To provide an electrically-driven dinner serving vehicle for securely detecting the hold of the handle with hands, and for preventing unintended stop of traveling or the instability of traveling.

In an electrically-driven dinner serving vehicle being traveled by electric power and having both a heat-insulating chamber for heat insulating the food on a tray and a cold insulating chamber for cold insulating food, a handle 4 is fitted to the outer surface of the dinner serving vehicle, and an optical switch 5 for optically detecting the hold of the handle 4 with hands and for turning on or off the output of electric drive is provided in the handle 4. Thus, the optical detection is enabled by the optical switch 5, and the detection is not influenced by the gripping force of the handle 4.