Franchise Times: Restaurants Drive Packaging Changes

October 31, 2023 (Franchise Times) – Kathleen Deignan - Economic ripple effects from the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain issues and inflation have made their way from restaurants to the businesses that provide eateries with packaging. In a survey on trends from the Food Packaging Institute, respondents reported increased economic pressure on the supply chain and increased regulations are pushing companies to do more with less.

Moving forward, though, leadership at packaging companies see restaurants starting to turn a corner in 2023. “What I’m quite pleased about is our customers are really back into growing their business,” said Kathleen Deignan, senior vice president of sales and marketing at the packaging company Sabert. “We have so many new projects and menus by our customers, requiring new packaging and new ways of looking at things, while the last few years it was like things were on hold.”

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