serving cart
A serving cart is a kind of smaller food cart. It is typically used by restaurants to deliver or display food. • Illustration — Serving carts with dim sum and breakfast pastries Serving carts are also used in households, airplanes, and trains.
Also recorded as tea cart · tea trolley · food trolley · bar cart
serving cart
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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. • 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. • Guéridon trolley – Used in tableside guéridon service to prepare or finish dishes. • Hostess trolley - Used to move prepared food dishes to the dining table
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• Illustration — Cocktail-cart service in drawing by Marguerite Martyn, 1920 • Illustration — Airline service trolley, about 2004 • Illustration — Dim sum serving cart in Chicago, 2006 • Illustration — A wheeled dessert cart in a Budapest museum, 2014
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Berlin, Möbelfabrik, Teewagen Zentralbild Junge 2.3.1954 Berliner Betriebe produzieren zusätzlich Massenbedarfsgüter 100 Teewagen, 1000 Heuharken und 500 Schweißgeräte stellt der volkseigenen Betrieb Kabinenbau, Berlin N4, Chausseestraße
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- 1.Van Pelt, N. L. Creative Hospitality. Review and Herald Pub. Association. 80. 1995. 978-0-8280-0894-5.
- 2.Bonnier Corporation. Popular Science. 123. March 1980.
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