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Clear Packaging Potential of Fresh Food, Deli Cups and Salad Containers

For many customers, being able to view a product while it is in the package gives more confidence in the food they're buying. Convenience is also important, but customers also want to quickly survey the freshness of their food to feel more secure about their purchase.

Deli Business magazine recently reported on the advantages of clear food packaging and the impression it gives on the shelf. One sushi business owner who uses transparent packaging believes that clear packaging answers many customer concerns. "If you're hiding the product from consumers, they assume the worst," he says.

Experts for the Deli Business magazine article also commented that transparent packaging has a direct relationship to purchases. "Consumers tell us they want to see the product they're buying, so clear packaging has an advantage for driving sales," said one plastics manufacturer.

Interesting and functional packaging will always be huge part of the to go buying experience, the manufacturer says, and clear packaging is an added way to let the food draw its own attention. "The product itself must satisfy the consumer's perception of value."

Take out meal customers are not always looking for a typical to go meal like burgers or hot dogs. More often, they are interested in fresh food, like fruit, sandwiches and salads. With less time to spare for dining, salad containers that can close and seal quickly without leaking and deli cups that can be easily reheated stand out to grab-and-go consumers.

This kind of fast casual dining has become a focus industry wide. "With convenience on the front of today's busy shopper's minds," says plastic company marketing manager,"there's a greater need for microwavable takeout containers."

Customers drawn by the easy-to-see product are also pleased that it uses recyclable material, particularly food grade recycled PETE plastic. For nearly any food item, to go deli cups and clamshell salad containers with high clarity material can be the winning factor to move customers to reach for the shelf and make a purchase.

Information from Deli Business magazine, "Packaging Can Increase Impulse Sales" February/March 2010. Packaging Resources, Inc. offers salad containers available in 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 oz and made from food-grade recycled high clarity PETE, with a detachable lid. Deli cups, also made in a high clarity plastic, are available in 8, 12, 16, 32 oz.

Sterling King Products aluminum foil sheets, rolls and pans save time and cost

Aluminum foil is one of the most convenient assets to take out food businesses. As a versatile, ovenable and recyclable food packaging material, foil wrap and pans keep foods warm and easy to reheat when the consumer gets home.

Sterling King Products aluminum foil line provides different kinds of foil food packaging to suit particular foodservices. The colorful boxes are wipeable, easy to clean and prevent smudges and stains.

Nine and 12 inch aluminum foil pop up sheets and 12 and 18 inch aluminum foil rolls are recommended for caterers and institutions with a set menu that will require a specific size for their food, like sandwiches, pizza, hamburgers, and tacos. Cooks and chefs can save time and take only what they need from the pre-cut box to wrap their food. Because foil in this box is interfolded, the foil sheets can be grabbed quickly for each item. Foodservice professionals can also choose heavy duty or standard aluminum foil.

Foil pans, paired with laminated paperboard lids, are a traditional and convenient item with a 7 or 9 inch shape and easy to close seal. Sterling King Products foil pans are transportable and retain heat, a winning combination of qualities for carry out packaging.

By saving time and labor with sturdy and functional aluminum foil packaging, caterers are more free to focus on customers and on enhancing their food presentation.

Fast paced foodservice: How plastic film wrap works quickly and easily

The first objective in a busy kitchen is immediate response to customers. Minimizing waste of plastic food film wrap or any food packaging is an essential and cost-effective way to operate. Grease-resistant boxes are designed with a safe slide cutter to prevent wasting plastic film. The safety slide cutter dispenses exactly the length that the server requires. Cooks, chefs, and caterers report that they can also cut the plastic film using only one free hand.

When caterers need food wrapped up and moved, cleanliness is another necessity. Effective plastic film wrap limits spills and contains mess. Boxes that are wipeable with an anti-humidity barrier (like PRI’s) keep the entire roll of plastic film clean and kitchen spaces more tidy. All 12, 18 and 24 inch plastic food film wrap rolls are fitted with rubber feet that, like the slide cutter, prevent slipping and add convenience.

Foam Food Containers

The Shipping and Serving Benefits of Foam Packaging

Owing to professional partnership, PRI presents a unique blend of disposable material packaging product services, original automated manufacturing process and advanced shipping practices. PRI’s and its manufacturing collaborators deliver multi-faceted products with customer-satisfying solutions.

This arrangement of black and white plates, platters, bowls, trays and many convenient items are supported by leading production technology and versatile offering of materials.

Foam, plastic, film and clear packaging comprise one arm of PRI’s represented products. Both square and rectangular hinged lid foam containers (ideal for to go and take out orders) are available to aid all levels of food distribution and retail. Compartmented foam containers give take-out and dine-in flexibility.

With PRI, the line has also made space economy a keen focus in their shipping. A savvy management of fill items and floor-loaded trucks allows the customer's items delivered intact and at minimum cost.

This line of products has stationed itself at the forefront of the industry by introducing specialty anti-bacterial food wrapping film and dispenser for caterer and restaurant kitchens. It supplies an advantage for every food distributor, caterer, restaurant and retailer.

As a thoroughly forward-minded company, this international plastics manufacturer, and PRI-represented, serves as a leading industry example. In addition to producing above the expectation of the healthy guidelines, this company navigated the market with innovation.

Now producing in a U.S. facility, it has acted as a reliable production facilitation tool with top quality industrial design. These products are defined by a unique pattern for stability and are manufactured for embossing.

Customers benefit from the fastidious care this company exerts in the earliest production process. With new and sizable manufacturing abilities, a specifically designed cycle ensures that plastics and foam-making are mechanized and never in contact with human hands.

All foam containers and plates, plastic cups and wrap begin as resin and arrive as commercial packaging on the shelf with sound design and safe production.

Creative Cost-Cutting with Soufflé Cups

Like many businesses, the restaurant industry has been challenged to get customers inside their doors to dine during difficult financial times.

Even as conditions improve for the industry, keeping costs down (and customers inside the restaurant) is still a major concern.

Food Network celebrity chef Tyler Florence opened his recent food venture by stocking up on large-quantity inventory. If restaurateurs are purchasing food and packaging in bulk, it opens up another opportunity to serve clients and save on individual packaging.

Catering companies, restaurants and retailers can present desserts and sauces in disposable soufflé cups in a wide-variety of sizes, ranging from 1 to 5.5 oz, and made with No. 5 recyclable material.

Restaurant owners who buy in bulk can cut costs and add convenience. Side sauces, desserts and dressing items give something extra to diners and can be bought in large quantities.

Restaurant staff can use soufflé cups to measure portions of salsa, for example, and serve in economic sizes. Adding a compatible lid to salsa soufflé cups allows versatility as a take out to-go container. Dining flexibility, like a dine-in or to-go option, is another way for restaurants to win customers.

A spokesperson for the National Restaurant Association says that the foodservice industry should focus on these kinds of fundamentals of customer convenience more than ever before.

"Operating in a challenging economy calls for increasing productivity and managing costs to keep menu prices in check and guests in the door," she says. "It also sharpens the importance of giving guests what they want by providing options they are looking for, including environmental sustainability."

Cold Cups, Hot Desserts and Lids for all Occasions

From large to small liquid servings, PRI represents products that satisfy a host of packaging needs. One of our distinctive and successful product partners offers soufflé cups, 1 to 5.5 oz. as well as a multipurpose assortment of beverage lids and cups.

Black, clear and natural plastic are available for soufflé cups orders. Clear soufflé cup lids correspond to each size of cups. These special serving items are suitable for desserts, dressing, side dishes and many other packaging possibilities.

Clear beverage lids fit to and protect all sizes of beverage cups. These lids are designed in a flat style, including an x-shaped straw slot, domed lids with a sealed top as well as dome lids with hole.

With cup sizes ranging from 9 to 32 oz., the complete cups and lids program can meet a considerable number of beverage occasions.

Made from P.E.T. material, all cup items are produced using thermoforming making each sturdy and pleasing packaging. Like many companies operating in this climate, our proud partner has formed effective methods to meet the needs of manufacturers, distributors and, ultimately, the consumer. With interchangeable lids and cups, productions are not limited to restaurants or individuals.

Item supplies can deplete quickly for stores. For worried retailers strapped for inventory, PRI and its brand leaders can serve up the packaging supply solutions to fill in the gaps.

Despite the distinctive construction, this PRI-represented brand allows manufacturers to brand its food packaging items with their company identifiers while still getting the reliable quality and convenient delivery of products. This exceptional food packaging materials line has been specifically noted for steadfast commitment to competitive industry pricing.

Show or Substance?

Is dynamic visual presentation as important as the food inside?

As food packaging manufacturers, we know that substance and appearance are connected to each other when it comes to any food product. When both elements work well, the end product entices customers and encourages healthy foodservice business.

Surveying a shelf of product containers, consumers use their perception of food and the quality of packaging when making a purchase. An appealing container informs the buyer's opinion of the food inside. We believe that the presentation or "look and feel" of a food product is of equal importance as the food itself. In-mold labeling gives an intangible element that engages customers and translates to positive attitudes and more sales.

Undeniably, a food product with unique packaging receives a favorable response from the consumer.

In-mold labeling allows for custom packaging designs. Because in-mold labeling uses machines that insert a company's graphics and logo, each new product mold establishes the company's brand identity and facilitates greater brand recognition.

Greening Ability

In-mold labeling typifies one of the quieter but positive ecological features of plastic containers.

A customized container for a milk or cheese product, for instance, stands apart from normal containers with outstanding art. Besides sharp graphics and design distinction without parallel, in-mold labeling products offer a new outlet for sustainability. These products are considerably washable and support reuse. The same cannot be said of other plastic packaging.

Dairy products that come in custom containers not only stand out on visual appeal. Because in-mold labeled containers are made with polypropylene, one of the most recyclable plastics, food processors that use these containers are making a positive contribution to the environment that help them stand apart in the marketplace.

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