Restaurant supply wholesaler · Southern California
Aluminum containers and trays
Reordered inside a week and added a new tray to the second order.
Who we land for
Products we supply
Single-use and back-of-house lines that a distributor reorders on a cycle. High volume, tight specs, and a cost per case that decides whether you win the account.
Bagasse clamshells
Moulded sugarcane fibre, the compostable answer to foam. Specified by compartment count and footprint, and by whether it has to carry a compostability certification for the state it is sold into.
Bulky and light. A container of clamshells fills on volume long before it reaches its payload, which makes it the natural thing to pair with something heavy.
Kraft paper bags
Virgin or recycled kraft, specified by basis weight, handle type and whether the inside has to resist grease. This is the line buyers most often want their own name printed on.
Light and compressible. Printing is what moves the lead time, not the bag.
Aluminum containers and foil
Steam table pans, take-out containers and foil rolls. Specified by alloy and gauge - gauge is where a cheap quote hides, because a thinner wall looks identical in a photograph and buckles in a warmer.
Denser than it looks. Nested containers travel well and help a light container reach a sensible payload.
Wooden sushi boxes
Thin poplar or pine for food contact, cut to the sizes a sushi programme actually runs. Moisture content is the spec that matters; too wet and the boxes warp between the factory and your dock.
Sold in several sizes at once, which is exactly the case a mixed container is for.
Binchotan and ogatan charcoal
Binchotan is hardwood white charcoal, ogatan is a compressed sawdust briquette. Both are specified by fixed carbon, ash and moisture, and those three numbers are the difference between a clean burn and a complaint.
Heavy. Charcoal reaches the container's payload limit well before it fills the space, so it belongs in the same box as something bulky.
Customer results
Foodservice distributor · Oakland
Kraft paper bags
Sent a second PO three weeks after the first, with its own name printed on the carton.
Japanese restaurant supplier · Bay Area
Binchotan and ogatan charcoal
Moved its charcoal onto a six-month standing order.
Restaurant supply buyer · Los Angeles
Wooden sushi boxes
Took six sizes in one mixed 40-foot container.
Paper cups
Bagasse clamshells
Questions about this category
Is this food-contact safe, and can you prove it?
Yes, and the proof travels with the order. For anything that touches food we hold the factory to the relevant food-contact standard and our inspector checks the marking on the carton against the spec before it ships.
Can you print our name on the carton?
Yes. Send the artwork and we proof it with the factory before production starts. Printing is usually what sets the lead time on a first order, so it is worth deciding early rather than at the end.
Are the compostable lines actually certified?
Only if you ask for certified stock, and then it is written into the spec rather than assumed. “Compostable” on a supplier's website and a certification a buyer in California can rely on are not the same claim.
What is the minimum per product inside a mixed container?
The minimum is one container in any mix, but each individual product still has a factory minimum - usually a run length rather than a case count. We tell you the real one per line when we price the list, so you can see whether a product is worth including on this order or the next.