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Serving cart facts for kids

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Serving carts with dim sum and breakfast pastries

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.

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

  • Tea dance as pictured by Marguerite Martyn, 1920

    Cocktail-cart service in drawing by Marguerite Martyn, 1920

  • Serving dim sum steamers by erocka in Chicago

    Dim sum serving cart in Chicago, 2006

  • RocaOnWheels. Dessert Car. Exhibit of 'Tapas - Spanish Design for Food'. Budapest Museum of Applied Arts

    A wheeled dessert cart in a Budapest museum, 2014

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Carrito de servicio para niños

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