Custom Food Restaurant Packaging That Builds Your Brand
Custom food restaurant packaging is one of the most powerful and underused branding tools available to foodservice businesses. Every bag, box, wrapper, and container that leaves your kitchen carries your identity into your customer's home, office, or car. When that packaging is thoughtfully designed and professionally printed, it reinforces your brand, encourages repeat business, and turns every delivery or takeaway order into a brand touchpoint. At Teal Packaging, we specialize in producing high-quality custom restaurant food packaging for restaurants, food trucks, ghost kitchens, catering companies, and quick-service chains, with a minimum order of 50 units, free shipping included on every order, and free design support on every order.
The range of packaging formats that fall under custom food restaurant packaging is broad. From printed carrier bags and branded tissue paper to custom takeaway boxes, food-grade wrapping paper, gable boxes, and clamshell containers, each element of your packaging system can be coordinated with consistent branding across every surface. A cohesive packaging system communicates professionalism, quality, and attention to detail that customers notice and remember. It also performs an important functional role: keeping food at the right temperature, preventing leakage, and maintaining presentation from kitchen to table.
Materials and Specifications
Our manufacturing partners offer a full range of materials suited to different restaurant packaging applications:
- 300-400gsm SBS or Folding Box Board: Used for takeaway boxes, meal boxes, and gable-top carriers. Food-safe PE inner coatings prevent grease migration. FSC-certified.
- 40-80gsm Food Grade Paper: Greaseproof sheets, deli tissue, and butcher-style wrap for sandwich shops, delis, and burger concepts. Available bleached white or natural kraft.
- 120-180gsm Kraft Paper: Carrier bag construction weight. Twisted or flat paper handles available. Food-safe printing throughout.
- Corrugated board (B-flute, E-flute): Double-wall corrugated for insulated pizza boxes, large catering boxes, and delivery-optimized outer packaging. Available in brown kraft or white-lined finish.
All materials are specified with food-safe inks and coatings where direct product contact occurs. FSC-certified board and paper is standard across the range. Soy-based inks are used for all print production runs, meeting food safety and environmental performance standards simultaneously.
Customization Options
A complete custom food restaurant packaging system can be designed with consistent branding across every format. Available customization includes:
- Logo and brand color printing: Full-color CMYK and Pantone spot color printing on all packaging formats. Keep every bag, box, and sheet on-brand.
- Custom packaging shapes: Die-cut boxes, branded carrier bags, custom tuck boxes, gable-top carriers, and sleeve wraps all available.
- Finishes: Gloss lamination, matte lamination, aqueous coating, or uncoated kraft for a natural aesthetic suited to farm-to-table and organic dining concepts.
- Foil accents: Gold, silver, and metallic foil stamping for premium restaurant and fine dining takeaway packaging.
- Tissue and wrap branding: Branded tissue paper, greaseproof sheets, and deli wraps to line boxes and wrap individual portions.
- Sticker and label programs: Custom stickers and adhesive labels to seal bags and boxes can coordinate with the full packaging system.
Standard Sizes in Inches
Restaurant packaging spans a wide range of sizes. Common formats and dimensions include:
- 5 x 5 x 3 inches - small meal boxes for sides, appetizers, or individual portions
- 7 x 5 x 3.5 inches - standard burger box or medium meal box
- 9 x 6 x 4 inches - large meal combo boxes or family-size portion containers
- 12 x 12 x 2 inches - standard pizza box size for artisan or personal pizza formats
- 14 x 10 x 4 inches - catering boxes for family meals and sharing platters
- Carrier bags: 8 x 4 x 10 inches and 10 x 5 x 12 inches for single and double meal orders respectively
Custom dimensions are available for all formats. Provide your product and serving requirements and our team will design the optimal packaging specification for your kitchen's needs.
Sustainability Commitments
Sustainability credentials are increasingly important to restaurant customers, particularly in urban markets. Custom food restaurant packaging from Teal Packaging is produced using FSC-certified board and paper, verifying responsible forest management at source. Soy-based inks replace petroleum inks across all print runs. Compostable options are available for restaurants committed to waste-reduction operations, including PLA-coated boxes and certified compostable kraft bags.
Mono-material packaging options reduce recycling complexity for your customers. Unlined kraft paper and uncoated board can be recycled in standard paper streams and composted in home compost bins. For restaurants that want to communicate sustainability credentials on-pack, we can incorporate certified compostable or recyclable claim markings and associated certification logos into your packaging artwork.
Our manufacturing partners operate under internationally recognized environmental management standards to minimize production waste and energy use throughout manufacturing.
Explore our custom food boxes for a foundational restaurant packaging format, our corrugated boxes for insulated delivery packaging, and our display boxes for counter presentation solutions.
How to Order
Getting your custom food restaurant packaging program started with Teal Packaging is designed to be simple and fast:
- Step 1 - Consultation and quote: Tell us which packaging formats you need, your approximate quantities, and your timeline.
Our team provides a full quote within one business day.
- Step 2 - Design: Share your brand assets or work with our free design support team to develop artwork for each format. Digital proofs are issued for every item in your packaging system before production begins.
- Step 3 - Production: Once artwork is approved and payment confirmed, production begins across all formats simultaneously. Standard lead time is approximately two weeks.
- Step 4 - Delivery: Free shipping is included on every Teal order, with delivery details confirmed during quoting. Tracking provided on dispatch. Phased delivery for large multi-format programs available on request.
Minimum order is 50 units per SKU. Volume discounts apply for larger restaurant groups and franchise operations. Also explore our kraft boxes for natural-finish restaurant packaging and our retail boxes for branded retail food product lines.
