restaurantware

English

Etymology

From restaurant +‎ -ware.

Noun

restaurantware (uncountable)

1. Tableware designed for use in restaurants.
   • 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:

     These neoclassic-pattern ironstone portion plates are really a very fancy restaurantware made by Booths of England; […]

   • 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 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.

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

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

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

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

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

     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.

   • 2014, Jeffrey G. Dodd, Thom Caraway, editors, Railtown Almanac: A Spokane Poetry Anthology, Spokane, Wash.: Sage Hill Press, →ISBN, page 170:

     John Allen Taylor was an urban farmer and poem-writer in Spokane, where he socialized feral kittens, made candles, and collected restaurantware from the early 1930s.

   • 2022 July, April Hardwick, “What Is It? What Is It Worth?”, in Country Living, page 38:

     TEPCO was also amongst several restaurantware manufacturers commissioned to produce custom dinnerware for the Navy and during WWII supplied china to the U.S. Pacific fleet, where every day up to 30,000 pieces boasting nautical motifs made their way onto ships sailing from San Francisco.