Food Labels and Kitchen Sign Printing

A day in a small kitchen

Seven in the morning. The chef is portioning soup into tubs, the pot wash is steaming, and someone is dragging the A-frame out the front door. By lunchtime there is a queue, a customer asking whether the brownie has nuts in it, and a pile of hand towels by the sink. Food labels and kitchen sign printing covers every one of those moments, and nothing on this page is there for show.

Labels for the fridge and the counter

Food Rotation Labels are write-on labels for dating prepared food and stock, so the oldest gets used first. They come in 51 x 51 mm or 62 x 33 mm. Allergen Labels show which of the 14 major allergens a product contains, in 62 x 33 mm or 51 x 51 mm, handy for the grab-and-go shelf or the market stall.

Which label material?

• Gloss paper: dry shelves and packaging indoors.
• Matt paper: takes a pen, so staff can write dates and initials.
• Waterproof white polypropylene with a matt laminate: fridges, freezers, damp stores and anything that gets wiped down.

A label helps staff and customers see what's what. It sits alongside your own food safety records and never replaces them.

Signs for the kitchen and the customer loo

The sign side of food labels and kitchen sign printing starts in the prep area. Pick from Caution This Machine Runs Hot, Convector Oven Switch Off Heater, the Potato Chipping Machine Sign, Vegetable Paring Machine and Dangerous Machine Procedure. These come in A4 (210 × 297 mm), A3 (297 × 420 mm), A2 (420 × 594 mm) and A1 (594 × 841 mm).

For the washrooms, there are Wash Your Hands Please, Now Wash Your Hands Please, Please Turn Off the Taps, Please Leave This Lavatory Clean for the Next User and Do Not Flush Sanitary Products signs in A4, A3 or A2. Toilet door signs, including accessible, baby changing and combined male, female and accessible designs, come in 150 × 150 mm, 200 × 200 mm and 297 × 297 mm.

All of them come on 3mm Foamex for most indoor walls, 3mm Dibond aluminium composite where things get knocked or steamy, or self-adhesive vinyl to stick straight on a smooth tiled wall or door.

Getting people through the door

An A-frame on the pavement tells passers-by you're open before they even reach the window, so it earns a place in any food labels and kitchen sign printing order. The A-Frame Pavement Signs come in A2 or A1. Already have a frame? Order A-Frame Replacement Posters when the menu changes, or the Frame Only if yours finally gave up in a gale. Forecourt Pavement Signs take A1 or A0 PVC banner graphics for a bigger roadside presence.

Artwork for food labels and kitchen sign printing

Upload a print-ready file, make one in the free online designer, or use our paid artwork service. A real person checks every uploaded file for free. Allergen wording is your call, so check it twice against your recipes before ordering. The artwork guidelines cover file set-up. Cards, menus, flyers and invoice books are in business stationery.

Timing and delivery for food labels and kitchen sign printing

Timings vary by product. On this page, standard production runs from 3 to 10 working days and express from 2, and each product page shows its own production days. All food labels and kitchen sign printing is made to order and dispatched from the UK.

UK mainland delivery is £7.95, free on orders of £100 or more after discounts (artwork fees excluded). Mainland Highlands add £10. Northern Ireland, the Scottish islands, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight are quoted. See the delivery page, or get a quote if you are kitting out a new site and want food labels and kitchen sign printing in one go.