampo, and the Inn at Little Washington -- don't ever put out
full, formal silverware settings any more. They put out the implements
needed for the next course.

But any decent restaurant should automatic ally lay out a spoon
whenever the next course calls for one. And if you are clumsy, and
wouild prefer a spoon for some foodstuff that most people handle with
a fork, they should give you one upon request, making which you
shouldn't view as a hardship.

If not, eat at a better restaurant.

-- Larry