Custom Shawarma Boxes

Sizing Custom Shawarma Boxes to Your Wraps

Wrap sizes vary a lot between shops. A wrap made with a large saj bread is long and slim, while a wrap rolled from a thicker flatbread is shorter and wider. The best way to size the box is to make a normal shawarma, wrap it as you would for a customer, and measure its length and its thickest diameter. Add a few millimetres all round so staff can drop it in quickly without tearing the paper.

If you serve more than one size, such as a regular and a large, consider two box heights with the same width. Staff can grab the right one at a glance and you only need one design. A box that is too short lets the wrap topple, and a box that is too long hides the food, so it is worth testing a sample before committing to a full run.

For twin boxes and platter boxes, measure the container or the space the food takes on the plate, then tell us whether sauce pots need to fit inside. We can add a small cut-out or a step in the insert so pots sit flat. p2 The guide to measuring a product for a box covers soft items that change shape.

Board That Copes With Heat and Sauce

Shawarma is hot, oily and often dressed with garlic sauce, tahini or chilli. Plain uncoated board soon shows grease spots, so we recommend a board with a grease-resistant coating on the inside. Kraft board with a light coating gives a rustic, street-food look, while white board shows bright colours and photos more clearly. Food-contact grade board is available on request, and we will confirm the specification with your quote.

Thickness matters too. A sleeve can be made from lighter board because the paper wrapping takes most of the moisture, but a long box that is held upright needs enough stiffness that it does not fold when gripped in the middle. For delivery boxes, a small vent hole near the top lets steam escape so the bread does not go soggy on the journey.

If your kitchen uses a hot holding cabinet, let us know. Boxes waiting in warm, steamy conditions need a slightly heavier board so they do not soften and lose their shape before the wrap goes in. p2 Board grades for hot food are compared on the guide to board and card types.

Artwork for a Kebab House or Grill

Good shawarma packaging is bold and simple. Your shop name in large letters, your phone number or ordering link, and perhaps a short line about what makes your marinade or bread special are usually enough. Arabic and English lettering together work well and look authentic when set carefully, and we will check the Arabic text on your proof so letters join correctly.

Repeated patterns, such as geometric tile designs or a simple line drawing of the grill, cover the box without needing photography. If you sell chicken, lamb and mixed wraps, a small printed tick box on the side lets staff mark the filling, which saves mix-ups on large orders. p1 The same pattern can run across printed takeaway paper bags so the whole order matches.

Who Uses Shawarma Packaging

Our customers include kebab houses, Lebanese and Syrian grills, Turkish restaurants, street food stalls, market traders and dark kitchens that only sell through delivery apps. Caterers serving shawarma at events order sleeves in bulk, and some takeaways use the same long box for falafel wraps, gyros and burritos.

Food trucks often prefer sleeves because they take up less storage space. Restaurants with a strong delivery trade lean towards closed boxes that travel better. Many shops start with one format and add the second once they see how customers use it. Ordering both in the same design keeps the look consistent whichever one leaves the counter. p1 Dark kitchens serving on apps often add our printed food boxes for rice plates for the platter orders.

Roll a Normal Wrap and Measure It at the Fattest Point

Shawarma boxes are sized from your own wrap, not from a chart, because a saj bread rolls long and slim while a thick flatbread rolls short and fat. Make one as you would for a customer, wrapped in its paper, then measure the length and the diameter at the fattest point. Add 5 mm each way so staff can drop it in without tearing the paper. For a regular and a large, give both and we keep one width with two heights.

Say how much of your trade is delivery, because that decides between an open sleeve for the counter and a closed box with a vent for the bag. Send the shop name, the phone number and any Arabic text as a file. The custom quote arrives by email within one working day, from £0.25 a sleeve, with the minimum set per job.

The free proof shows the box flat with the vents clear of the logo and the Arabic checked for joined letters. Production takes 4 to 7 working days after approval and the flat boxes reach UK mainland addresses by free tracked delivery. Grills that serve chips add fold-flat boxes for fries in the same print.