Custom Cardboard Food Trays
General-purpose printed trays for markets, events and canteens.
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Sheffield supports two large universities and a food scene that has grown around the regenerated industrial quarters — Kelham Island and Neepsend in particular, where former workshops have become kitchens and taprooms.
Taproom food trading is its own packaging problem, because the venue serves the drink and the trader serves the food.
Trading Inside Someone Else's Venue
A food trader operating from a taproom kitchen is serving customers who are seated at the venue's tables with the venue's glasses. The packaging is the trader's only branded surface.
It also has to work on a table rather than in a hand, which points towards trays and boards rather than wraps.
Traders whose menu changes weekly usually do better with general-purpose trays for a changing menu than with dish-specific containers.
Sheffield Trades We Quote For
- Kitchen residencies inside taprooms and bars, often with a menu that changes monthly.
- Cafés serving the student areas around Broomhill and Ecclesall Road.
- Independent dessert and bubble tea shops in the city centre.
- Market traders at Moor Market and seasonal events.
A residency that changes its menu regularly is better served by two general sizes than by five specific ones.
Ordering When the Menu Is Not Fixed
Specifying packaging around a dish that will be replaced in six weeks leaves you with stock you cannot use.
The practical answer is to specify for the wettest and heaviest thing you are likely to serve, in two sizes, and accept that it is not ideal for any single dish.
Packaging in Sheffield: Common Questions
Our menu changes every month. What should we order?
Two general sizes in a grease-resistant board, specified for the heaviest and wettest thing you might serve. It will not be ideal for any one dish and it will not become dead stock when the menu moves on.
Can packaging be branded to us rather than the venue?
That is usually the point of ordering it. For a kitchen residency, the packaging is often the only thing carrying your name in someone else's room.
What should a taproom residency order?
Two general tray sizes in a grease-resistant board rather than dish-specific containers that become dead stock when the menu changes.
Do you deliver to a venue address?
On national carriers, though a venue may not accept deliveries for a trader. Confirm with them before giving us the address.
How do we handle a monthly menu change?
Specify for the wettest and heaviest thing you might serve, in two sizes, and accept it is not ideal for any single dish.
What suits the student areas?
Formats that fill quickly and cope with a term-time demand pattern. Ordering twice a year usually beats once.
Is delivery to Sheffield slower?
No, it is standard mainland transit. Production time dominates and is confirmed on your quote.
Can we order short runs for a residency?
Yes, and digital printing suits a residency that may last a season. Send the quantity and the run dates.
Do you supply Kelham Island traders?
Yes, and residency kitchens there are the main case for general-purpose trays over dish-specific containers.
Do you supply Ecclesall Road and Broomhill cafés?
Yes, and student-corridor trade there follows the term calendar, which suits splitting an order across the academic year.
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Chosen for the trades that actually operate here rather than as a general list.
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