Somoplast 736 Black Bowl Base: The Premium Choice for Fresh Food Presentation

Elegant Display Meets Everyday Durability

When food presentation plays a crucial role in customer perception, choosing the right packaging becomes essential. The Somoplast 736 Black Bowl Base is designed for food retailers, cafés, takeaway businesses, delicatessens, and catering operations that want to showcase fresh foods in a professional and appealing way.

At Fresh Pack Solutions, we supply these high-quality Somoplast bowls to businesses looking for packaging that combines durability, versatility, and premium presentation. The sleek black finish provides an attractive backdrop that enhances the appearance of colourful ingredients, making salads, desserts, snacks, and prepared foods look even more appetising.

Whether used for grab-and-go retail displays, takeaway orders, or food preparation, this bowl delivers the reliability and visual appeal required by modern food service businesses.

Versatile Culinary Applications

The practical bowl design makes it suitable for a wide variety of fresh and chilled food offerings:

• Fresh Salads: Perfect for garden salads, pasta salads, grain bowls, and healthy lunch options.

• Olives & Deli Selections: Ideal for displaying and serving olives, antipasti, and speciality deli products.

• Creamy Dishes: Suitable for coleslaw, potato salad, hummus, dips, and other chilled prepared foods.

• Desserts & Sweet Treats: An excellent choice for mousses, cheesecakes, fruit salads, trifles, and layered desserts.

• Snacks & Nuts: Great for mixed nuts, snack packs, dried fruits, and confectionery items.

• Bakery & Pastry Products: Perfect for pastries, sweet treats, and grab-and-go bakery selections.

Technical Specifications

Product Performance & Display Benefits

• Professional Food Presentation: The elegant black finish creates strong visual contrast, helping ingredients and prepared foods stand out.

• Durable Construction: Manufactured from high-quality materials designed to withstand daily handling in busy food service environments.

• Versatile Food Compatibility: Suitable for a wide range of room-temperature and chilled food applications.

• Convenient Storage: Stackable design helps maximise storage space in kitchens, preparation areas, and retail environments.

• Retail Display Ready: Ideal for showcasing fresh food products while maintaining a clean and organised presentation.

• Reliable Everyday Use: Designed for food businesses that require practical, dependable packaging solutions.

Recommended Pairings for Your Service

• The Perfect Finish: Pair with compatible clear lids (sold separately) to create a secure and professional packaging solution for takeaway and retail display.

• Deli & Salad Service: Combine with our Portion Pots for dressings, dips, sauces, and condiment accompaniments.

• Grab-and-Go Convenience: Complete takeaway orders with our Disposable Wooden Cutlery for salads, desserts, and prepared foods.

• Retail Display Solutions: Use Food Labels and Date Stickers to clearly communicate ingredients, allergens, and freshness information.

• Professional Food Transport: Pair with our Paper Carrier Bags for secure customer takeaway and food delivery services.

• Complete Packaging System: Combine with our wider range of bowls, containers, and food packaging products to support multiple menu offerings.

Why Food Businesses Choose This Bowl

• Premium black finish enhances food presentation.

• Ideal for chilled and room-temperature food applications.

• Suitable for both retail display and takeaway service.

• Durable construction supports everyday commercial use.

• Stackable design improves storage efficiency.

• Trusted by cafés, restaurants, delicatessens, caterers, and food retailers.

Applicable Temperature Range

Temperature Range: Suitable for temperatures from -20°C to +120°C. Manufactured from food-grade polypropylene (PP), the bowl is suitable for chilled storage, freezer applications, and hot food service while maintaining strength and durability across a wide temperature range.

Heat Retention During Delivery

Heat Retention: The PP construction helps maintain food temperature during transport. Under normal delivery conditions, hot foods generally remain warm for approximately 30–60 minutes, depending on food type, serving size, ambient temperature, and delivery method. For enhanced heat retention, use insulated delivery bags or thermal packaging.

Key Features

• Freezer Safe

• Recyclable PP (Polypropylene) material

• Temperature Range: -20°C to +120°C

• Suitable for hot and cold food applications

• Durable and lightweight construction

• Helps keep food warm for approximately 30–60 minutes during delivery

• Ideal for takeaway, catering, meal preparation, and food storage

• Food-grade material suitable for commercial food service use

At FreshPack Solutions Ltd, we want you to be satisfied with every order. If you need to return a product, have received an incorrect item, or have a problem with your delivery, please contact us, and we will help.

This policy applies to all purchases made from FreshPack Solutions Ltd and should be read together with our Terms & Conditions and our Shipping & Delivery Policy.

Returns at a glance

In every case, please contact us before sending anything back so we can give you the correct return instructions.

Returns

Most unused and unopened products may be returned within 30 days of delivery, subject to the conditions below. To qualify for a standard return, products must:

• be unused and unopened;
• be in their original, undamaged packaging;
• be in a resalable condition;
• not have been damaged after delivery; and
• be accompanied by the order number or proof of purchase.

Because our products are food-contact packaging, opened cases cannot be accepted back for resale for hygiene reasons unless the product is faulty or was incorrectly supplied.

Products returned without prior authorisation may take longer to process and, where they do not meet the conditions above, may be returned to you at your cost.

Business customers

FreshPack Solutions primarily supplies restaurants, takeaways, cafés, bakeries, butchers, catering companies, event and stadium caterers, schools and other food-service businesses.

For purchases made wholly or mainly for business purposes, returns of correctly supplied, non-defective products are accepted at our discretion. Approved business returns must be unused, unopened, in their original packaging and suitable for resale.

Unless the product is faulty, damaged, incorrectly supplied or otherwise agreed by us, the customer is responsible for the cost of returning unwanted products. If you would like us to arrange collection, the collection charge will be confirmed with you before it is booked. [We do not charge a restocking fee on approved returns.]

Consumer customers

If you are buying as a consumer rather than for business purposes, you have statutory cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. You may cancel your order for any reason within 14 days of receiving the goods by telling us in writing (email is fine), and you then have a further 14 days to return the goods to us.

For change-of-mind cancellations you are responsible for the cost of returning the goods. We will refund the price of the goods and our standard delivery charge (but not any premium delivery option you chose) within 14 days of receiving the goods back, or of you providing proof of posting, whichever is earlier. We may reduce the refund if the goods have been handled beyond what is necessary to inspect them.

Our 30-day return policy does not reduce any statutory rights available to consumers.

Products that cannot normally be returned

Unless faulty, damaged, incorrectly supplied or otherwise required by law, we are unable to accept returns of:

• products that have been used;
• products that have been opened, where this makes them unsuitable for resale (this applies to most food-contact packaging);
• products damaged after delivery;
• products not returned in their original packaging, where this materially affects resale;
• bespoke, printed, personalised or specially manufactured products; and
• products specifically sourced or manufactured to a customer's requirements where agreed in advance.

If you are unsure whether a product can be returned, please contact us before sending it back.

Damaged, defective, incorrect or missing products

Please check your order as soon as reasonably possible after delivery. If a product is damaged in transit, defective, incorrect, or missing from your delivery, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide:

• your order number;
• the product name or SKU;
• the quantity affected;
• a description of the problem; and
• clear photographs of the product and, where relevant, the outer packaging and shipping label.

Once the issue has been verified, we will arrange an appropriate solution at no cost to you. Depending on the circumstances, this may be a replacement, a refund, or collection of the affected products. Where the problem is our responsibility, we cover all return or collection costs.

Reporting within 48 hours lets us raise a claim with the courier while it can still be investigated. Later reports will still be considered but may be harder for us to resolve.

Shortages

Larger orders may arrive in more than one parcel, sometimes on different days. If your delivery appears incomplete, please first check the number of parcels shown in your tracking information. If products are still missing, contact us within 48 hours with your order number and details of the missing items so we can investigate.

How to request a return

Before returning anything, contact our customer service team with:

• your order number;
• the product name or SKU;
• the quantity you wish to return; and
• the reason for the return.

We will review your request and, where the return is accepted, send you return instructions and the return address. Please do not send products back without contacting us first.

Return shipping

For unwanted products that were correctly supplied, you are responsible for arranging and paying for return delivery unless we agree otherwise. Products remain your responsibility until they reach us, so we recommend a tracked service and adequate packaging — we cannot refund products that arrive back damaged.

If we arrange a collection on your behalf, the collection charge will be confirmed before it is booked. This does not affect statutory consumer rights.

Refunds

When your return arrives, we will inspect it to confirm it meets the applicable conditions. Approved refunds are issued to the original payment method within 14 days of receiving the goods back, and usually sooner. Once we have issued a refund, please allow 3–5 working days for your bank or card provider to show it in your account.

Original delivery charges are refunded where the return is due to our error or where a consumer exercises statutory cancellation rights; they are not refunded on approved business returns of unwanted goods.

Exchanges and replacements

Where appropriate, we may offer a replacement instead of a refund. For example, if we supplied an incorrect or damaged product and replacement stock is available, we can dispatch the correct product straight away. Please contact us before placing a new order if you would prefer a replacement.

Order cancellations

If you need to cancel an order, contact us as quickly as possible by telephone. Because we dispatch orders placed before 12 noon on weekdays the same day, we cannot guarantee we can stop an order once warehouse processing has begun. If an order has already been dispatched, the returns procedure above will apply. Nothing in this section limits the statutory cancellation rights of consumers.

Your statutory rights

Nothing in this policy excludes, restricts or replaces any rights or remedies that cannot legally be excluded. Consumers retain their statutory rights in relation to faulty, damaged, misdescribed or otherwise non-conforming goods.

Contact us

For returns, refunds, damaged deliveries or order problems, please contact:

FreshPack Solutions Ltd
Unit 5, Sovereign Park
Laporte Way
Luton, Bedfordshire
LU4 8EL
United Kingdom

Telephone: 020 3411 2378
Email: sales@freshpackuk.co.uk

Last updated: [17 September 2026]

UK mainland orders:

All orders placed before 12:00 pm (noon) on Monday-Friday will be collected by DPD on the same day and delivered to the customers within 1-2 working days.

All orders placed on the Weekend and Bank Holidays will be collected on the next working day by DPD, then delivered within 1-2 working days

Deliveries to the Highlands, Islands, and Northern Ireland may take 2–3 working days.

Here are the delivery options and associated costs:

UK Mainland:

Orders over £100: Free

Orders under £100: £7.99

UK Offshore Islands:

Orders over £150: £39.99

Orders under £150: £32.99

Scottish Highlands:

Orders over £150: £39.99

Orders under £150: £32.99

Northern Ireland:

Orders over £150: £48.99

Orders under £150: £39.99

If you have any questions regarding shipping, feel free to contact our support team at:

📧 sales@freshpackuk.co.uk

📞 020 3411 2378