Serving cart facts for kids

A serving cart is like a small, wheeled table that helps people move and show off food and drinks. You often see them in restaurants, where they make it easy for waiters to bring meals or desserts right to your table. They're also used in homes, perhaps to serve snacks or drinks when friends visit.

Serving carts with dim sum and breakfast pastries

Different Kinds of Serving Carts

• Dessert Carts: Imagine a cart filled with yummy cakes, cookies, and pastries! These carts are often rolled around restaurants so you can pick your favorite dessert right there. In some places, especially in the UK, they might be called a "sweet trolley."
• Dim sum Carts: If you've ever been to a Chinese restaurant that serves dim sum, you've probably seen these! Dim sum carts have a special heated section to keep small, delicious dishes like dumplings and buns warm in bamboo steamers. Servers can wheel them around to show you the different options.
• Cocktail or Wine Carts: These carts are used to serve drinks. They might hold bottles of juice, water, or other beverages, along with glasses.
• Airline service trolleys: When you fly on an airplane, the flight attendants use these special carts to bring meals and drinks to passengers. They are designed to fit perfectly in the narrow aisles of the plane and have many shelves to hold everything.

Gallery

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  A serving cart for drinks, shown in a drawing from 1920.

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  An Airline service trolley being used on a plane around 2004.

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  A Dim sum serving cart in Chicago, 2006.

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  A wheeled dessert cart on display in a museum in Budapest, 2014.

See also

In Spanish: Carrito de servicio para niños