Corrugated Deli Tray
A deli tray takes more punishment than most food packaging.
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Custom Food Trays in Missouri
Missouri has two major metropolitan food markets with strong barbecue traditions and significant professional sports concessions, and those two things account for most of what we quote for the state.
Barbecue and stadium concessions are unrelated as businesses but they share a packaging characteristic: both involve heavy, greasy portions handled at speed by customers who are usually standing.
- 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
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Barbecue trays carry more than people expect
A full barbecue plate — burnt ends, ribs, sausage, two sides and bread — is a genuinely heavy object, and it is wet with rendered fat and sauce. Folding board of any caliper will flex under it when lifted from the middle, which is why barbecue trays are fluted.
The other decision worth making deliberately is whether the sides share the tray. One divided tray with full-height dividers is faster at the counter and cheaper than three containers, and it looks more composed. Bread benefits from its own section, because bread against sauce goes soft quickly.
Game-day concession requirements
The carrier sets transaction value
A customer who can carry four drinks and food buys four drinks and food. It is the highest-leverage item in a concession range.
Assembly before the rush
Flat-packed trays folded during the quiet period and stacked ready to fill. Folding at the till during a peak costs real money.
Cup holes cut to your cups
Hot and cold cups taper differently. Send one of each size rather than a measurement.
Moisture tolerance
Spilled drinks and, at outdoor venues, rain. Untreated fluted board loses strength quickly when wet.
What else we quote in Missouri
- Deli and hot counter trays for a substantial independent restaurant sector.
- Corporate and event catering platters in both metropolitan markets.
- Bakery display and boxing formats.
- Institutional and school catering trays sized to existing servery fixtures.
Trays we supply to Missouri
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
Stadium Carrier Tray
A stadium carrier has to be usable by somebody walking up concrete steps in a crowd, holding a phone, wearing a coat, in the dark.
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Corrugated Food Tray
Corrugated trays exist for one reason: a loaded tray that has to be picked up from the middle without folding in half.
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Popcorn Scoop Tray
Popcorn is sold by volume and eaten by the handful, which makes the pack unusually important: the customer’s sense of value comes almost entirely…
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Corrugated Catering Tray
This is the working catering tray: fluted, deep, strong enough to hold several full foil pans, and usually built with a raised header board that turns t…
View tray & get pricing →Supplying Missouri: common questions
What board does a barbecue tray need?
Fluted rather than folding, graded against the loaded weight, with a grease-resistant food-contact face. A full plate with sides is heavy and wet, which is the combination folding board handles least well.
Should sides share the barbecue tray?
Usually yes — one divided tray is faster and cheaper than three containers. It needs full-height dividers, a treated face, and ideally a separate section for bread, which goes soft quickly against sauce.
Why does the carrier tray matter so much at a stadium?
Because it sets the ceiling on how much one customer can carry, and therefore buy, at the busiest moment of the event. It is the highest-leverage item in a concession packaging range.
Will the carrier fit our cups?
Only if we cut it to them. Send one of each size — hot and cold cups taper differently and a hole cut for one will not hold the other securely.
How do we handle assembly during a peak?
Do not assemble during the peak. Fold flat-packed trays during the quiet period before the rush and stack the formed units ready to fill.
Does rain affect concession packaging at outdoor venues?
Considerably. Untreated fluted board loses strength quickly when wet, and that failure happens with a full load in a customer’s hand. Ask for a moisture-tolerant board.
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