thumb|Serving carts with dim sum and breakfast pastries A '''serving cart''' is a kind of smaller food cart.<ref name="Van Pelt 1995">{{cite book | last=Van Pelt | first=N. L. | title=Creative Hospitality | publisher=Review and Herald Pub. Association | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-8280-0894-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1fWflmb5sQC&pg=PA80 | access-date=December 12, 2017 | page=80}}</ref> It is typically used by restaurants to deliver or display food.<ref name="Van Pelt 1995"/>
Serving carts are also used in households, airplanes, and trains.<ref>{{cite book | title=Popular Science | date=March 1980 | publisher=Bonnier Corporation | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4ODjVe3M21QC | access-date=December 12, 2017 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4ODjVe3M21QC/page/n118 123]}}</ref>
==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. * Guéridon trolley – Used in tableside guéridon service to prepare or finish dishes.
==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="165"> 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 </gallery>
==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
== References == {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book | last1=Frid | first1=T. | last2=Frid | first2=E. | last3=Frid | first3=P. A. | title=Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking | publisher=Taunton Press | issue=bk. 3 | year=2005 | isbn=978-1-56158-834-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDOWDsCQ3egC&pg=PA109 | access-date=December 12, 2017 | page=109}} * {{cite book | last1=Press | first1=E. C. S. | last2=Group | first2=N. A. M. | title=Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Outdoor Carpentry, Updated 2nd Edition: Complete Plans for Beautiful Backyard Building Projects | publisher=Cool Springs Press | series=Black & Decker Complete Guide | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-62788-370-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MllmBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 | access-date=December 12, 2017 | page=86}} * {{cite book | last1=Stone | first1=H. | last2=Sidel | first2=J. L. | last3=Taylor | first3=S. | title=Sensory Evaluation Practices: Food and Science Technology Series | publisher=Elsevier Science | series=Food Science and Technology | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-323-13976-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwSJxQ1bd1QC&pg=PA260 | access-date=December 12, 2017 | page=260}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Serving carts}}
Category:Hand carts Category:Serving and dining