Serving cart

A serving cart is a kind of smaller food cart. It is typically used by restaurants to deliver or display food.

Serving carts with dim sum and breakfast pastries

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 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

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  Cocktail-cart service in drawing by Marguerite Martyn, 1920
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  Airline service trolley, about 2004
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  Dim sum serving cart in Chicago, 2006
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  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
• Tray
• TV tray table

Further reading

• Frid, T.; Frid, E.; Frid, P. A. (2005). Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking. Taunton Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-56158-834-3. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
• Press, E. C. S.; Group, N. A. M. (2014). Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Outdoor Carpentry, Updated 2nd Edition: Complete Plans for Beautiful Backyard Building Projects. Black & Decker Complete Guide. Cool Springs Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-62788-370-2. Retrieved December 12, 2017. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
• Stone, H.; Sidel, J. L.; Taylor, S. (2012). Sensory Evaluation Practices: Food and Science Technology Series. Food Science and Technology. Elsevier Science. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-323-13976-2. Retrieved December 12, 2017.

External links

• Media related to Serving carts at Wikimedia Commons