Crockery
The jug and cup should be placed on the table with the handle to the right, on the assumption that the customer is right-handed.
To put the cup down with the handle to the left, or the top, so that the customer has to move it, is sloppy and insulting.
Cutlery
England is the only country in the world which has soup spoons, a friend told me. That explains why the overseas staff nowadays hand you a soup spoon with your dessert.
Just in case any foreigners are reading this and want to know, the soup spoon has a circular bowl.
England is also unusual in preserving the custom of a dessert fork to go with the dessert spoon.
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