CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Custom Packaging & Products donated custom-printed basket liners for the 13th annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The four-day festival, which helped raise more than $2 million for the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, was attended by 60,000 people. “The owner and chef of Tongue & Cheek, Jamie DeRosa, contacted us …
Have you ever wondered what makes an ink safe for use on food packaging? What stops a company from using a toxic chemical that could leech into your food? It stands to reason that an ink containing ingredients obviously unsafe to consume, like lead, should not be considered food safe. But who decides which ingredients are safe? A food-safe ink …
Custom-printed food packaging comes in different shapes and sizes for different applications. When trying to determine the thickness of the deli paper you need, it helps to decide what the paper will need to stand up to. For example, our lightweight sheets use 20 lb stock (see How Thick Is Custom-Printed Food Paper? for more details about basis weight). These …
Some paper is thicker than others. So how do you make a comparison when discussing different thicknesses? There are two common systems paper makers and printers use: grammage and basis weight. Grammage Grammage measures the number of grams per square meter of paper. Typical office paper, for example, weighs about 80 grams per square meter. Sometimes this is abbreviated 80 …
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Custom Packaging & Products has hired Drew Chicone as Director of Sales and Marketing. Chicone’s responsibilities will include speaking to clients about their custom-printed food packaging needs, as well as planning, coordinating, and implementing marketing strategies to bring in new business. Chicone was born and raised in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he …
Custom Packaging & Products recently delivered four custom-printed food paper designs to the STARZ channel for a corporate luncheon. The lunch featured four of the channel’s original television shows: “We were happy that STARZ contacted us for their special event,” said Ryan Van Horn, president of Custom Packaging & Products. “Sometimes the things that makes events special are the unique …
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Custom Packaging & Products delivered a custom-printed food packaging order in record time to an event on the 2013 Los Angeles Groove Cruise, the world’s largest floating dance music festival. The order was delivered only one week after being placed, on time for Carnival Cruise Lines on September 27. “We were happy to help The Groove …
If you own a restaurant, chances are you’re dealing problems that other owners have already dealt with. Why not learn from the wisdom of people who’ve already been there? You can do this by participating in a free online discussion area, or forum, with people who share a common interest. If you’ve never used a free online forum before, here …
Kraft paper is a kind of paper made by a chemical pulping process known as the kraft process. The name comes from the German word Kraft, meaning strong. It produces a very strong paper. Most people associate kraft paper with brown paper bags or brown butcher paper. Kraft paper isn’t always brown, however. Various bleaching steps can be added to …
Chances are you’re not the only restaurant in town. Wouldn’t it be nice to advertise to the fans of nearby restaurants? More specifically, what if you could target the fans of only restaurants you consider to be your competition? Let’s say you own a burger shack and you want to advertise to men between the ages of 20-50 who live …