served
v.v. to give food or drink to someone, usually in a restaurant or at a party. It can also mean to work for an organization like the army or to help a community.
v. to provide food or drink to a customer or guest; to perform duties for an organization, government, or sovereign. Transitive when referring to the recipient of the service or the items provided.
The waiter served our dinner quickly.
The local bakery has served the neighborhood for over thirty years with fresh bread every morning.
Having served in the diplomatic corps for two decades, she possessed a nuanced understanding of international protocol that few of her younger colleagues could match.
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object (the person or the item). In sports like tennis, it is used intransitively to describe the act of starting a point.
The waiter served to us the wine.The waiter served us the wine.When 'serve' takes two objects (the person and the thing), it does not require the preposition 'to' before the person.