Corrugated Deli Tray
A deli tray takes more punishment than most food packaging.
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Custom Food Trays in Tennessee
Tennessee has two food traditions that are hard on packaging — hot chicken and barbecue — and a live music and events sector that generates a steady demand for concession formats.
Both food traditions produce the same specification conclusion: treated board, real depth, and enough structural strength that a loaded tray can be carried one-handed without folding.
- 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 Tennessee
Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Hot chicken and heavily sauced food
Hot chicken is fried and then coated in an oil-based sauce, which means the tray is dealing with a double dose of exactly what board copes with least well. Untreated board darkens almost immediately and the oil carries pigment, so the mark is coloured as well as translucent.
A grease-resistant food-contact face is not optional here. Nor, for anything that leaves the premises closed, is venting — a coating that has been carefully developed for crispness will be soft within ten minutes in a sealed container.
Venue and event concessions
- Carrier trays that hold drinks and food together — the item that sets transaction value at a busy bar or venue.
- Compact formats that a customer can hold standing, in a crowd, in low light.
- Bold printing that reads across a room rather than in the hand.
- Flat-packed stock, because venue storage is almost always tight.
- Moisture-tolerant board, because drinks get spilled on everything at a music venue.
Barbecue specifics
Weight
A full barbecue plate with sides is heavy. Fluted board rather than folding, specified against the loaded weight.
Sides in the same tray
A divided tray is faster and cheaper than three containers, but it needs full-height dividers and a treated face.
Bread
Bread in contact with sauce goes soft. A separate section or a paper liner solves it for very little cost.
One-handed carrying
If customers carry loaded trays to a table, reinforced hand holes are worth the print space they take.
Trays we supply to Tennessee
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
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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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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French Fry Scoop
The fry scoop exists because of a specific piece of ergonomics: a member of staff should be able to fill it from a fryer basket with one hand, in one mo…
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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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Kraft Paper Food Tray
The kraft paper food tray is the one shape that every counter ends up buying.
View tray & get pricing →Supplying Tennessee: common questions
Why does hot chicken mark packaging so badly?
Because it is fried and then coated in an oil-based sauce, so the oil carries pigment as well as fat. The mark is coloured as well as translucent, which makes it more visible than ordinary grease staining.
Do I need venting on a takeaway container?
For anything fried, yes. A sealed container traps the steam the food produces, and a carefully developed crisp coating will be soft within ten minutes. Vents cost almost nothing in the die.
Should barbecue sides share a tray with the meat?
Usually yes — one divided tray is faster at the counter and cheaper than three containers. It needs full-height dividers and a grease-resistant face, and bread benefits from its own section.
What packaging suits a music venue?
Compact formats a customer can hold standing in a crowd, a carrier tray for drinks plus food, bold print that reads across a room, and a moisture-tolerant board because drinks get spilled on everything.
How much weight will a barbecue tray take?
That is a specification. Tell us the heaviest loaded plate and whether customers carry it one-handed, and we grade the board and the hand holes for that rather than an average.
Can you supply festival and event traders?
Yes. Flat-packed formats, as few lines as the menu allows, and a moisture-tolerant board are the three things that matter most for outdoor event trading.
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Send the specification, the quantity and the delivery address. We come back with unit price, tooling if any, freight and a real production date.