Bagasse School Meal Tray
School meal trays have a specification nobody else has to meet.
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Custom Food Trays in Ottawa
Ottawa has a high proportion of institutional and corporate catering relative to its size, and that sector buys packaging differently from restaurants: specifications are documented, consistency matters across sites, and bilingual labelling is frequently a requirement rather than an option.
The practical result is that Ottawa enquiries tend to arrive with more detail than most — which is genuinely helpful, because it means the first quote can be accurate.
- 6
- trays shortlisted for this market
- 1 day
- typical quote turnaround
- Freight
- quoted to your address, not ex-works
- Made to order
- no stock sizes to work around
Quotes delivered to Ottawa
Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Institutional catering starts from the fixtures
Where a restaurant designs packaging around the food, an institutional caterer has to design it around the servery. Rail spacing, trolley shelf dimensions and tray return apertures are fixed, expensive to change, and usually older than the current contract.
Measure those three first and work inward to the compartments. Then design the compartment layout for the most demanding service in your menu cycle rather than an average day, because a layout that fails once a fortnight fails in front of a queue.
Requirements that come up here
Bilingual panels
Plan for roughly twice the area of a single-language panel, designed first rather than fitted in afterwards.
Documented specifications
We supply the material, treatment and any certification in writing, which is what tender and contract documentation usually needs.
Multi-site consistency
One footprint across an estate simplifies procurement, storage and staff training simultaneously.
Winter handling
Condensation on temperature change, and stock softening in unheated storage. Both are worth specifying around.
Trays we supply to Ottawa
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
Rigid Cafeteria Tray
A cafeteria tray carries an entire meal — main, sides, dessert, cutlery, sometimes a drink — from a servery to a table, held by one person who is also c…
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Compartment Tray with Lid
The lidded compartment tray is the format that meal-prep businesses, bento services and premium takeaway have converged on.
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Corrugated Lunch Tray
The lunch tray sits between a takeaway container and a proper meal tray.
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Catering Tray with Lid
The lidded catering tray is the format that most drop-off caterers standardise on, because it is the only one that solves the whole journey.
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Compostable Food Tray
Moulded fibre trays are formed by pressing wet pulp against a heated tool.
View tray & get pricing →Supplying Ottawa: common questions
How should an institutional meal tray be sized?
From the servery fixtures inward — rail spacing, trolley shelf and tray return — then the compartments within that footprint. The fixtures are expensive to change and the tray is not.
Can you supply written material specifications for a tender?
Yes. We state the material, any treatment applied and any certification the grade holds, and in which market it applies. Send us the exact wording of a requirement and we will tell you plainly whether it is met.
How much room does bilingual labelling need?
Roughly twice a single-language panel at legible sizes. Design the panel first and lay the pack out around it rather than trying to fit French copy in later.
How many compartments should the tray have?
Enough for the most demanding service in your menu cycle rather than an average day. Four is common — a main, two sides and a dessert — but check the whole cycle.
Do you supply single-use and returnable trays?
Both, but they are genuinely different products with different materials and economics. Decide which the site’s washing infrastructure supports before seeking pricing.
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Get a quote delivered to Ottawa
Send the specification, the quantity and the delivery address. We come back with unit price, tooling if any, freight and a real production date.