Why this food to go earns its place
The FA952 is the base of a two-compartment hot meal pack: a rectangular PP moulding split down the middle, packed 300 to a case, part of Lockhart's Food To Go range. Two compartments is a decision about the food, not the packaging. It is what you use when the plate has a wet element and a dry one — curry and rice, a main and chips, meat and a dressed side — and the dry half will be ruined by twenty minutes of sitting in the wet half. A single compartment costs less to fill and is faster on the pass; this is the one you reach for when the meal will not survive the journey mixed.
Polypropylene is the material that makes it a hot-food container rather than a cold one. It holds its shape under a fill straight off the pass, where a lighter grade would soften at the base corners and start flexing the moment someone picks the pack up one-handed. It is rated for all hot foods, dry and wet alike, and it is microwavable, so a portion can be reheated in the same container it was plated into — which is the difference between a meal that reaches a resident, a delegate or a delivery customer hot and one that gets decanted, plated again and loses ten minutes. At 300 to a case it is bought by the volume kitchen: somewhere hot food goes out in packs every service rather than as an occasional extra.
