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PackagingBee offers food cardboard trays, best for displaying food stylishly. The food trays' packaging material is resistant to moisture, odor, & light. It is conveniently portable, lightweight, space-saving, and safe to handle fragile foods. 

We use top-grade printing techniques and ink with premium effect lamination. You can have the rigid, flexible, and portable food trays packaging for your foods, which attract potential customers with attractive colors and eye-catching prints. Plus, we have additional discounts on packaging bulk orders so that the bulk food packaging can fit in your budget. 

We work towards ensuring that each client gets satisfied, and it is our one way to offer you unlimited customization options that range from raw material to lamination to embellishments!

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  • Starting From 100 Boxes
  • High Quality Offset Printing
  • Custom Sizes & Style
  • 8-10 Business Day Turnaround
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  • Recyclable

What Are Food Cardboard Trays?

Food cardboard trays offer a clean and easy packaging option for carrying & presenting food. Restaurants or brands utilize them to present snacks, meals, & takeaway portions. Mainly manufactured from robust cardboard that primarily offers sturdy support to the food, our food trays will not leak. This ensures efficient handling during meal service and delivery. Many establishments opt for them to package snacks, fast food, street food, and baked items. Businesses can also have their logo or branding printed on our cardboard trays in bright, appealing colours and designs. It is a cost-effective and effective food packaging solution for daily business use, presentation, and an appealing look of the presented food.

How Do Cardboard Food Trays Work?

Cardboard food trays function as a support to serve and carry food efficiently. It's typically made of a firm cardboard material that maintains structural integrity to bear food. To use one, simply put your food in, and it supports the food during transportation or service. It holds the food securely, whether it's hot or cold, without deformation. In addition, the cardboard has folds or side walls, which add support and prevent food spills. Some have a special coating to prevent food from greasing through, hence to keep your food clean and the service area tidy. You can also opt for disposable cardboard food trays, as they are easy to carry and use. Food workers can prepare and use it very quickly during busy times, thereby speeding up service. In short, the food tray is a convenient way to carry your food.

High-End Benefits Of Using Cardboard Trays For Food

Food trays made from cardboard are a convenient and simple way of providing food service in a busy operation. Cardboard trays for food enhance the sort of handling, display, and customer experience you want in a busy food business. The advantages include;

Easy Food Handling

Trays made of cardboard are efficient and quick to handle, which means that staff can get meals out fast without causing any mess. Their open type of construction enables products to be displayed orderly. This also helps to cut down the serving time and can help if there's a rush of customers in busy hot food outlets and events.

Better Food Presentation

They create an attractive, very clean presentation of foods. The elegant presentation enhances the overall appearance of foods. The use of these trays with lids makes dining a more pleasant experience for consumers and safe for shipping purposes. The excellent presentation of a cardboard food tray with lid enhances customer satisfaction. It also results in customer loyalty, leading to several return visits to restaurants and cafes.

Light And Convenient

Cardboard trays are kept very light and convenient for transport. Staff and customers find lifting easy. This is ideal for takeaway service. It is also beneficial at big events requiring rapid serving and simple carrying.

Sustainable Packaging

If you're considering your brand budget, this is the option to look. Provides a cost-effective packaging option for any institutional food packaging. Provides a reliable quality product at a fraction of the cost. Fits well into a daily use environment, bulk purchasing, and a quick service environment without adding costs or cost-effectiveness to the packaging.

Eco-friendly Choice

Custom cardboard trays are considered a sustainable food packaging option. They are primarily created using recyclable materials plus reduce wastage. It also enables businesses to be socially more responsible. Increasing awareness makes consumers grateful for eco-friendly alternatives. This makes way for long-term branding!

Ideal Material Options For Food Trays

Different materials are used in food cardboard trays, depending on their strength, application, and type of food. These materials all help make packaging durable, attractive, and safe to serve food from, while catering to a variety of food service requirements:
  1. Kraft paperboard
  2. Corrugated board
  3. Duplex board
  4. Coated paperboard (PE coated)
  5. Recycled cardboard

Kraft Paperboard

Kraft paperboard is great for food trays as it feels very robust and green. It primarily serves light to moderate food items well & is common for snacks, as well as takeaway meals. Brands mostly utilize this for a professional appearance, & it can appeal to customers who care about sustainable packaging.

Corrugated Board

Corrugated board offers greater strength due to its structured design of layers and has a brown color.  These brown cardboard food trays are ideal for both heavier and hot food items as it does not easily buckle or bend. Restaurants and caterers use it for transporting food safely, maintaining the temperature of food products, as well as preventing spilling during service, and providing a stable surface during delivery.

Duplex Board

A duplex board is ideal if a cleaner look is desired and when light-weight food products are involved, such as bakery products or fast food. They have a more polished feel, which would be great to print labels or logos on. Look quite professional with the clean appearance it offers.

Coated Paperboard

This paperboard includes a film, which is great for keeping food from becoming grease-soaked. It's perfect for fried foods or those that contain many liquids, keeping the container strong throughout use. So, enhancing both product and service quality for the food it contains.

Recycled Cardboard

This type of material contributes to a greener option for business packaging. Recycled cardboard makes use of waste and reduces what's sent to landfills. A cardboard bakery tray offers strength and is ideal for everyday takeaway and food service use.

Size Options And Capacity

There are several different-sized options for various portion requirements. The small paper food trays are suitable for single portions, as larger sizes of trays are ideal for share platters, family dishes, and buffets. They have strengthened sides and are strong enough to take heavy food loads without the risk of them breaking or buckling.
  • Small (6 x 8) - small cardboard food trays for a single portion or a snack
  • Medium (8 x 10) - for a standard meal portion
  • Large (10 x 12) - for family dishes or share platters
  • Extra Large (12 x 16) - for catering presentation
  • Custom sizing is available upon request
Ensuring the best presentation for your dishes, custom-sized trays enable control over portion size. We are able to manufacture our trays to a size specific to your requirements, enabling standardization of dishes across a menu.

Design Options For Food Trays To Stand Out

We are printing food trays using custom technologies, and these are tailored for the appearance of a custom food tray. They would look excellent on the appearance of a modern tray. Our Custom tray food packaging solutions can address the valuable needs with high-quality materials, printing, color, and thickness. We deliver quality custom packaging at competitive prices. An inkjet printer perfectly prints the logo and brand impressions on these trays with a durable effect. Its waterproof, eco-friendly inks will provide biodegradable food trays with effective print. The following surface finishes:
  • Matte Lamination
  • Gloss Lamination
  • Aqueous Coating
  • Spot UV coating
  • Anti-grease coating

What Makes Us A Preferred Choice?

We at PackagingBee are an experienced packaging company with years of experience; we know what your business requires. Whether you want us to make packaging according to your own design or to provide a standard custom food box, we are always here to meet your requirements by bringing out efficient, innovative, modern, and cost-effective solutions for every food business sector. We are now providing a complete package for Wholesale Deal, plus a vast array of sizes, shapes, and styles, along with a free design service that helps to tailor your packaging. We Offer:
  • Free shipping on all orders
  • Free of cost design services for customized packaging
  • 3D Prototype to provide a clear vision of your final product
  • Environment-Friendly Packaging Solutions
  • Dedicated customer service
  • LMO (Lower Minimum Order) of just 100 pieces

Place Your Order Today

Order your food cardboard trays and tray packaging boxes now to take advantage of our dedicated customer care and outstanding support throughout the process.
Dimensions All Custom Sizes & Shapes
Printing CMYK, PMS, No Printing
Paper Stock 10pt to 28pt (60lb to 400lb) Eco-Friendly Kraft, E-flute Corrugated, Bux Board, Cardstock
Quantities 100 - 500,000
Coating Gloss, Matte, Spot UV
Default Process Die Cutting, Gluing, Scoring, Perforating
Options Custom window cut out, gold/silver foiling, embossed ink, raised ink, and PVC sheet.
Proof Flat View, 3D Mock-up, Physical Sampling (On request)
Turn Around Time 4-6 Business Days, Rush

  • Are Food Cardboard Trays Oil and Moisture-Proof?

    They can be. Most of the trays contain a PE coating and/or other food-safe layer to repel grease and liquid.

  • Can Custom Cardboard Trays Hold Heavy Meals?

    They can if you're using stronger versions, such as corrugated trays. These can hold the weight without buckling and becoming unable to be handled.

  • Are Brown Cardboard Food Trays A Good Choice For Takeaway Packaging?

    They are perfect for takeaway orders as they help to keep food organised for easy transportation.

  • Do These Cardboard Bakery Trays Offer Branding Opportunities?

    Printed trays provide a brilliant way for a company to put their logos and designs out there, raising their brand awareness.
Printing Options
Material
Special Finishes
Coating and Lamination
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Offset Print

High-quality and low-cost printing option that transfers the image to the box surface in a good resolution.


Digital Print

Digital printing techniques do not require any sort of printing plate as it transfers the image to the surface of the box easily without a plate.

UV Print

Safeguard the printed area from fading and make them more attractive.



Pantone

Utilization of a universally accepted color-matching system for printing the boxes.

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Corrugated

A fluted box material is created to enhance the strength of the boxes for shipment purposes.

Cardboard

Light in weight and easy to print cardstock material that would be molded into any shape and style.

Kraft

Slightly brown paper-like thin material for packaging created by wood pulp and heaving eco-friendly nature.

Rigid

A thick cardboard box that is high in strength but also luxurious in presentation.

Holographic

An impressive as well as laminated paperboard that emulates a 3d look to colors.

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Hot Foil Stamping

Print the foil detail by using the hot dies on the surface of the packaging boxes.

Cold Foil Stamping

It is a removable foil stamp that is applied without pressing any hot die or pressure on the boxes.

Blind Embossing

Create the raised area on the box surface by applying the pressure, not the inks.

Blind Debossing

Just like the craving on the box created by using letter plates or letter presses.


Registered Embossing

Create both the texture as well as the depth and endow a 3d effect to the area of the box.

Combination Embossing

Both the design as well as foiling is utilised at the same time to create a more appealing presentation.

Window Patching

Create a plain see-through cut in the box that is covered with a see-through plastic sheet.

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Aqueous Coating

Provide tear-free impact to the packaging with a clear and fast-drying water-based coating at the time of printing.

UV Coating

Add protection against the damaging impact of UV sun rays by applying the UV coating to the packaging.


Spot Gloss UV

Annex the glossy effect on the specific areas of the packaging through spot coating.


Soft Touch Coating

Use the soft touch coating to make the darker and dull areas of the packaging velvety and smooth.


Varnish

Provides protection as well as perfect presentation to the printing part of boxes.


Lamination

A very thin plastic film is pasted in the boxes to make them more durable and long-lasting.


Anti-Scratch Lamination

This thin film of plastic is used to endow the scuff as well as scratch resistance to the boxes.


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