Party-tray department (4)

I believe the answer is:

deli

(Other definitions for deli that I've seen before include "Specialist food shop" , "Seller of unusual foods" , "part of supermarket" , "Exotic food shop" , "Specialist foodshop(abbr.)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday and the Newsday.com.

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