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Custom hospitality packaging for restaurants, hotels and venues

Custom hospitality packaging is ViCES Studio's main packaging focus. We design takeaway and dessert boxes, branded bags, sleeves, printed food-service papers, PR kits and guest gifting for restaurants, hotels, bars and venues. Packaging can be commissioned on its own or coordinated with uniforms and venue merchandise. Design is created in-house in Toronto; manufacturing is facilitated through our established worldwide supply chain, with sampling, quality control and delivery managed for clients worldwide.

Hospitality buyer guide

Choose packaging around your service

A restaurant takeaway order, a hotel gift and a venue launch need different packaging. Start with what goes inside, how it is handed over and where it travels. We turn that brief into custom design and manage sourcing, sampling, production and delivery through our worldwide supply chain.

Restaurant takeaway & dessert boxes

Share the filled product dimensions, portion size and whether food is hot, cold, oily or moist. Review fit, closure, carrying and stacking at sample stage. Blue Bovine's dessert boxes show packaging developed for a specific hospitality product.

Printed papers, bags & service details

Build a coordinated set around the items guests use during service. Grand Public's program includes branded kraft bags, chopstick sleeves and printed napkins, with colours matched across different stocks.

Hotel guest gifting

Plan the contents, handover moment and whether the gift stays in-room or travels home. The 124 Queen Hotel & Spa project includes branded guest gift bags alongside its staff apparel program; it is not a food-packaging case study.

Venue launches & press kits

Separate the invitation or gift presentation from everyday service packaging. Powder Room Yorkville's PR project includes rigid caviar invitation boxes, branded tins, printed cards and inserts, plus hand-kitted press and VIP dispatch.

What to send with your packaging brief

  • Packaging items, contents and filled dimensions, with a photo or reference where available.
  • Quantity per item, launch or restock date, budget range and delivery destination.
  • Food-contact use, temperature, grease or moisture exposure and any documentation your operation requires.
  • Logo and artwork files, brand colours and preferred materials or finishes.
  • Storage limits, packing method, expected consumption and likely reorder needs.
Discuss hospitality packaging

How we approach it

A guest experiences a hospitality brand through a sequence of physical objects: what staff wear, what food and drink arrive in, what is handed over at the door and what leaves the building. When those come from different suppliers they drift apart in colour, stock and finish. Running them as one program keeps the palette, materials and decoration consistent.

Hospitality packaging has to work during service, not just in a photograph. Food-contact requirements, grease and moisture exposure, packing speed, storage space and replenishment needs belong in the brief. These requirements guide material selection and sampling; suitability for the intended use must be confirmed rather than assumed from appearance.

Grand Public branded kraft takeaway bag with peacock crest, a ViCES Studio hospitality packaging project

Deliverables

What you receive

Takeaway & service packaging

Boxes, bags, sleeves, liners and inserts specified for food and beverage service.

Staff uniforms

Front and back of house uniform programs sized, decorated and reordered.

Guest gifting

In-room, VIP and turndown gifting items and the boxes they arrive in.

Venue merchandise

Retail and giveaway product for the bar, front desk or venue shop.

Signage & collateral

Printed collateral, menus, cards and signage matched to the wider suite.

Reorder programs

Repeat production planned so consumables and uniforms restock predictably.

Process

Discover to deliver

01

Discover

Walk the guest journey and list every branded object in it.

02

Design

One design system applied across packaging, uniform and collateral.

03

Source

Factories selected per item, costed as one program.

04

Sample

Samples reviewed in the venue, in service conditions.

05

Produce

Coordinated production so items land together, not piecemeal.

06

Deliver

Delivery to venue with reorder quantities agreed.

Questions

Hospitality packaging & merchandise: common questions

What does a hospitality program include?
Typically takeaway and service packaging, front and back of house uniforms, guest gifting, venue merchandise and printed collateral, designed as one system and produced together so colour, stock and finish match.
Can you meet food-safe and service requirements?
Tell us whether packaging directly touches food, what it contains, its temperature and any grease or moisture exposure. Food-contact and service requirements are written into the specification before sourcing and sampling. Required documentation and suitability for your use need to be confirmed for the selected material and supplier; we do not make a blanket certification claim for every packaging item.
Do you work with new venue openings?
Yes. Opening programs cover packaging, uniforms, PR kits, invitations, signage and event execution as one delivery, timed to the opening date.
Can a venue reorder items individually?
Yes. Reorder quantities and cadence are agreed at delivery so consumable packaging and uniform stock can be topped up without re-running the whole program.
How long does a hospitality program take?
Most programs run four to eight weeks from approved design. Multi-item openings are sequenced so long-lead items start first.
What do you need to quote custom hospitality packaging?
Send the packaging items, filled dimensions, quantity per item, required date, budget range and delivery destination. Include artwork or brand references and explain any food-contact, storage or service requirements. Construction, materials, finishes, quantity and freight determine the quote; there is no single published price that fits every brief.
What is the minimum order for restaurant or hotel packaging?
Minimums depend on the packaging construction, material, finish and supplier. Share quantities for each item so we can assess the brief and sourcing options. A small PR gifting run and an ongoing takeaway packaging order have different production requirements; confirm the minimum against your quote.
How should we review a hospitality packaging sample?
A physical sample is reviewed before volume production. Check artwork, colour, dimensions and finish, then assess it with the intended contents and packing method. For service packaging, include fit, closure, stacking, storage and handling in your review. Agree any revisions and the written specification before approval.
How do repeat orders and multi-location deliveries work?
Share expected usage, stock space, quantities by location and delivery destinations at briefing. Reorder quantities and cadence are agreed for the program, and individual items can be reordered without repeating the entire suite. Confirm current minimums, lead times and freight when placing each order; repeat stock is not assumed to be immediately available.
Can you support hospitality brands outside Toronto?
Yes. Toronto and Miami are studio bases, not service boundaries. ViCES Studio serves clients worldwide, with custom design created in-house and manufacturing facilitated through its established global supply chain. Delivery requirements and the freight route are scoped to the project.

Start a hospitality packaging & merchandise program

Send the brief, target quantity, timeline and budget range. We return a recommended creative and production path, preliminary costing and a sampling plan.