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Custom Food Trays in San Diego
San Diego packaging enquiries sit at the intersection of three things: a coastal seafood trade, one of the country’s densest concentrations of craft breweries and taprooms, and a year-round outdoor eating culture.
All three point towards the same kind of packaging — shallow sharing formats, drink carriers, and board specified to cope with being used outside.
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- trays shortlisted for this market
- 1 day
- typical quote turnaround
- Freight
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- Made to order
- no stock sizes to work around
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Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Taproom and brewery food service
Sharing formats over individual ones
Taproom food is eaten communally at a table over a long period. Shallow open trays keep the food visible and are the right shape for picking at.
Flat, rigid bases
A loaded sharing tray on a communal table cannot bow. Specify caliper against the loaded weight and the span rather than choosing a nominal thickness.
Drink carriers
A carrier for cans, bottles or cups directly raises what one person brings back to a table. Cut to your actual containers, not a generic size.
Grease-resistant faces
Taproom menus skew fried. It is inexpensive and it eliminates the most visible packaging failure.
Coastal and outdoor service
Food eaten outdoors deals with wind, ambient moisture and, on the coast, salt air. A tray that is entirely adequate indoors can be too light for a breezy patio, and stock stored in an unconditioned space near the coast takes on moisture faster than it would inland.
The adjustments are small: a slightly heavier board for outdoor service, a treated food-contact face, and storage in the driest conditioned space available rather than a garage or an outbuilding.
Seafood and Baja-style formats
- Fried seafood formats with a grease-resistant face and venting for takeaway.
- Taco holders sized to your shell, which for fish tacos usually means a soft-shell slot.
- Absorbent fibre trays for retail and counter seafood display.
- Shallow platters for cold seafood service, sized from the arrangement rather than a nominal figure.
Trays we supply to San Diego
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
Corrugated Drink Carrier
A drink carrier is a mechanical problem before it is a packaging one.
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Kraft Taco Holder
A taco holder does one thing: it stops tacos falling over.
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Moulded Pulp Meat Tray
The whole argument for a fibre meat tray is what happens to the liquid.
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White Paper Food Tray
The white paper food tray is the same shape as the kraft version with a different surface underneath.
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Chip and Dip Tray
The chip and dip tray is the simplest divided format there is: a main bay and one or two smaller wells.
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What packaging suits a taproom?
Shallow open sharing formats with a flat, rigid base and a grease-resistant face, plus a drink carrier. The food is eaten communally over a long period, so visibility matters more than containment.
Will a carrier fit our cans or bottles?
If we cut it to them. Send one of each container you serve — cans, bottles and cups all have different profiles and weights, and the board grade changes with them.
Does outdoor service need a heavier board?
Usually. Wind lifts light trays off patio tables and ambient moisture softens untreated board. It is a small cost difference and it is worth specifying.
What tray suits fish tacos?
A holder with a soft-shell slot width, deep enough to support the shell below the filling line, and a grease-resistant face because fish taco fillings are wet.
Does coastal air affect stored stock?
Ambient moisture does. Keep packaging in its shipping cartons in the driest conditioned space you have, and rotate it rather than letting cartons sit for a year.
Can you supply both restaurant and retail seafood packaging?
Yes. Retail needs absorbent fibre trays with a flat panel for the barcode and legal information; restaurant service needs grease resistance and venting. Different specifications, same order.
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