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A serving cart is a kind of smaller food cart. It is typically used by restaurants to deliver or display food.
Serving carts are also used in households, airplanes, and trains.
File:Tea_dance_as_pictured_by_Marguerite_Martyn,_1920.jpg, Cocktail-cart service in drawing by Marguerite Martyn, 1920
File:Inflight service.jpg, Airline service trolley, about 2004
File:Serving dim sum steamers by erocka in Chicago.jpg,
A serving cart is a kind of smaller food cart. It is typically used by restaurants to deliver or display food.
Serving carts are also used in households, airplanes, and trains.
Types
* Dessert cart (known as a sweet trolley in the UK) – This is mainly used in restaurants where it is wheeled from table to table allowing customers to select a dessert. *Dim sum
Dim sum () is a large range of small Chinese dishes that are traditionally enjoyed in restaurants for brunch. Most modern dim sum dishes are commonly associated with Cantonese cuisine, although dim sum dishes also exist in other Chinese cu ...
cart – Used in Chinese restaurants, this type of cart contains a steam table to keep the bamboo steamers hot. It may be wheeled by servers from table to table or be stationary.
* Cocktail or wine cart
* Airline service trolley – This standardized cart contains numerous shelves to hold passenger meals. The top surface may be used for beverages.
Gallery
Dim sum
Dim sum () is a large range of small Chinese dishes that are traditionally enjoyed in restaurants for brunch. Most modern dim sum dishes are commonly associated with Cantonese cuisine, although dim sum dishes also exist in other Chinese cu ...
serving cart in Chicago, 2006
File:RocaOnWheels. Dessert Car. Exhibit of 'Tapas - Spanish Design for Food'. Budapest Museum of Applied Arts.JPG, A wheeled dessert cart in a Budapest museum, 2014
See also
* Food cart – a mobile kitchen that is set up on the street to facilitate the sale and marketing of street food to people * Lazy Susan *List of restaurant terminology
This is a list of restaurant terminology. A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with a running tab. Meals are generally served and eaten ...
* Tray
A tray is a shallow platform designed for the carrying of items. It can be fashioned from numerous materials, including silver, brass, sheet iron, paperboard, wood, melamine, and molded pulp. Trays range in cost from inexpensive molded pulp tray ...
* TV tray table
References
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