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
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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.
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Dim sum 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.
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Cocktail or wine cart
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Airline service trolley – This standardized cart contains numerous shelves to hold passenger meals. The top surface may be used for beverages.
Gallery
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|Dim sum 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
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Food cart – a mobile kitchen that is set up on the street to facilitate the sale and marketing of street food to people
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Lazy Susan
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List of restaurant terminology
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Tray
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TV tray table
Further reading
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