Cup holder Cup holder A cup holder is a device, such as a zarf, to hold a cup or other drinking vessel. It may be free standing to hold cups securely on a desk or other flat surface, or in a tree style to store sets of cups in kitchens. They may be built into automobiles or chairs, or fixed to the walls of airplanes, boats, buses and trains. The development of the drive-in restaurant was a step in the cup holder's development. Servers would attach a tray that hooked over the car's side window, which needed to be left up a
Cup (unit) of coffee, or 6.8 metric cups of coffee. In older recipes cup may mean "coffee cup". Canada now usually employs the metric cup of 250mL but its conventional cup was somewhat smaller than both American and imperial units. 1 Canadian cup = 8 imperial fluid ounce = 1/20 imperial gallon = 227.3045 millilitres 1 tablespoon = 1/2 imperial fluid ounce 1 teaspoon = 1/6 imperial fluid ounce In the United Kingdom the standard cup was set at 10 imperial fluid ounces, or half an imperial pint. The cup was rarely used in practice, as historically most kitchens tended to be