Tableware is the dishes normally used for setting a table, serving food in the dining table. It includes cutlery, glassware, serving dishes and other useful items for practical as well as decorative purposes. Special occasions are usually reflected in higher quality tableware. Dinnerware is another term used to refer to tableware and crockery refers to ceramic dishes in everyday use as differentiated them from the fine porcelain and bone china. Table settings or place settings are the dishes, cutlery and glassware used for formal and informal dining. In Bangladesh such items are normally referred to as thala, the word being an English language phonetic spelling of the word plate, the town from which so much dish came. Setting the table refers to arranging the tableware, including individual place settings for each diner at the table as well as decorating the table itself in a manner suitable for the occasion. Tableware and table decoration is typically more elaborate for special occasions. Unusual dining locations demand tableware be adapted.