Corrugated Crawfish Tray
A crawfish tray carries several pounds of hot, wet, seasoned shellfish, often with corn and potatoes, straight out of a boil.
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Custom Food Trays in Houston
Houston has an unusually broad food-service market, but the packaging enquiries cluster around one specification more than any other: wet, heavy service. Seafood boils, crawfish, Viet-Cajun cooking and barbecue all put hot liquid and real weight into a board tray at the same time.
That is the hardest combination there is for fluted board, and it is worth being explicit about what it requires.
- 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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Tell us the tray, the quantity and where it is going. Freight is quoted to your address rather than added later.
Wet and heavy at once
Fluted board wicks liquid along its flutes faster than it soaks through the liner, and heat accelerates it sharply. A boil tray is dealing with hot water, oil, seasoning and several pounds of shellfish simultaneously — and it is often carried to a communal table by one person.
A tray specified for that needs a genuine moisture barrier on the food-contact face, not a grease-resistant treatment, and a board grade with real margin. If you have had trays soften during a service, the barrier is almost certainly what was missing.
What to tell us for a boil tray quote
- The weight of a typical loaded tray and the heaviest you serve.
- Whether the boil goes in drained or straight from the pot with liquid.
- How long the tray sits on the table before it is finished — boil service runs long.
- Whether trays are carried by hand, set down on a communal table, or both.
- Whether ice is involved, and for how long.
The rest of the Houston market
Barbecue
Fluted board with a grease-resistant face, sized for a plate with sides, with reinforced hand holes if customers carry loaded trays.
Corporate catering
A substantial market. Lidded trays sized to covers, with enough lid overlap that nothing lifts in a van.
International and fusion menus
Compartment formats that keep several distinct elements separate in one container.
Heat in storage
Gulf humidity and heat both work stored board. Keep it in cartons in the coolest dry space available.
Trays we supply to Houston
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.
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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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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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Shrimp Cocktail Tray
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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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What does a crawfish or seafood boil tray need?
A genuine moisture barrier on the food-contact face and a board grade with margin. Grease resistance alone addresses a different problem and will not stop hot liquid wicking along the flutes.
How long can a boil tray hold up?
A properly specified one handles a normal service period. Tell us how long a table typically takes over a boil — that duration is a specification input, and boil service runs longer than most food service.
Can the tray hold ice?
For a short display with a barrier, yes. For hours, melting ice becomes standing water, which is the hardest condition for board. Tell us the duration and we will specify honestly.
How do I size a communal boil tray?
For the table rather than the person. Serve a typical shared portion spread rather than piled, and measure the area it covers. That is your internal footprint.
Does Gulf humidity affect stored packaging?
Yes. Heat and humidity together take stiffness out of board that has never been near food. Keep stock in its cartons in the coolest, driest space available and rotate it.
Do you supply Houston corporate caterers?
Yes. The specification points are the same everywhere — lid overlap, base rigidity and depth from the tallest garnish — but the market here is large enough that branded packaging pays back quickly.
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