Lefties: Do staff notice your handedness during meals?

We recently had a pair of meals with a left-handed family member. It's the first time we've been to any sort of fine dining with him, and at the first meal - Roots (*), in York - they noticed after the first course that he was left-handed, and confirmed with him at the next course. They proceeded to set his place opposite to ours for the rest of the meal.

At our next meal - Story (**), in London) - they not only failed to notice, but on at least one occasion he switched the sides of his silverware before the dish had arrived, and they switched the silverware back to its original placement.

This left me wondering: For those of you who are left-handed, do staff take note? And do they alter your place settings? Watching it happen at Roots took us back to our first fine dining experience, when we were wowed by the simple act of folding our napkins when we stepped away to the toilets!