Custom Portion & Sauce Cups
Small-format cups for sauces, dips, and condiments
- FREE Standard Shipping Within the Contiguous U.S.
- Sizes from 1 oz to 4 oz for sauces, dips, and samples
- Clear and paper formats for wet or dry portions
- Matched lids, with printed lid options
- High-count runs for high-volume kitchens
- Free digital mockup before production
Build your custom portion & sauce cups
Print placement
Artwork
Optional — not required to order.No artwork needed today. Send your enquiry and our team will contact you to collect your design.
How Your Custom Order Works
Step 1: Choose Your Cups
Select your cup size, quantity, lids, and printing preferences.
Step 2: Review Your Order
Check your configuration and pricing or request a custom quote.
Step 3: Approve Your Artwork
Review your digital mockup before production begins.
Step 4: Production & Delivery
Production begins after the required approvals and payment arrangements are complete.
Your order
10,000 units · 1 oz
- Cups subtotal
- $133.65
- Matching lids
- Not included
- Standard shipping
- FREE
Product total before tax
$133.65
Per cup
$0.0134
FREE Standard ShippingIncluded for the contiguous United States. Express, Alaska, Hawaii and special freight are quoted separately. Sales tax is calculated on the checkout page.
Production & delivery
- Production
- 10–15 business days
- Shipping
- 3–4 weeks after dispatch
Estimates after final artwork approval, not guaranteed dates.
Free digital mockup first
Send your logo or finished artwork and we prepare a mockup before anything is manufactured.
Estimated production: 10–15 business days after final artwork and order approval.
Estimated standard shipping: typically 3–4 weeks after dispatch.
Standard shipping is included in the price for eligible orders shipped within the contiguous United States. Express, Alaska, Hawaii and special freight are quoted separately.
Sales tax is calculated on the checkout page from your delivery address.
We review your files, send a free digital mockup, and begin production only after you approve the design and the quote.
How artwork approval works →- Matching lids confirmed for your selected cup specifications
- One team for cups, lids, artwork, and repeat orders
- Standard shipping included for eligible contiguous U.S. orders
At a glance
- Sizes
- 1 oz to 4 oz, other sizes by request
- Materials
- Clear, paper, coated paper, plant fiber
- Lids
- Matched set, printed lid option
- Ordering
- Quoted across volume tiers
About Custom Portion & Sauce Cups
A portion cup is a small container (typically 1 to 4 ounces) used to send a sauce, dip, or condiment with an order. They are also used for samples, toppings, dressings on the side, and in some operations for pre-portioned ingredients on a prep line.
Because they are small and bought in large quantities, portion cups are easy to treat as a commodity. But they are also extremely high-touch: a customer may handle two or three with a single order, and a branded cup on a takeout tray is a small, repeated brand impression that costs very little per unit.
For businesses already printing larger packaging, adding printed portion cups completes the set: the bag, the container, the napkin, and the sauce cup all carrying the same mark.
Matching Capacity to the Job
Match the cup to what goes in it and who handles it.
| Capacity | What It Typically Holds | Order This One When |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | Samples, dressings, single-serve condiments | You hand out tasters, or you send a small dressing on the side |
| 2 oz | Standard sauce and dip portion | This is the everyday condiment cup: the most common size by volume |
| 3 oz | Larger dips, toppings, sides | Your dips are thick, or your customers take a generous portion |
| 4 oz | Sides, larger condiment portions | You send sides this way, or the cup doubles as a small portion container |
| Other sizes | Portion formats through larger condiment sizes | Your portion sits between these: tell us the fill and we confirm |
Common market capacities are listed across the portion and condiment range. Any capacity outside this range can be requested rather than being a catalogue limit.
Lids are matched to the cup, and a printed lid is the largest branding surface on a closed portion cup. Tell us if the cup needs to survive a bagged delivery, because that changes how the lid has to seat.
Portion and Sauce Cup Size Guide
Portion cups are chosen by how much goes in, but the more useful question is what the cup is for. A sauce sent alongside an order, a dip for a sharing platter, a sample handed out at a counter, and a pre-portioned ingredient on a prep line are four different jobs, and they do not all want the same cup.
The two things that change the answer are the fill and the use. Thickness matters more than volume: a thin dressing moves differently in a small cup than a thick dip does, and a dry sample behaves differently again. Use matters too, because a cup sent with takeout orders is being handled by the customer, while one used on a prep line is being handled by your staff against portion targets.
The capacities below are the ones most often ordered. Any size outside them can be requested if your portion falls between or beyond these, and the configurator takes any figure you enter.
How the Fill Decides the Cup
Portion cups look interchangeable, and they mostly are, with one exception worth planning around: the fill. A thin dressing and a thick dip behave differently in the same cup, and the difference shows up in ways customers notice.
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A thin sauce moves freely, so it finds the edge of the lid and works against the seal. In a bagged delivery order that is where leaks come from. A thick dip holds its own shape and barely moves, so it is far more forgiving. Dry items such as a sample of nuts or spice sit outside the question entirely.
There is also the matter of how the cup is opened. A portion cup is usually peeled by hand, and a thinner sauce on a firmly seated lid is the combination most likely to flick. If your operation sends a lot of thin sauce, tell us and we will match the cup and lid against that rather than against a generic portion specification.
Matching the Cup to the Fill
Thin sauces and dressings
The fill moves and works against the seal, which matters most in bagged and delivered orders. Relatively the least forgiving combination.
Thick dips and condiments
The fill holds its shape and does not travel within the cup. The most forgiving combination, and the one most orders fall into.
Dry portions and samples
No seal problem at all. The choice is driven by capacity and by whether the customer needs to see the contents.
Pre-portioned on a prep line
Portion accuracy matters more than the fill here. Tell us your target portion and we match the cup to that volume rather than to a menu size.
Which Size Fits Which Portion
Size is the first decision on a portion cup and the one buyers most often get wrong in the direction of too small. A cup that is slightly larger than the portion costs very little more per unit, while a cup that is slightly too small either spills or forces staff to under-fill, which shows on the plate.
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The table below maps each size to the portions it normally carries. It is a starting point rather than a rule: what actually decides the size is the portion your kitchen scoops, so tell us what goes in the cup and we will confirm the fit against it.
| Size | What it normally carries | Where it is used | Lid needed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | Dressings, single-serve condiments, tasters | Plated service, sample trays, dressing on the side | Usually, to travel |
| 2 oz | The standard sauce or dip portion | Takeout dips, condiment stations, sauce with a meal | Yes, for takeout and delivery |
| 3 oz | Larger dips, toppings, small sides | Loaded fries, nacho toppings, slaw and small sides | Yes, for takeout and delivery |
| 4 oz | Sides, larger condiment portions, thick sauces | Meal sides, large dips, thick sauces and pastes | Yes, for takeout and delivery |
| Other sizes | Tell us the portion you scoop | Confirmed with your quote | Confirmed with quote |
Clear, Paper, Coated or Plant Fiber
Material is the second decision, and it is decided by what is going in the cup rather than by cost. A clear cup lets the customer see the sauce, which is why it is the standard for dips and dressings. Paper gives you an unbroken printed surface instead. Coated paper is the option for sauces that are oily or thin enough to soak through an uncoated wall. Plant fiber is available where it suits your product, and we confirm availability rather than assuming it.
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The configurator carries all four. If you are filling more than one sauce across your menu, it is worth telling us the full list in your project notes, because the material can be chosen to cover all of them rather than the easiest one.
We do not state compostability, heat-resistance or food-contact certifications on this page. Those depend on the exact product specified, so they are confirmed with your quote against the material you select rather than claimed in advance.
- Clear: shows the sauce. The standard for dips and dressings.
- Paper: an unbroken printed surface, suited to dry portions and samples.
- Coated paper: for oily or thin sauces that would soak an uncoated wall.
- Plant fiber: available where it suits your product, confirmed with your quote.
Branding Small Formats
A portion cup is too small for elaborate artwork, and that is fine: at this scale, restraint reads as confidence. The treatments that work are the simple ones.
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- A single logo: clean and legible at 1 to 2 inches.
- A repeated mark: a small logo pattern across the lid.
- Printed lids: the largest visible surface on a closed portion cup, and the one the customer sees first because it faces up on a tray.
- Brand color matching: color-matched cups with no logo at all.
Portion Cups or Sauce Bottles
The nearest alternative to a portion cup is a sauce bottle, and the two are chosen for different jobs rather than one being better. A portion cup is single-serve: one sauce, one serving, opened and used immediately. A bottle is multi-serve: it sits on a table or a shelf, is opened repeatedly, and is usually bought because the sauce itself is the product being sold.
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If you are sending a sauce alongside a dish you have cooked, the portion cup is the format. If the sauce is the thing the customer is buying, packed for retail, with a label carrying ingredients and a closure that reseals, a bottle is the format. Some businesses use both, sending retail bottles to the shelf and portion cups with every takeout order.
- Portion cup: single serving, travels with food, opened once and discarded.
- Sauce bottle: multiple servings, reseals, carries a retail label.
- Portion cup: matched lids and printed lid faces.
- Sauce bottle: closures and label space on the body.
Ordering at Volume
Portion cups are bought in high counts, so the per-unit difference between a plain cup and a printed one is small in absolute terms: which is the argument for printing them. Tell us your annual or quarterly usage in your project notes and we will quote against that volume rather than a one-off run.
How Pricing Works
Custom packaging is quoted per project rather than sold at a list price, because the cost depends on the material, the size, how much print coverage your artwork uses, any additional features, and the quantity you run.
Cost per unit falls as the run grows, so we quote across volume tiers rather than one flat rate. Send your configuration and a specialist returns pricing for that exact combination, showing what the figure covers: product, printing, accessories, freight, and artwork setup.
Minimum Order Quantity
Minimums shift with the cup or lid style, the material, and the print setup your artwork needs, so the number is confirmed on your quote. A run that reuses an existing plate or die can start lower than one that cannot.
Tell us your target quantity in the configurator and we will confirm the actual minimum for your build.
Artwork Requirements
For the cleanest print result, supply vector artwork. Vector files scale to any size without losing edge quality, which matters when the same logo prints across a range of products in your line.
- Preferred: AI, EPS, SVG, or PDF, vector formats.
- Acceptable: PNG or JPG at high resolution.
- If you only have your logo, we can prepare the packaging layout for you.
- A color reference (hex code, Pantone number, or a physical sample) helps us match accurately.
Production & Delivery
Nothing here is pulled from a shelf. Your cups and lids are manufactured after you approve the design and pricing. The sequence is: configure your specifications, receive a free digital mockup, approve the design and pricing, manufacturing begins, then the completed order is delivered nationwide.
Lead time is quoted against your specific order, because it moves with the quantity and the current manufacturing load. Free standard shipping is included within the contiguous 48 states on eligible orders; express, Alaska, Hawaii, the U.S. territories and international freight are quoted with your order.
Reordering
Reordering is simpler than ordering, because your specifications and approved artwork stay on file against your order. Confirm the previous configuration and quantity with a specialist and reference your project. There is no need to rebuild the specification.
Who Orders Custom Portion & Sauce Cups?
These are the businesses that most often order this packaging. We have it produced to your specifications regardless of your size.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions specific to Custom Portion & Sauce Cups, answered below. A handful of questions apply to every product we supply, and those live on the main FAQ page so they stay in one place.
Ordering, minimums, artwork and shippingWhat sizes of portion cups are available?+
Can I print such a small cup?+
Should I choose clear or paper portion cups?+
Are lids a separate order, or do they ship with the cups?+
Are these suitable for hot sauces and oily sauces?+
What is the minimum order for portion & sauce cups?+
How much do custom portion cups cost?+
Do portion & sauce cups ship nationwide?+
Can I order portion cups with my other packaging?+
Can the portion cup and the lid be printed differently?+
What logo file works best on portion & sauce cups?+
Production Time and Shipping Time Are Different
Production time is the time required to manufacture your packaging. Transit time is the time required to transport it to you. These are separate: a production window is not a delivery date, and every project's timeline is confirmed with your final quote.
Production
Estimated Production Time: 10–15 Business Days
Production begins after final artwork and order approval. Some orders may finish sooner; complex or high-volume orders may take longer.
Production times may vary by product, quantity, and customization.
Standard shipping
Estimated standard shipping time: Typically 3–4 weeks after dispatch.
Transit times vary by product, destination, and shipping conditions.
Express
Best when speed matters most. Faster transportation may be available depending on the product, quantity, manufacturing location, shipment size, destination and carrier availability. Express transportation can cost significantly more than standard, and an exact transit time is confirmed with your freight quote.
Standard
Included within the contiguous 48 states on eligible orders. Standard freight is generally the more economical option when your schedule allows additional flexibility. Actual transit time is confirmed with your quote, and standard shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, the U.S. territories and international destinations is charged separately.
Large-volume freight
Larger orders do not move as ordinary parcel shipments. They travel by freight instead, and the right method depends on the order size, the destination and what the shipment requires. YaSeen selects the method for your project and quotes it accordingly.
Not sure
If you are unsure, our team will recommend the option that best fits your deadline, quantity and destination once your project has been reviewed.
Free standard shipping is included within the contiguous 48 states on eligible orders. Express, Alaska, Hawaii, the U.S. territories and international freight are confirmed with your final quote. Shipping & delivery details
See Your Packaging Before Production
A free digital mockup is available after you submit your artwork, so you can review your branding on the selected packaging configuration before production. A custom physical sample is optional and separate, and is available after artwork approval.
Free Digital Mockup
Review your artwork on the packaging configuration you selected before anything is manufactured.
- Free, and available once your artwork is submitted
- Your artwork placed on the packaging configuration you selected
- No production order is needed first
- Reviewed with you before anything is manufactured
Optional Custom Physical Sample
Optional, and only after you have approved the artwork. A sample is then manufactured from your approved design so you can evaluate the actual packaging before the production order.
- Artwork is approved before the sample is made, so the sample matches what you would actually run
- Approximately 2 to 3 weeks after artwork approval
- Approximately $150 to $250 depending on the product and configuration
- Credited toward your production order if you go ahead
The mockup is digital and free, and is prepared from the artwork you submit. The physical sample is the paid, optional step described above. How samples fit into an order
What Happens After You Submit
Submitting a project starts a review, not a charge. Here is the whole process from your submission to your delivery.
- 1
Project received
We receive your specifications, quantity, artwork and delivery information.
- 2
Project review
Our team reviews the packaging requirements and verifies production and delivery details.
- 3
Final quote
You receive confirmed pricing, applicable freight, payment terms and an estimated timeline.
- 4
Secure payment
If you choose to proceed, you receive approved payment instructions or a secure invoice.
- 5
Digital proof
Your artwork is prepared and reviewed for the packaging you selected.
- 6
Your approval
You approve the final digital proof, or request corrections.
- 7
Production
Production begins only after payment requirements are satisfied and final artwork is approved.
- 8
Shipping
Your completed packaging ships using the delivery method agreed on your quote.
- 9
Delivery
Your packaging arrives according to the confirmed project arrangements.
- 10
Reorder
Your approved specifications and artwork can be referenced to make future orders easier.
Why Businesses Order From YaSeen Packaging
Free Digital Mockups
Submit your artwork and review how your branding looks on the selected packaging configuration before production begins.
Direct Manufacturer Relationships
We work directly with packaging manufacturers to provide custom packaging built around your brand and order requirements.
Packaging Built Around Your Brand
Choose the size, configuration and printing that fit your product instead of building your brand around one stock option.
Multiple Packaging Products, One Partner
Build a coordinated packaging program across cups, bags, pouches, foodservice packaging, bottles and jars.
Artwork-to-Production Support
Send finished artwork, a logo or the brand assets you have. We help prepare the packaging layout and move the approved project toward production.
Minneapolis-Based, Nationwide Service
Based in Minneapolis and serving businesses nationwide, with a physical showroom and office for customers who want to meet us locally.
Packaging Guides
Planning your order? These guides answer the questions that come up most often.
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Ready to Put Your Brand on Custom Portion & Sauce Cups?
Configure your packaging and we'll prepare a free digital mockup and custom pricing for your order.