A blank and carton that provides for efficient, cost-effective, sanitary packaging
of food products such as breadsticks, chicken wings, pizza slices, and the like.
Structural arrangements include (a) a flap-free side wall with a non-folding front-wall-engagement
tab, (b) two mated blanks each having a side wall with a free rear end disposed
at an acute angle to a bottom edge of the side wall, (c) a side-wall-locking ancillary
panel for retaining a side wall of a carton in an upright position, (d) an article-retaining
structure attached to a side wall, (e) three mated blanks each having an article-retaining
structure attached to a side wall, with the blanks being matable in two mating
relationships and alignable at the ends, (f) a closed carton having an article-retaining
structure that's at least partially exposed to view, and (g) an article-retaining
structure comprising a cup-holding panel attached to a top edge of a wall and having
a hole-opening flap disposed in a downward-extending position and with an edge
of the flap disposed in close proximity to the bottom panel, thereby providing
support for the cup-holding panel.
