Custom Food Tray Packaging for Food Businesses

A Custom Food Tray Packaging approach distinguishes the professional foodservice programs from commodity food tray distribution as it is flexible to serve food in convenient ways and present them in a way that is branded. Whether the food is local or from far away, generic trays miss the mark on the brand recognition as well as the customer experience opportunity that foodservice moments offer. In every foodservice segment year-round, from fast food to food truck, cafe to catering, we create each tray around your food format, restaurant identity and your market of fast food, food truck, cafe, or catering.

Custom Sizes and Tray Styles

Compact burger, sandwich and fast food combo meal service trays in fast food distribution. Snack trays designed to serve snack portions in food truck, cafe and casual dining snack programs. French fry trays for fast food and food truck fries distribution. Multi-compartment food trays for combo meal service used with multiple food items that need organized presentation on the tray with quick-service and food truck combo programs.

Branding and Personalization Options

Logos printed on the exterior of food trays for complete restaurant brand presentation at each food tray point of customer contact. Printed media such as promotional offers, loyalty program details and social media details for customer engagement. Product and restaurant branding across the tray panels such as restaurant identity, menu positioning and foodservice specialty messaging throughout the food tray program range.

Food Tray Packaging with Logo

A Food Tray Packaging with Logo treatment allows for every food tray sold to be branded with the logo during dine-in restaurant moments, food truck service and takeaway food handling. The branded food tray packaging provides the restaurant brand presence that is not possible with non-branded trays throughout the foodservice customer relationship lifecycle.

Increase Brand Visibility

The food tray customer engages with the restaurant brand at each step of the foodservice moment from food tray receipt to meal consumption. Each customer interaction with your brand creates recognition, whether they’re enjoying dine-in food on a tray, dining out at a food truck, or ordering take-out food on a tray. It’s a form of recognition that resonates with foodservice customers in every segment and acts as a catalyst to drive brand loyalty and repeat foodservice visits over weeks and months.

Enhance Customer Dining Experience

The food tray is the first impression of restaurant quality and foodservice investment before people have eaten. Food tray packaging with the restaurant brand communicates “foodservice treatment” and enhances the restaurant’s positioning to “restaurant care” for every eating occasion, beyond switching off the commodity food serving treatment. Branded trays offer a professional dining experience for food tray customers, both in dine-in and quick service settings.

Premium Materials for Food Tray Boxes

Food tray packaging should offer an easy-to-serv, grease resistant and restaurant ready brand positioning solution. Our Food Tray Boxes are engineered from stock to deliver a consistent foodservice performance and restaurant brand expression year-round across the global foodservice market.

Food-Grade Cardboard Trays

Food-grade cardboard is a smooth printing surface that restaurant brand designs require, and a food-safe construction needed for food tray programs. They are sufficiently sturdy for distributing and handling food trays for service to customers while maintaining the practicality of distribution economics across the life of a high-volume food tray program during the daily foodservice cycle.

Kraft Food Trays

Kraft’s artisan foodservice positioning, natural food tray aesthetics and sustainable restaurant programs span the entire food tray packaging spectrum. The natural look will be a key authenticity marker to the foodservice consumer who cares about craft restaurant placement in today’s foodservice spectrum.

Grease-Resistant Packaging Materials

Through the global foodservice cycle, food tray performance is ensured via grease resistant construction with appropriate food tray coatings, that perform on food service items such as greasy fast food, fried food service and oil cooked menu items.

Features of Our Food Tray Packaging

Food-Safe Construction

Food trays are made with materials, coatings and inks that are safe to contact food and meet and support all regulatory standards for direct food contact packaging in all foodservice applications globally.

Grease and Leak Resistance

Grease resistant coatings and leak resistant construction help prevent oil, grease and moisture leakage in food trays for fried food, saucy foods and greasy foodservice items throughout the foodservice lifecycle.

Convenient Serving Solution

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and food trucks require a convenient food-serving format to serve their food efficiently during a busy foodservice cycle, which food tray construction provides.

Durable and Lightweight

Food trays manufactured take into account the strength and durability needed to hold food as well as the ease of transport for the customer. All trays can be used for dine-in restaurant operations and for take-out foodservice operations.

Custom Printing and Finishing Options

Printing elevates a food tray design to a restaurant asset. With Custom Printed Food Tray Packaging, our inks are created with the intention of using them on every visible surface, and are not mass produced in a template.

High-Quality Food-Safe Printing

Printing on all food tray surfaces in full color is available with food-safe ink systems from CMYK Printing. When restaurant identity is at stake, PMS Printing ensures that the same exact colors from one print run to the next. Digital Printing is ideal for short-run food tray releases and tailored restaurant program campaigns, all in full-color.

Packaging Enhancement Options

Matte Finish offers elegant restaurant surface finish in top quality food tray positioning. Gloss Finish brings color to fast-food tray displays. Food-Safe Coatings provide grease resistance and moisture barrier protection in all food tray applications. Specialty food tray formats with unique restaurant presentation using Custom Die-Cut Designs.

Food Tray Packaging for Different Foods

Food tray packaging is used for a variety of food categories in the foodservice arena.

Burgers and Sandwiches

Burger and sandwich programs utilize the food tray packaging that the speedy service restaurant system of distribution requires for burger packaging and sandwich packaging.

French Fries and Snacks

Across fast food and food truck fries distribution, the food tray packaging service provided by the food tray packaging machine has a depth and grease resistance as required by fries in the frying service.

Fried Chicken and Fast Food

For fried chicken and fast food programs, food tray packaging is used that is grease resistant and has sufficient tray capacity for food items such as fried chicken pieces, wings, and combo fast food service foods.

Desserts and Bakery Items

Food trays are used in foodservice segments for tray packaging of dessert and bakery items, serving dessert in cafes, and quick-service bakery item presentation. Food tray packaging can fit any kind of food items in all food service formats.

Benefits of Food Tray Packaging

Easy Food Handling

Food tray packaging offers the hassle free format that food trucks and quick-service restaurants require for easy food handling during high-traffic food service processes.

Better Food Presentation

Custom food tray packaging takes the concept of foodservice presentation beyond the treatment of commodities, to the level that customers expect at all foodservice moments.

Improved Customer Convenience

Food tray packaging provides the swift service and convenience demanded in the consumer by quick-service restaurants and food trucks for the three food handling cycles: dine-in food carry, food truck service and takeaway food handling.

Enhanced Brand Recognition

Branded food tray packaging increases restaurant brand awareness from the restaurant to the customer’s dining occasion, creating new customer awareness in the foodservice market.

Eco-Friendly Food Tray Packaging

Conscious consumers are critical to the foodservice purchase process, and restaurant environmental positioning is a key consideration in sustainability, regardless of the type of foodservice.

Recyclable Packaging Materials

Food-grade cardboard and kraft cores are recycled in paper streams, which are clean of food residue. Wherever possible, food-safe coatings (that can be recycled for reuse) allow for easy disposal, appealing to foodservice customers wanting to be sustainable.

Sustainable Foodservice Solutions

Paperboard for FSC from responsibly managed forests. Paper that can be used for indirect food contact applications and is made from post-consumer recycled material. Food-safe water-based inks for all printing methods. From materials (sourcing) through the foodservice product line, sustainability was woven into the food tray packaging program throughout.

Industries That Use Food Tray Packaging

Restaurants

In competitive restaurant markets around the globe, quick-service, casual dining and specialty restaurants utilize food tray packaging for dine-in food service.

Food Trucks

Food tray packaging is used for the street level food service, which is characterized by mobile, convenient food serving by food trucks and mobile foodservice programs.

Cafes

Food tray packaging is used for the cafe dine-in service, takeaway food distribution and grab-and-go cafe food positioning in competitive food markets in cafes with food programs.

Catering Businesses

Food tray packaging is employed by the catering business in the professional catering field, such as event catering, corporate catering, and celebration catering, etc., in which the food tray is used for service.

Food Tray Packaging Wholesale

The Food Tray Packaging Wholesale solution reduces the per-unit cost in packaging while ensuring food is available for many daily foodservice cycles and unexpected peaks in demand resulting from successful launches of foodservice programs.

Benefits of Bulk Orders

With the bulk orders, per-tray foodservice production costs are significantly reduced for larger production volumes that serve the daily demand in a restaurant. Scheduling is predictable throughout the entire week and for the year of foodservice. The key to consistency is that all the files are approved and will be used in coordinated production runs for your entire annual foodservice calendar.

Cost-Effective Packaging Solutions

There are different margins for food trays for quick-service positioning, mid-tier restaurant, and premium foodservice positioning. Cost control and packaging are an issue for all foodservice businesses. Wholesale pricing helps to maintain unit economics and helps to sustain food-safe construction food tray programs throughout each service cycle.

Why Choose Prime Custom Boxes Pk?

Your packaging partner influences your foodservice business, your brand consistency and your bottom line every day. From the USA, UK, UAE, to Pakistan, Prime Custom Boxes Pk addresses all the critical aspects of food tray programs expanding throughout the United States of America.

Food-Grade Packaging Materials

Food tray applications use all the stocks, coatings, liners and inks that comply with food contact requirements. From sourcing to the final food tray, food safety is embedded in all regulatory markets we serve, worldwide.

Free Design Support

Design support is included with each project, each order quantity. We are in-house designers that create print ready food tray packaging artwork for your restaurant brand. Rough concepts will become production ready files, no extra cost, from concept to finished foodservice production runs.

Fast Turnaround Time

Standard production is 4-8 business days from approved artwork to finished trays. Rush production can provide daily foodservice inventory requirements and restaurant launch timing with regularly updated production builds all the way through the process.

Competitive Wholesale Pricing

The pricing scales automatically adjust to the order size, in wholesale mode. No hidden set up fees. No plate charges. No minimums or penalties. All orders of food trays are shipped free of charge and all year round to all markets we visit.

Order Custom Food Tray Packaging Today

Looking for a way to take your foodservice program to the next level, providing easy to serve packaging, while simultaneously adding restaurant branding? It is convenient, quick and customizable to order with Prime Custom Boxes Pk. Design support second, free quote first, and finally the finished food tray packaging shipped directly to your restaurant or fulfillment center.

Request a Free Quote

It only takes minutes to get started. Please give us your dimensions, quantities, preference of materials, food-safety requirements, print requirements, and any finishing options in our quote form. We’re able to provide a detailed response to your specific food tray packaging project needs with rapid turnaround in the foodservice product range with food service pricing that’s matched to your exact needs.

USA, UK, UAE & Pakistan Delivery Available

Foodservice brands battle for consumer loyalty and quick-service positioning in the USA, UK, UAE and many other markets; and we deliver in all of those. Year-round production-to-delivery monitoring of runs worldwide to your restaurant or fulfillment center.