Custom Cutting Boards and Kitchen Mats with Your Logo

Flexible mats or rigid boards

Flexible mats are thin polypropylene sheets that bend, which lets a cook lift the mat and pour chopped food straight into a pan. They are light, they mail flat in an envelope, and they are the least expensive way into this category. They are not a chopping surface for heavy work and they will score over time. Rigid boards, usually bamboo or composite, take real knife work and sit flat on a counter, but they are heavy to ship and cost more per piece.

Print area and food contact

Flexible mats are printed across the full surface, including full coverage full color, which is why they carry recipes, conversion charts and measurement guides as well as a logo. Bamboo and wood boards are decorated by hot stamping or foil stamping, which presses a mark into the surface rather than sitting on top of it.

Worth being direct about this: printed artwork on a mat is on the working surface, and knife cuts will go through it. If you want the branding to survive years of use, put it on a rigid board where the stamp sits on a border or the back, not in the middle of the chopping area. A beautiful full color mat will look worn within a year in a kitchen that actually cooks.

Useful information beats a big logo

This is one of the few categories where adding reference content makes the item more likely to be kept. A mat carrying a meat temperature chart, a measurement conversion table or a produce storage guide gets left out on the counter. A mat carrying only a logo goes in a drawer. If you have space, spend it on something the cook will actually consult.

Related kitchen items

Cutting boards pair with utensils and knives for kitchen gift sets, and with containers for food storage programs. For cloth rather than board surfaces see towels and cloths.