Detailed Product Description:

 

Aluminum Foil Food Service Products

 

Aluminum foil products serve an increasingly large share of the food service market. By definition, the food service industry includes the preparation, serving and/or storing of all food consumed outside the home.

 

In general, the food service market can be divided into four categories:

 

Commercial Feeding

fast food operations (most) 

restaurants and cafeterias 

caterers 

refreshment bars 

Semi-Commercial Feeding

schools and colleges 

clubs, including service clubs 

public transportation 

Institutional and Charitable Feeding

hospitals and nursing homes 

prisons and jails 

convents and seminaries 

disaster feeding 

Government Feeding

military personnel 

civilian personnel 

Various types and sizes of foil-sheet wraps have been developed specifically to serve the needs of this market, as have foil pans, cartons, and other items. However, the principal volume of food service dish, pan, and container requirements is served with standard stock. 

 

Aluminum foil is employed in food service establishments in quantity. All sizes, weights and packaging are tailored to the particular operating requirements of the food establishment.

 

Institutional plain foil availability includes a variety of convenient widths in lengths of 200 to 2000 feet. Heavy duty foil has proved the most popular weight in bulk roll applications. Shorter lengths, 25 to 200 feet, in the 0.0006 to 0.00095 in. gauge range are also packed in convenience cartons for food service or any use, and are similar to household foil packages.

 

Plain or printed "wrap" sheets are packed interleaved or interfolded in various widths and lengths, in handy dispensing cartons.

 

"Hooding foil", for covering hot or cold dishes and lunch containers, is supplied in sheets and rolls of appropriate size.

 

Foil carry out bags of various sizes for hot or cold foods, or for other products, printed or plain, are packed 500 to 1000 per carton. 

 

Laminated foil/waxed tissue "sandwich" wrap sheets are available plain or printed on foil and/or on the waxed paper sides, in standard or custom sizes.

 

Foil folding cartons and trays designed specifically for food service or other use with foil inside, outside, or both, are attractive and practical. Any surface may be printed or coated.

 

Formed foil pans, as discussed earlier in this chapter, are used in increasing volume for institutional and commercial food service. About 75 to 100 of the hundreds of sizes and styles of foil pans and foil/fibre trays and boxes available accommodate most food service applications.

 

The following five basic types of formed all-foil containers are most generally used:

 

Round Rectangular 

Compartmented

Formed-Foil Lids  Steam Table Containers