For even more professional look, why not give your takeaway food a professional box of chicken nuggets? Sharp Custom Boxes can provide custom packaged nuggets in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, materials, and printing for restaurants, takeaways, food trucks, and catering companies across the UK. Choose food-grade paperboard, kraft paperboard, box types, and finishes to match your brand. Similarly, see our Empty Chocolate Boxes With Inserts and Custom Appetizer Boxes for additional presentation options. The boxes can include windows, compartments, logos, colours, and helpful features.
Chicken nuggets are a popular dish in pubs, takeaways, fast food restaurants, food trucks, and catering businesses across the UK. To make them shine, they need to be prepared well. As well as being tasty, they also need good packaging to keep the servings neat and tidy. Custom chicken nugget boxes allow food businesses to choose the box to match the size of their portion, style of serving, brand, and handling requirements.
Sharp Custom Boxes create bespoke food packaging to suit your brand. From small boxes for individual portions through to larger boxes for family meals and combination servings, we can tailor the size, print, finish, and layout to suit your business. This means you don’t have to settle for generic takeaway packaging that may be too large or too small or not fit for purpose.
Chicken nuggets are fried and contain heat, moisture, and oil. The unsuitable packaging can impact the overall experience of serving them. The excess moisture in the packaged product could soften the crisp, and the grease from the packaging could undermine the appearance and performance of the box. A properly designed food box can alleviate these difficulties and provide customers with a better, cleaner, and more convenient way to enjoy their meal.
The box structure is also important. The nuggets don’t need to float around when they are handled, and the box should be strong enough to keep its shape. This is particularly important for takeaway and delivery businesses since the box can be carried from the restaurant to the car, workplace, home, or another area before eating.
The material should be selected based on the type of food, serving temperature, required strength, printing requirements, and intended use. Food grade paperboard is a popular choice as it is highly rigid, printer-friendly, and easy to handle. It can also be customized into different packs depending on size.
Kraft paperboard is also an option for businesses looking for a natural and understated appearance. Its distinctive texture of paper could suit restaurants and takeaways who favour a simple packaging scheme. A barrier coating may also be an option for further resistance to grease or moisture.
For heavier or heavier applications, we recommend choosing a board construction with added strength. At Sharp Custom Boxes, the material and construction of a box can be discussed with you in relation to your product rather than focusing on an existing packaging design.
Two factors to consider when packaging freshly cooked chicken nuggets are grease and moisture. If the packaging isn’t appropriate for the food, oil can cling to the outside of the box and hot food can cause moisture to compromise the texture and strength of the box.
All of these challenges are lessened when paperboard is chosen in the right specification and treated to eliminate the potential for damaging a food product.
For takeaway businesses, this balance is important as the box must protect the food whilst also allowing it to be served. Ventilation can be considered to manage steam in the box, depending on the box structure and type of food packed.
There’s no one box style that works for every business selling chicken nuggets. The right size, packing process, storage space and the way customers get their food are all factors to consider when selecting the right box. Tuck-end boxes make it easy to open and close, while auto-bottom boxes provide a firm base and a much quicker assembly process.
Window boxes are useful for those customers who prefer to see the food before opening it. These boxes can be folded in half, saving space when stacking the boxes. Custom die-cuts allow for further customization for a special shape, opening, or presentation.
Custom packaging offers the greatest advantage of developing the box around your menu rather than simply stuffing it into an oversized box.
Yes, our custom sizing allows you to create your packaging according to the actual portion size. A small portion for a child’s meal may require a box completely different to that for a larger takeaway or family-size order.
The length, width, and depth of your box can be changed based on the number of nuggets, extra food items, and how your staff packs the order. This will make the packaging look more organised and reduce empty space inside.
Plus, the dimensions can be tailored to better accommodate nuggets served with fries, sauces, dips, or other sides. Instead of using several containers which are not related, a box can be made to hold the entire serving.
Your packaging will also travel with the food to ensure your brand is present at the point of purchase and again when the customer opens their order. Custom printed chicken nugget boxes can be converted from a simple food box into a package that reflects your business.
Your logo, brand colours, illustrations, product info, website details, QR codes, and other artwork can all be incorporated into the design. You can choose a bold graphic style for a fast-food company or a more restrained look for a premium restaurant.
Sharp Custom Boxes offers customized boxes in various colours, materials, dimensions, printing, finishes and artwork. That gives you more control over how your food packaging looks and feels.
Choose the printing method based on the artwork and packaging you are designing. CMYK printing is great for images that are highly detailed, photographs, illustrations, gradients or full-colour artwork. Brands can use this printing method to create colourful boxes.
To keep with the brand colour, a colour matching service such as Pantone colour matching can be considered. Simpler designs can also work well, especially on kraft-style boxes with a bold logo and limited colours.
Important information should be easy to read. Product names, ingredients, allergens, and other required information should be high contrast and type-sized so customers can easily find them.
Finishing can give your packaging a different look and feel, such as matte or gloss. The softer, contemporary look of a matte finish can be set off by a brighter glossy finish. Depending on the chosen material and package structure, we may also provide spot UV, varnish, foil stamping, embossing, and debossing options.
You do not need a complicated finish to make beautiful food packaging. A well-designed logo, appropriate font, brand colours and a clean box structure can all make a greater impression than lots of decoration.
Yes, custom-packaged foods can be practical if the structure and food application of the product allow it. For instance, a window could be added to the product that gives visibility to the nuggets without the consumer having to open the box to see them. This is useful for products where presentation is part of the purchasing experience.
Also consider the compartments if you are serving nuggets with fries, dips, sauces, or other items. Arranging these smaller pieces makes the meal more manageable and less messy.
QR codes can also be embedded into the artwork to connect the customer to the menu, order page, product information, or other relevant digital resources. The key is to create features that will enhance the customer’s experience and not add things that are unnecessary.
Takeaway packaging needs to perform quickly because restaurants and food outlets often serve a lot of customers during busy times. A box that is difficult to assemble or close can be an issue for staff, while the packaging that is unclear and too loose may cause problems with transport.
The custom chicken nugget boxes can be designed around your packaging process so your staff can place the food within and seal the package properly. The size of the box can be tailored to the size of the serving so that the box appears more sorted rather than oversized.
It’s not unusual for customers to remark that convenient opening, easy carrying, neat presentation and portioning can make their takeaway experience feel more thoughtful.
When choosing chicken nugget packaging in the UK, it’s not just about appearance. The type of material used should be suitable for the intended use and the size and shape of the box should correspond with the volume and handling requirements.
Another aspect of the packaging specification should be grease and moisture resistance, printing requirements, storage, order size, box construction, delivery conditions, information on packaging and the information that needs to be on the packaging. For packaging that comes into direct contact with food, the specification should be suitable for that particular usage and should meet food-contact standards.
Also, your packaging supplier should be able to understand the visual as well as practical aspects of the project. That’s where bespoke packaging can provide a greater degree of flexibility than stock boxes.
Sharp Custom Boxes offers custom boxes for businesses who want to create packaging around their products rather than pick out generic sizes. You can discuss dimensions, material, box style, printing, finishing, and other details with Sharp Custom Boxes prior to production.
Designers at Packaging Design also offer design assistance, samples, custom printing and shipping options, so businesses can take their packaging from a concept to a finished product. Whether you are launching a new takeaway menu or repackaging an old food business, the packaging can be designed around your brand and customer numbers.
You will simply need to describe your desired box dimensions and the number of nuggets it needs to accommodate. Then, just pick out the materials, format, printing, and finish and whatever else you would like to have included.
After the packaging concept has been developed, you can review it before going ahead with production. Before you place a large order, be sure to check on proportions, artwork, branding and overall appearance.
If you are looking for chicken nugget boxes in the UK, Sharp Custom Boxes can help you create packaging that blends food safety with branding. Read more: custom eco friendly boxes
| DIMENSIONS | All Custom Sizes & designs are Available. |
| PRINTING | Plain Box In Any Custom Color, CMYK Printing, Pantone Color Matching. |
| PAPER STOCK | 10pt to 28pt (60lb to 400lb) Eco-Friendly Kraft, E-flute Corrugated, Bux Board, Card Material. |
| QUANTITIES | 50 quantity to unlimited quantity. |
| COATING | Gloss Shiny, Matte Dull Look, Spot Shiny UV. |
| DEFAULT PROCESS | Die Cutting, Gluing, Scoring, Perforation ( If Required ). |
| OPTIONS | Custom Shape Window Cut Out In Any Custom Size/Style, Hot Foil Stamping in Any Color, Embossing/Debossing, Raised Ink, PVC Sheet. |
| PROOF | 2D Flat View, 3D Mock-up In PDF Format, Physical Sampling (On Demand At Little Cost). |
| TURNAROUND TIME | 6-8 Business/Working Days, Urgent Delivery Also Available. |
