Paper Lunch Trays.
School and canteen service — compartments that keep a meal separated on one tray.
Your custom box, quoted.
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Paper Lunch Trays
School and canteen service — compartments that keep a meal separated on one tray.
Multiple components on a single carried surface, with walls high enough that sauces do not migrate. Volume economics govern every material decision.
Every detail. Intentional.
Compartments separate the meal
On one carried surface.
Walls stop migration
Sauce staying where it was served.
Volume economics
Bought by the case, judged on failures.
Rigid when fully loaded
A full tray is genuinely heavy.
Stacks and nests
Storage in a service kitchen.
Fibre where composting exists
Increasingly specified in schools.
Built like architecture.
Each Paper Lunch Trays is an engineered object — measured, dieline-cut, and hand-wrapped to spec. Below: the standard build sheet.
✦ Need a custom spec? Talk to our atelier — every detail is negotiable.
Every surface, hand-selected.
What this product is built from, and the surfaces it takes. Below the build sheet, the full swatch library — every option applies across our range, and a physical swatch set is available on request.
Material
The board and paper your box is built from.
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How the outer surface looks, feels, and catches light.
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Closures, linings, and hardware that complete the build.
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The full kit of capabilities.
Sizing & dieline.
Every Paper Lunch Trays is cut to a dieline built around your product — not pulled off a shelf. Send us the length, width and height of the item (or the item itself) and we return a measured dieline, free, before you commit to anything.
Length, width and height of the item itself, at its widest points — not the box you happen to use today.
Allow 2–4 mm on each axis for a snug fit, and more if you are adding foam, a pillow insert or tissue.
We quote as Length × Width × Height. Tell us whether you are working in millimetres or inches and we match it.
✦ Not sure of your size? Send us the product — we measure it and build the dieline.
Pricing & minimums.
Paper Lunch Trays is priced per specification rather than from a fixed list — the same box in two different finishes can land at very different numbers. Below is what actually moves the price, so you can shape the spec before you request a quote.
The single biggest lever. Unit cost falls sharply as volume rises, because setup and tooling spread across more pieces.
Board weight and stock choice change both the raw material cost and the shipping weight of the finished run.
Foil, spot UV, embossing and soft-touch each add a pass on press. One or two lift the box; five compound the cost.
Full-bleed print inside and out costs more than a one-sided design on natural stock.
Foam, moulded pulp, velvet pillows, magnets and ribbon are priced per piece on top of the box itself.
Standard production is the base rate. Rush moves you up the production queue and carries a surcharge.
✦ Quotes returned within 24 hours — no obligation, no account required.
What brands say.
“The best packaging partner we've ever worked with. Every box feels like an event.”
“Our unboxing experience went from forgettable to remarkable. The magnetic close is chef's kiss.”
“Fast turnaround, flawless quality, and the design support is genuinely exceptional.”
Questions, answered.
Everything you need to know about Paper Lunch Trays.
Map it against your actual menu rather than choosing the higher number for flexibility — that is the mistake that causes problems.
Three wells — typically main, side and dessert. This covers most standard meal services and gives each component a usefully sized space.
Five wells — for menus with more components, or where a piece of fruit and a drink carton also sit on the tray.
The trade-off is direct: more wells means smaller portions in each. A five-well tray the same size as a three-well tray has a noticeably smaller main compartment, and if your main portion does not fit, serving staff will overfill it and sauce will slop into the neighbouring wells.
Send us your actual portion sizes for each component and we will lay the wells out around them.
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