There is so many definitions of a butler's pantry..
I think you might mean a ., butlers kitchen, something different again.
it's a bit bigger than the servery, but there is no cookery involved.. It might however deal with the hot and cold drinks also.
I am familiar with as the servery .. Often a galley shaped separate room that the food came into to 1 long bench from the cooks kitchen and out of, to a different long bench on the opposite wall, heading to the scullery. For scraping for the Piggery or somewhere else, and for washing
I think this is a great idea in homes that can afford this space even though this face was normally only about 2 metres wide and as necessarily long, sometimes the length of the wall of the dining room on the other side. this is unless the servery had a separate section which may have led to any of the other domestic offices of a grandhome. Such as a pantry, larder, dairy room ( pre refrigeration milk cheese butter storage away from wet areas, working areas.. Etc.
The modern day kitchen of a servery though could include a small dishwasher for immediate use such as catering staff may need to wash glasses to re serve the table, and might have a small refrigerator to replace a whole room dedicated for immediate dairy supplies for the table and the chilled drinks for the table.
I think these days anything-goes. In days of old a century or more than even memes became confused and sometimes rooms blended either for economy or whether it was a rural property or a town property and the amount of staff you engaged and the size of household.
These days it's more to do with economy whether you can afford that build it for the staff have to do it yourself.. Etc
still in a modern day home I see it very practical even if the parent is the cooked in another room and the kids are doing the dishes in the servery.
I do think that the cooking area of a chosen range of '' domestic offices' needs a window which we now use the word servery to pass the food through. In modern times people think of the servery window as the people from the table going to get the food, rather than that middle section for the mess in between.
Maybe in the modern home this room it could be even larger to cater for all of the dishwashing and food service but none of the genuine cookery.... Which can be done in a completely separate room with that servery window connecting it, now that most homes would not consider a scullery as well unless of course they are the grandest largest homes
The term butler's pantry to me was always nearly a small suite, not far from the domestic range of officers but it was an area where the silver and lead crystal, and valuable goods once regarded like tea, were kept. He had his own quartersi in this small area and, lock and key for the valuables sleeping in a separate corner and an office table for the staff planning diary and household operation costs and staff financing duties. I feel those days are gone In most places.
But generally speaking depends on the character of the house and the entertaining or the size of the population or the budget I do believe that a separate, area even hidden behind a partition at least can separate the dining facilities from the cooking facilities and serve as the invisible Messy area for food in and out ......
Sorry if that jumped about, but my screen disappears every couple of lines
