White Paper Food Tray
The white paper food tray is the same shape as the kraft version with a different surface underneath.
View tray & get pricing →City · United States
Custom Food Trays in Nashville
Nashville has one dish that is genuinely harder on packaging than almost anything else: hot chicken. It is fried and then coated in an oil-based sauce, which means the tray is dealing with fat that carries pigment — so the stain on untreated board is coloured as well as translucent.
The city also has a dense live music and venue sector, which generates concession-style packaging requirements in venues that were never designed for food service.
- 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 Nashville
Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Oil-based sauce is a different problem from grease
Ordinary frying puts clear oil into board, which shows as a translucent darkening. A cayenne-and-oil sauce puts pigmented oil into board, which shows as a coloured stain that spreads visibly and does not look like an accident — it looks like poor packaging.
A grease-resistant food-contact face prevents it, and on this menu it is not an upgrade to consider. It is the baseline. Bread served under hot chicken has the same issue in reverse: it absorbs the sauce and goes soft, which is why a separate section or a liner is worth the small cost.
Venue and event service
One-handed formats
Venue customers are standing, in a crowd, often holding a drink. Compact formats with a defined grip point work; large flat trays do not.
Moisture-tolerant board
Drinks get spilled on everything in a music venue. Untreated fluted board loses strength quickly when wet.
Bold printing
Read across a room in low light. Large, high-contrast marks rather than fine detail.
Flat-packed stock
Venue storage is almost always tight, and often shared with everything else the venue needs.
Other Nashville requirements
- Barbecue trays in fluted board with treated faces and depth for sides.
- Tourism and takeaway formats for a high-footfall visitor market.
- Event and festival packaging ordered for a season rather than an event.
- Corporate and hotel catering formats for a growing business travel market.
Trays we supply to Nashville
Chosen against the requirements described above, not as a general catalogue listing.
Corrugated Deli Tray
A deli tray takes more punishment than most food packaging.
View tray & get pricing →
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.
View tray & get pricing →
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…
View tray & get pricing →
Kraft Paper Food Tray
The kraft paper food tray is the one shape that every counter ends up buying.
View tray & get pricing →
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.
View tray & get pricing →Supplying Nashville: common questions
Why does hot chicken stain packaging so badly?
Because the sauce is oil-based and carries pigment, so the mark on untreated board is coloured as well as translucent. It spreads visibly and reads as poor packaging rather than as an accident.
How do I stop the bread going soft?
A separate section or a liner between the bread and the sauced chicken. It costs very little and it removes a complaint that is otherwise unavoidable.
Do I need venting on takeaway containers?
For anything fried, yes. A sealed container traps the steam the food produces and a carefully developed crisp coating will be soft within about ten minutes.
What packaging suits a music venue?
Compact one-handed formats with a defined grip point, a moisture-tolerant board because drinks get spilled, bold print that reads in low light, and flat-packed stock because venue storage is tight.
Can you supply festival and event traders?
Yes. Order for a season rather than an event, specify a moisture-tolerant board, and pre-assemble during quiet spells rather than at the window during a rush.
How deep should a hot chicken tray be?
Deeper than it looks — bone-in pieces and bread together take more room than expected. Load a sample with your actual portion and tilt it before committing to a die.
Other countries we supply
Get a quote delivered to Nashville
Send the specification, the quantity and the delivery address. We come back with unit price, tooling if any, freight and a real production date.