A new Eco-Products box keeps the sandwiches crispy until they are delivered

 
Eco-Products has teamed up with The Melt to solve a problem that chefs, restaurants and caterers had for decades: how to keep grilled cheese sandwiches hot and crispy until they’re delivered to their catering destination. 

The result has earned Eco-Products two industry honors for creating a compostable box that prevents grilled cheese sandwiches from getting soggy and stale and instead keeps them fresh, hot and crispy during their catering commute.

“These containers are a true marvel of engineering in food packaging,” said Wendell Simonson, Vice President for Eco-Products, based in Boulder, Colorado.
The Melt, a rapidly growing fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in all-natural, better-for-you, real happy comfort foods, needed an inventive catering solution to deliver its signature grilled cheese sandwiches. The company developed advanced technology to create the new “Smart Box” — the food industry’s first catering delivery system using sophisticated software to perfectly balance humidity, heat, and air circulation. 
The Melt partnered with Eco-Products to design compostable containers that would complement the new Smart Box. The Eco-Products design team created a revolutionary new container that acts as a sort of portable convection oven to keep sandwiches tasting just as good at their destination as they do in the restaurant.
“We want to ensure the best product experience for our guests in store, at the office, or for any occasion,” said Jonathan Kaplan, CEO of The Melt. “We just couldn’t find an existing catering delivery solution that could do the job, so we invented one ourselves.”
The container is 100 percent compostable – meaning it’s not only good for customers, it’s good for the environment. The innovative box earned Eco-Products two prestigious awards this month from the Foodservice Packaging Institute and QSR magazine.