5 Tips on How to Choose a Good Food Packaging Supplier

Are you looking for food packaging for your restaurant, but you don’t know where to start? We're talking about shape, design, coating, gsm, locking system… Enough to give you a headache, right? If you are not familiar with these terms, you can first read our article, which explains the jargon used by food packaging suppliers step by step. 

But first of all, relax and take a deep breath because it’s not very complicated to get by when the right supplier surrounds you. All you have to do is pick it carefully. How? That’s what we’re going to find out right now.

In the rest of this article we will study 5 aspects that you should consider when choosing your food packaging supplier:

This first point is essential. There are 2 types of food packaging suppliers. On one side, we have the retailers. They purchase food packaging from producers and then resell it. They act as intermediaries. 

On the other hand, we have the manufacturers who, as their name suggests, produce food packaging themselves. It is therefore preferable that your supplier is also a manufacturer. If this is the case, you will be able to get better prices than if they were a retailer.

The retailer will have bought the food packaging from a manufacturer at a price that already includes the producer’s margin. To this price will be added the retailer’s margin. 

The final price at which you can purchase your product will therefore include the cost of production, the manufacturer’s margin, the cost of transportation to the retailer, the retailer’s margin, and finally, the cost of transportation to your storage location. 

By eliminating an intermediary, you will eliminate the retailer’s margin and the cost of transport to it. From an economic point of view, it is more advantageous for you to choose a supplier that is a manufacturer, but also in terms of reactivity. 

If you have any questions, modifications to make, or specific instructions, it will always be easier to communicate directly with the manufacturer of your packaging.

If your food packaging supplier is a manufacturer, you should be interested in its facilities.  

All these questions are important to ask to your supplier.

Next, you need to be interested in the services that the supplier offers. Some allow you to customize the packaging or create them to suit your needs, for example. 

Some of them can create mock-ups of your customised packaging for you to try them out in real conditions with your own food.

Are they readily available to answer your questions? Do they have their own delivery service? Etc.

A food packaging supplier needs to understand your problem and what you are looking for in this packaging. Once they have understood this well, they will be able to offer you their generic packaging or 100% customized packaging.

In the process of creating a customized packaging it is important that the manufacturer has perfectly understood your problem and is able to propose solutions to solve it. 

To do this, he must be creative and imaginative. It must adapt to your needs, question itself, and think outside the box.

The time between ordering and receiving your product is important. The shorter it is, the better, of course. This shows the reactivity of the supplier, but also the fluidity of their production process.

You have all the facts; it’s up to you now to decide on which food packaging supplier you're going for.

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