meal trays
Food service platforms
Meal trays are flat, portable surfaces used to carry or serve food.
In hospitals and airlines, meals arrive on individual trays with compartmentalized dishes.
At home, a meal tray lets someone eat in bed or in front of the television: She brought him soup on a meal tray while he recovered.
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- school lunchMidday institutional meal
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- airlineAir transport company
economy class · food · food service · serving · plastic · compartments · silverware · napkin · lunch · dinner · room service · portioned · portion control · TV dinner · institutional · rolling · cart · bedside
- frozen mealsfrozen dinners, frozen dinner, frozen entrees, TV dinners, Lean Cuisine
- school cafeteriaschool cafeteria, cafeteria, lunch line, lunch ladies, lunch lady
- travel diningin-flight dining, airline food, dining cars, food carts, galley
- prison foodcommissary, mess hall, chow hall, spreads, spread
serving format
meal traystableside service
dining table · à la carte · banquet table · buffet station · communal table
dining formality
meal traysfine dining
Elegant restaurant experience
sit-down dinner · chef's table · dinner party · banquet service · tasting menu