meal tray

Dining surface, portable

A meal tray is a flat, portable surface for serving or eating food, typically with raised edges to prevent items from sliding off.

Hospital patients receive meals on trays brought to their beds.

Airline passengers eat from meal trays that fold down from the seat ahead.

She carried the meal tray carefully up the stairs.

Related

food · TV dinner · room service · food service · plastic · compartments · silverware · napkin · serving · breakfast · lunch · dinner · bedside · patient · flight · stewardess · institutional · rectangular

Categories
Opposites
dining formality/setting

meal traydining table

Furniture for seated meals

banquet table · fine dining · sit-down dinner · table service

food service method

meal traybuffet

Self-service meal display

family-style dining · table service · tableside service · à la carte · communal table

dining formality

meal trayfine dining

Elegant restaurant experience

banquet service · silver service · chef's table · dinner party

Family

meal, tray, meals, trays, mealtime, piecemeal

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G