restaurantware

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noun

Tableware designed for use in restaurants.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounrestaurantware (uncountable)
  1. uncountableTableware designed for use in restaurants.

    Madeline collects i950s-era poodle dishes by Glidden and restaurantware featuring turquoise polka dots.

    2004, “Shopkeepers”, in Vicki L. Ingham, editor, Trade Secrets: Insider Advice on Creating Your Own Personal Style, Des Moines, Iowa: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 122
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    These neoclassic-pattern ironstone portion plates are really a very fancy restaurantware made by Booths of England; […]

    1988, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart’s Quick Cook Menus: Fifty-two Meals You Can Make in Under an Hour, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., →ISBN, page 107

    The thick, friendly china that furnished America’s childhood at diners and family restaurants like the International House of Pancakes and Mister Donut rubs alongside of the slightly more upscale restaurantware from sources such as the Hotel Dupont, The Houston Club, and even The International Monetary Fund.

    1995, Bo Niles, Veronica McNiff, The New York Book of Tea: Where to Take Tea and Buy Tea & Teaware, New York, N.Y.: City & Company, →ISBN, page 75

    The baked apple pie, in a restaurantware nappy bowl, is tender enough to eat with a delicate coin-silver spoon.

    1996, Peri Wolfman, Charles Gold, Great Settings, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 18

    They were chunky, heavy, standard diner restaurantware, and this was meant to be a light and elegant social affair with fine china and silverware.

    2000, Judy Allen, Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide to Successful Meetings, Corporate Events, Fundraising Galas, Conferences, Conventions, Incentives and Other Special Events, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd, →ISBN, page 57

    Manufactured by Wood & Sons in England and supplied by Gowans Kent & Company of Toronto, the heavy, vitrified restaurantware of the company china featured a simple design of three green bands with a crest.

    2012, Ornamentum: Decorative Arts in Canada, Canadian Society of Decorative Arts, page 11

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