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Foodservice Packaging Institute

For the fifth year, QSR magazine and the Foodservice Packaging Institute teamed up to present the QSR/FPI Foodservice Packaging Awards, an annual competition that honors excellence in, you guessed it, foodservice packaging.

Once again, response was terrific, which both QSR and FPI love to see. More important, though, the high level of participation shows great recognition within the industry for the importance of packaging. After all, without packaging, food and drink wouldn’t make it across the counter, into a car, and/or onto the consumer’s table.

Each year we are also reminded that the delivery of food and drink is only a utilitarian view. Packaging is also a way to deliver your brand, help the environment, make a parent’s day easier, improve food safety and hygiene, and all other manner of important functions.

Thanks to all the entrants for 2007. We hope to see you—and many others—in 2008.

2007 Foodservice
Package of the Year

The Foodservice Package of the Year is chosen by judges from among all first-place winners in the individual categories. When the judges considered the seven contenders for top honors in this year’s competition, there was quick and unanimous agreement that the line of packaging from Citrine New World Bistro stood out as worthy of special recognition.

We’ve said in the past that these annual awards pay tribute to a critical but sometimes overlooked element of the foodservice business, but in Citrine’s case, it’s obviously an element that is receiving its due.

Congratulations on a job well done.