Tea Carts Types and Styles

Take the burden out of catering with durable and well-designed mobile tea carts

By Michele Vrouvas
Tea carts serve many functions in the foodservice business. An industrial-grade tea serving cart provides your cooks and utility staff with a dependable means of storing and transporting foods, beverages and other necessities. Also functional but with eye-catching appeal are pleasant-looking antique tea carts made of wicker, teak or glass that you can use for special occasions, such as in-home catering or showy outdoors events.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of online sources where you can find a variety of tea carts types and styles. Consider these options:

1. Choose high performing stainless steel tea carts when your kitchen staff need to transport food.

2. Cater with style when you choose delicately designed serving carts.

3. Depend on heavy duty patio carts when you're entertaining outside.

 

Find a stainless steel tea cart ideal for kitchen and catering use

Stainless steel tea carts are durable and easy to clean. While some may be attractive enough to use for serving food and beverages, most were designed as either a folding tea cart or a piece of rugged industrial-grade equipment that high-production restaurant kitchens depend on.
Try: On the high end, you'll find an attractive Silver Collection Tea Cart made of teak from Design Within Reach, which won an award from the American Society of Furniture Designers. Less attractive but just as functional are the stainless steel carts from Ace Mart, which can manage 300 to 400-lb. loads. Superior Products' ruggedly designed tea carts come with either two or three shelves, chrome posts and the capacity to hold 500 lbs. Perfect for holding catering trays are stainless steel tea carts from Big Tray, which can hold five full metal restaurant trays and feature canisters with brakes.

Entertain with attractively designed serving carts

If you're catering for small groups in private homes, you'll want to use tea carts types and styles with more delicate designs that help to create a more intimate mood.
Try: Perfect for entertaining is the wicker-wrapped aluminum frame tea cart with removal serving tray from Charleston Gardens. Get a Tiffany Teacart in lacquered white with pull out trays from The Find. Make an impression with the heavy duty Espresso Collection tea cart from Nextag, or with the three-tiered glass serving tea cart from Kitchencarts.

Depend on multi-functional patio tea carts for catering outdoors

When you want to make sure your outdoors catering runs smoothly and on time, depend on patio tea carts and even antique tea carts that conveniently hold food, beverages and other supplies close to where your customers are dining.
Try: Tea carts for sale at the Kitchen Source include a functional patio tea cart that comes in your choice of silver or bronze. Depend on the all-weather wicker Smith Hawken Tea Cart from Home and Garden that has two easy-to-clean shelves and two large wheels in the front that take the burden out of transporting food.


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