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Optima Cup Paper & PET drinkware from Turkey

Cups for cafés, restaurants and hotels

A full hot and cold range from one manufacturer, with only two paper lid diameters covering the whole menu and your brand printed on the wall. Manufactured in Turkey and shipped worldwide.

Cups for cafés, restaurants and hotels are a shelf problem before they are a cup problem: espresso, filter, latte, iced coffee and soft drinks each want a different cup, every cup wants its own lid, and the stockroom fills with sizes that almost fit each other. We supply the hot and cold range from one plant and, more usefully, we keep the lid count low: two paper lid diameters cover the whole paper menu and every clear PET lid we make shares one diameter.

Barista handing a plain white takeaway paper cup with lid over a specialty coffee bar

Two lid diameters instead of five

On the paper side the 12 oz takes an 80 mm lid and the 14 and 16 oz share a 90 mm one, so a full menu runs on two lid lines rather than one per cup. On the clear side it is simpler still: every PET lid we make, flat or domed, is 95 mm, which means four lid items are interchangeable on the shelf. See the lids category for the full list.

Double wall where the customer holds it

Double wall is not decoration; it is the difference between a drink someone carries out and a drink someone puts down. The range runs 4, 7, 8, 14 and 16 oz — the 16 oz is the workhorse for latte and filter. Cases are 500 pieces at 8, 14 and 16 oz and 750 at 7 oz, which is a realistic order size for a single site rather than a pallet you have nowhere to keep. Single wall for the same sizes is in the hot cup category.

The cold half of the menu

Iced coffee and soft drinks run on the paper cold range at 12, 14 and 16 oz, in cases of 2,000 for the smallest and 1,000 for the larger two, and the same 80/90 mm lid logic applies. Where you want the drink to be visible, the clear PET range covers it with that single 95 mm lid diameter. Both are listed under cold cups.

Your cup, not a generic one

A branded cup leaves the building with the customer and does the advertising a window cannot. We print in flexo at production speed, so a printed cup costs close to a plain one once you are ordering by the case rather than the sleeve; see custom printed cups. Because production, printing and export sit in the same business, next year's reorder comes off the same reel and the same plates, and the documentation your own auditors ask for is already on file: certificates.

The workhorse assortment

Hotels, buffets and catering lines

Hotel breakfast coffee station with stacks of plain white paper cups and lids on a marble counter

A breakfast buffet or a conference foyer is self-service: nobody stands there fitting sleeves or hunting for the right lid. That is why hotel purchasing tends to settle on the double wall body — no sleeve line to stock — and on the two paper lid diameters, so the same cover sits on whichever cup the station runs. For banqueting volumes the case counts above translate directly into pallet space, and every quotation states cups per case, gross weight and lead time so the cost per served drink is known before the season starts.

Wholesale supply for distributors

Most of what a café needs in a week, we ship by the pallet. Our minimum is 60 cartons per item, and in the 3,000-cup formats that is 180,000 cups — six months of stock for a shop selling 300 drinks a day, but a routine reorder for the company that supplies fifty such shops. On the clear PET range the minimum is one full truck. On the board items a partial load is also possible: collect the goods from our factory with your own vehicle or a forwarder you appoint, and we can supply 1 or 2 pallets as well — the unit price rises as the pallet count drops. This part of the page is written for the middle of that chain: wholesale paper cups for packaging distributors, foodservice wholesalers, importers and chains that buy centrally and hand out locally. If you are a single café, your quickest route is a local distributor — tell us your country and we will say whether one already carries our range.

What a paper cup distributor needs from a plant is not a catalogue but a loading plan: every quotation states cups per carton, cartons per pallet, cartons per 20' HQ and 40' HQ container, gross weight and lead time, so you can price the landed cost before you commit a single euro. Lids share diameters across the cup range, so one lid line covers several cup sizes and your warehouse carries fewer references, not more. The flexo unit is part of the line, up to six colours, so cups leave printed with your label — the café reorders your name, not a generic white cup any competitor also stocks — while plain white runs off the same line for the volume side. Hot cups, cold cups, PET, lids and ice cream cups combine in one container, the quotation shows how the mix fills the box, and approved artwork stays on file with the item number so a repeat order is a quantity conversation, not a new prepress job.

Choosing cups for cafés is stock planning as much as taste: the fewer lid diameters your cups for cafés and hotels share, the shorter the weekly count.

Which lid fits which cup

Paper cups with lids from one source: the table below pairs every paper cup we make with the lid that fits its rim, so a distributor can order cups and lids in one list. Paper lids are 80 and 90 mm; all clear PET lids share the 95 mm rim of our PET cups.

All lids

Cups for cafés, restaurants and hotels: how to order

Send your menu — sizes, monthly volume, printed or plain — and we will come back with the matching cups, lids, case counts and lead time: request a quote.

Frequently asked questions

How many different lids do I need to stock for a full café menu?

On the paper side, two: 80 mm for the 12 oz and 90 mm for the 14 and 16 oz. On the clear side, one — every PET lid we make is 95 mm, flat or domed, so those items are interchangeable. Most of the lid clutter in a stockroom comes from mixing suppliers whose diameters do not agree.

Should I use single wall or double wall for hot drinks?

Double wall where the customer carries the drink and holds it for a while: latte, filter, tea to go. Single wall is fine where the cup is handed over and drunk quickly, or where it goes into a sleeve. Double wall costs more per cup but changes how the drink is held, which is why it is standard for takeaway coffee.

On the ordering side the difference shows up in the carton count: at 14 and 16 oz the single wall packs 1,000 to a carton against 500 for the double wall, and at 7 oz it is 3,000 against 750. That is why the 60-carton minimum comes to a different piece figure depending on the type. Printing is available on both: flexo up to six colours on single wall, and CMYK offset on double wall. Both are declared under HS heading 4823.69.

How many cups come in a case?

It depends on the size. Double wall is 500 pieces per case at 8, 14 and 16 oz and 750 at 7 oz; the paper cold cups are 2,000 at 12 oz and 1,000 at 14 and 16 oz. We give the case count with every quote because it decides your storage and your reorder rhythm, not just the price.

That figure also gives the piece equivalent of the minimum order: 60 cartons, that is three pallets at 20 cartons each. On a partial load collected from our factory by your own vehicle or appointed forwarder, 1 or 2 pallets are also possible — the unit price rises as the pallet count drops. A 2,000-count case comes to 120,000 cups over the minimum, a 1,000-count case to 60,000 and a 500-count case to 30,000. All of them are declared under HS heading 4823.69, and the delivery term follows the type of load: FCA is the usual arrangement — you send the vehicle, we load at the plant — with EXW on a part load, DAP available on a full truck, and FOB or CIF organised for sea shipments.

Can a single café order printed cups, or is that only for chains?

A single site can order printed cups. Flexo printing runs at production speed, so the cost gap between plain and printed closes quickly with volume; the practical question is the minimum run for your size and print, which we give you in the quote rather than publishing one figure for everyone.

Will the cup be the same when I reorder next year?

Yes, because we make it. Production, printing, invoicing and export are inside the same business, so a repeat order goes back to the same board, the same coating and the same print plates. That is the part traders cannot promise, since they buy whatever is available that month.