To provide a serving apparatus such as a serving cart in which a heating pattern for each food can be easily set even by an unskilled employee.

The serving apparatus such as the serving cart is provided with a partition chamber 6 for housing trays 17 for placing a plurality of plates on which foods are dished up and a heating device for heating the foods housed inside the chamber 6 by an operation according to the heating pattern set for each food, wherein the apparatus is additionally provided with a function of a pattern producing mode that produces and stores a heating pattern by monitoring a temperature of a food by a contact temperature sensor to heat the food while adjusting a heating output.