What a boat tray is for
The open fast-food tray: long walls straight up, short walls leaning out and scalloped so a hand gets under the food, with the corner pleats folded flat against the ends. The scallop is the detail that matters — it is what lets someone lift a hot dog or a taco out cleanly instead of digging at it.
At 150 by 100 by 40 mm it holds one substantial item or a generous side. Because the long walls are square rather than flared, the tray does not nest as tightly as a flared one, but the food sits flatter and photographs better, which is why it is the shape used for anything served open.
The long walls are the faces seen across a counter and in a photograph, and they are full-height rectangles, so this is one of the few trays where a proper wrap-around design works. Street food, hot dogs, loaded fries, tacos and bakery service all use it.
Size it to the item rather than the portion. At 150 mm long it takes a standard hot dog or a taco and will not take a footlong, and there is no give in a tray with straight long walls — food that overhangs falls out. Measure the longest thing it has to hold before choosing the size, because this is the one tray where a few millimetres decide whether it works.
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Boat trays with scalloped ends so a hand gets under them. Print the inside and the outside, then fold the tray on screen.
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