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07-22-2007, 01:24 AM
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name of that one thingy
What so you call that wheeled cart with the shelves where you put those plastic trays from a restaurant in?
CF
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07-22-2007, 04:14 AM
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dunno about in a restaurant but at home we had a traymobile, and there's some who'd call it a tea-trolley
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07-22-2007, 04:29 AM
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Or why not just call it a restaurant cart and leave it to the readers’ intelligence to figure it out? Or Google 'restaurant cart'? There’s a brazillion hits and images.
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How Beautiful it is to Do Nothing, and then Rest Afterwards . . . . . Spanish proverb
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07-22-2007, 10:36 AM
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Like this?
Google Images for "food trolley" has some possibilities.
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07-22-2007, 06:36 PM
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probab-y a 'bus cart' since it's for bussing tab-es
[sorry for the confusion but that -etter and my period sudden-y stopped working!]
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07-23-2007, 10:17 PM
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It is known as a trolley bus, a bus trolley and also as a tray bus and under a brand name as a tray boss(keeping them all in line I guess).
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07-23-2007, 10:32 PM
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I could maybe go with tray bus, but I'm american - I'm not gonna use the word 'trolly'.
I think I'll just have to describe it a little or leave it out. Any of these words is going to pull the reader out of the story as the wonder what the hell a tray bus is.
'Oh, he means that one thingy!'
As she brought her tray over to the tall wheeled collection cart,...
It stinks. I think I'll leave it out.
CF
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07-23-2007, 11:25 PM
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"tray bus" seems intuitive enough to me.
"Food tray cart"? Is that better?
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07-23-2007, 11:31 PM
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Generally called a bus cart.
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