Custom Fast Food & Takeaway Boxes

Fast Food & Takeaway Categories We Package

We manufacture custom packaging across the full range of fast food and takeaway formats. Each category has its own dedicated page with detailed product-specific information.

Burger Boxes

Custom packaging for burgers, sliders, and stacked sandwiches. Burger boxes need to contain a product with significant height variation, high oil content from the patty and sauces, and a structural vulnerability to compression. The burger box is one of the most brand-visible packaging formats in the fast food category – it’s handled, opened, and in many cases photographed before the burger is eaten.

Pizza Boxes

Custom packaging for pizzas of all sizes – from personal through to family formats. Pizza boxes are the largest and most structurally demanding format in everyday fast food packaging, and the corrugated construction that’s standard in the category has specific ventilation and steam management requirements for a product that’s served hot and needs to arrive crispy.

Hot Dog Boxes

Custom packaging for hot dogs, corn dogs, and similar elongated food formats. Hot dog packaging needs to hold the product at an angle or upright, accommodate toppings without them falling off, and be easy to eat from in a standing or walking context – common in stadium, event, and food truck settings.

Fried Chicken Boxes

Custom packaging for fried chicken pieces, tenders, and wings. Fried chicken packaging faces the most demanding combination of oil content, heat, and crispiness preservation of any fast food format. The packaging needs to contain significant oil, allow steam to escape to preserve the crispy exterior, and hold the pieces without them being compressed during transport.

Fish and Chips Boxes

Custom packaging for fish, chips, and seafood takeaway. Fish and chips packaging needs to handle high oil content, significant steam production, and the tradition of the open-top or newspaper-style format that’s culturally associated with the category in Australia.

Taco Boxes

Custom packaging for tacos, burritos, kebabs, wraps, and Mexican or Middle Eastern-style food formats. These boxes need to hold upright or rolled products that are structurally unstable – a filled taco or kebab can tip and spill its contents easily – and accommodate multiple components that may need to be kept separate until consumption.

Choosing the Right Fast Food Box Configuration

The configuration decisions for fast food packaging depend on the product format, the service volume, and the delivery or dine-in context.

Oil and grease resistance is a baseline requirement across all fast food formats. Fast food is the highest oil-content food category in everyday retail and food service. Burger patties, fried chicken, chips, and pizza all produce oil that migrates into standard paperboard rapidly. A base that isn’t grease resistant will show through-staining and lose structural integrity within the service window of the product. For fast food packaging, grease resistance is not a premium specification – it’s a baseline requirement that applies across all formats.

High-frequency assembly requires formats that work at speed. In a fast food service environment, packaging is assembled, filled, and handed over at a pace that leaves no room for a format that’s slow to fold, awkward to close, or unreliable in its closure. The box format needs to suit the pace of the service environment – a format that works perfectly at a bench at normal speed needs to work just as reliably when a team member is assembling it under pressure during a peak period. Formats that pre-fold consistently, close with a single motion, and hold reliably without requiring checking are the practical standard for high-volume fast food service.

Steam ventilation vs heat retention. All hot fast food products produce steam, and the balance between allowing steam to escape and retaining enough heat to deliver a hot product is a packaging design challenge across the category. Too much ventilation cools the product too rapidly; too little ventilation makes the product soggy from condensed steam. The right balance is product-specific – a burger needs different ventilation to a pizza, and fried chicken needs different ventilation to chips. Each format page covers the specific ventilation requirements for that product.

Delivery platform compatibility has changed fast food packaging requirements. A burger box that works perfectly for a counter handover may not work equally well after twenty minutes in a delivery bag. For fast food businesses with significant delivery platform volume – which now represents a major proportion of fast food sales in Australia – the packaging specification needs to account for the delivery context: the additional time before consumption, the handling conditions of a delivery bag, and the customer experience of receiving the packaging at their door rather than at a counter.

Fast Food & Takeaway-Specific Considerations

A few properties of the fast food and takeaway category that create specific packaging requirements.

Food safety for hot ready-to-eat products. Fast food is ready-to-eat food that is consumed without further cooking. The packaging materials need to meet food safety standards for direct contact with hot food, and they need to maintain those standards at the temperature of the product at the point of packaging – which for freshly cooked fast food may be 60 to 80 degrees Celsius. Standard packaging materials that are food safe at ambient temperature need to be confirmed for food safety at these serving temperatures.

The environmental regulatory landscape is changing. Australian states and territories have progressively introduced restrictions on single-use plastics in food service, and the regulatory direction is clearly toward more restriction rather than less. Fast food businesses that want to reduce their plastic waste and meet sustainability goals have a growing range of eco friendly options – compostable, biodegradable, and recyclable materials that reduce environmental impact without compromising the sturdy construction that fast food packaging requires. For businesses planning their packaging specifications, the regulatory trajectory in their operating state is worth understanding before committing to a format that may require redesign.

Brand consistency across multiple locations. For fast food chains and multi-location restaurant groups, the packaging is a brand asset that needs to be consistent across every location. A customer who receives a well-branded burger box at one location has a brand expectation that the same brand should meet at every other location. Managing packaging consistency across a restaurant network – same print quality, same materials, same construction – requires a packaging supplier who can deliver consistent quality at the required volume. This is a procurement and quality consideration that’s more significant for multi-location operators than for single-site restaurants.

The packaging is a marketing asset in the delivery context. When a fast food order arrives through a delivery platform, the packaging is the entire physical brand presence of the restaurant in the customer’s home. There’s no front-of-house experience – just the box that arrives. A well-designed package showcases the brand and creates a positive first impression at the door. For fast food businesses with significant delivery volume, the packaging design and quality have a direct impact on the brand impression that delivery customers receive and on their likelihood of reordering.

Print & Finishing for Fast Food & Takeaway Boxes

Fast food packaging spans a wide range of brand identities – from global chains with established visual systems to independent restaurants and food trucks with distinctive local personalities.

National chain fast food packaging needs to deliver brand consistency at scale – the same print quality, the same colour accuracy, and the same design execution across every location in the network. The visual system is already established; the packaging brief is about execution consistency and material performance rather than design creation. Full colour printing in CMYK with gloss or matte laminate is standard, with the specific finish choice driven by the brand’s established visual system.

Independent restaurant and food truck packaging has more creative freedom and often more distinctive personality. Food trucks and independent restaurants frequently develop strong visual identities that reflect the character of the food and the people behind it – bold illustration, specific colour palettes, typographic personality, and design that’s specific to the brand rather than generic fast food aesthetics. The packaging is a brand expression as much as a functional container, and the investment in a well-designed package pays back in brand recognition and customer engagement.

Eco friendly fast food packaging has developed its own visual language – kraft materials, minimal print, certification logos, and design elements that communicate environmental responsibility. For fast food businesses that position themselves on sustainability, the packaging communicates that positioning at every transaction. The design should feel consistent with the values it’s communicating – a sustainability-positioned brand in heavily printed, high-gloss packaging sends a mixed message.

All boxes are printed using full colour printing in CMYK. Files should be supplied as Adobe Illustrator (.ai) or high-resolution print-ready PDF, with fonts outlined and graphics embedded. Free design support is included – we’ll produce a free 3D mockup for your approval before production begins, and handle minor artwork adjustments at no extra charge. Free dieline templates are available if you’re building your artwork from scratch.

Materials & Specifications

We manufacture fast food and takeaway boxes in a full range of cardboard, paperboard, and corrugated materials, with grease-resistant and food-safe options across all formats. Eco friendly, compostable, and recyclable options are available for businesses with sustainability requirements. All materials are food grade and food safe.

• Single copper paper
• White kraft
• Brown kraft
• Black kraft
• Gold foil paper
• Silver foil paper
• Corrugated board

Minimum order quantity is 1,000 units. Air freight runs approximately 3 – 4 weeks from production sign-off; sea freight is approximately 8 weeks. We supply fast food businesses and restaurants across Australia including Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. For more detail on the full order process, artwork requirements, and lead times, get in touch and we’ll walk you through it.