serves
v.v. to provide a service or help to someone. You also use it when you give food or drink to a guest.
v. to perform duties or services for another person or an organisation; to provide food or drink to a customer or guest.
The waiter serves breakfast until ten o'clock.
The local community centre serves as a meeting place for elderly residents every Tuesday afternoon.
While the restaurant primarily serves traditional Italian cuisine, the chef occasionally introduces experimental fusion dishes to the seasonal menu to gauge customer interest.
The verb is transitive when providing food or a service to someone, but can be intransitive when describing a general role.
The waiter serves to me the soupThe waiter serves me the soupWhen 'serve' means giving food, it takes a direct object (the person) or a double object (the person and the food) without 'to'.