To solve the problem of the roughening of the food surface and the deterioration of the quality caused by the adhesion of the creams on both cut faces in the case of cutting a cream-coated food such as a cake by a cutter.

A disk-shaped cake is placed and positioned on a circular dividing rotary table I and a fan-shaped cake is produced by the vertical motion of a cutter and the rotation of the dividing table I. The food-holding face 1 of the food-placing table P has a convex form having a slightly lifted center part. The holding face 1 may have a form having a flat horizontal center area 1a and an inclined circumferential part 1b encircling the center area 1a slightly raising the face toward the center.