What Is a Breakfast Table?

There is a place to start the day with family; a place of solitude for you, your newspaper, and your coffee; a place to entertain on an elaborate scale--it is the breakfast table. Does this Spark an idea?

Breakfast Table

A typical breakfast table setting

By definition, the breakfast table is simply a place to consume the first meal of the day, according to the website wordnetweb.princeton.edu.

Sizes

This small breakfast table seats four.

Breakfast tables are usually smaller in size compared to kitchen and dining room tables. Breakfast tables normally seat two, four, or six people.

Types

This is a breakfast nook or booth.

There are tables, and there are nooks. Some nooks have just the table with a bench, and some are a booth style. Wordnetweb.princeton.edu defines breakfast nook as a place to have smaller meals.

Elaboration

This is an example of a formal breakfast table setting.

A formal breakfast table consists of a specific menu, fruit, cereal, toast, marmalade, eggs, and meat. Coffee in a silver serving pot is properly placed in front of the hostess, according to "Table Service," by Lucy Grace Allen.

Reasons

This is a prime example of a small area with a breakfast table.

Small apartments and small meals are good reasons for having a breakfast table in the kitchen, as described on Treehugger.com.