A dish with a seat is also called a meal with a seat. As the name implies, a dish with a seat is served in units of "seat" rather than "table". Linguistically, it may be that prepositional phrases are used as nouns. Serving is the concrete practice of "separate meal system" in catering. Because it involves separate meals, dishes pay more attention to ingredients, tastes and tableware. Generally, local dishes appear in more advanced hotels, guilds or hotels, far from the lives of ordinary people, and are more common in big cities. A person serving a dish, in addition to emphasizing the concept of health, is accompanied by beautiful and exquisite small elements, which seems to attract petty bourgeoisie more. In fact, there are also more fashionable restaurants to try this. On a larger scale, western food is basically local food, and most restaurants in Japan and South Korea can also be regarded as local food systems.

Generally speaking, the main difference between serving food and dividing food is that serving food is a manifestation of the system of dividing food, while dividing food is a cooking skill.