Serving cart

A serving cart is a kind of smaller food cart.^[1] It is typically used by restaurants to deliver or display food.^[1]

Serving carts with dim sum and breakfast pastries

Serving carts are also used in households, airplanes, and trains.^[2]

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