World Cup Matchday Essentials for Pubs and Bars

With both Scotland and England winning their opening games at World Cup 2026, anticipation is already building across the country. For pubs and bars, that means bigger crowds, busier bars and more pressure on staff to serve quickly and safely.

Cater For You has strong stocks of essential matchday products to help venues maximise bar revenue, keep customers safe and help bar teams serve more drinks with less delay.

The Packed Bar Challenges

The World Cup should mean busier pubs, fuller beer gardens and packed bars, but keeping up with demand can be a real challenge. Long queues, glass collections, washing cycles and breakages can all slow service down. That is where our range of plastic pint glasses, half pint glasses and plastic pitchers can help.

We stock the unbreakable polycarbonate plastic pint glasses and the disposable plastic pint glasses and recommend the latter for speed and convenience at this busy time. For busy matchdays, disposable plastic pint glasses offer several advantages over traditional glassware:

No washing and re-using of glassware, nothing more frustrating for your bar team than waiting for the pint glasses to finish their washing cycle and still warm for customer when serving pints
With any goals comes celebrations, the chances of glasses being thrown or knocked over by ‘limbs’ at this point is huge, plastic glasses means safety will be improved for your patrons with no broken glass landing on them or the floor
If glasses are thrown in the ‘absolute scenes’ goal celebrations then they are much much safer than traditional glass if they unfortunately land on someone
If you have temporary overspill areas in your gardens or in the street for drinking you absolutely don’t want to be trying to clear up broken glass from grassy surfaces or normally public areas
Bar staff not having to search for glasses behind the bar and just pulling from a stack means more drinks served and more profit
We supply two pint glasses and pitchers as well as traditional half and one pint plastic glasses meaning more can be given to the customer, less time between pouring and again more revenue

In addition to these benefits for revenue, the plastic glasses often stack much more compactly meaning less space is required for all the extra capacity. The best thing of all, the glasses are made from either PET for doorstep recycling or Polypropylene which is widely recycled and paper cups for recycling or composting. The time taken to clear up patron’s tables is also quicker as more glasses can be stacked in one go.

Plastic pitchers and jugs available in either 2 pints or 4 pints are particularly useful around kick-off and half time. Popular drinks can be prepared in advance, helping your team stay ahead of the rush and serve more customers during peak trading periods.

Don’t Forget the Bar Snacks

With the games being played late on into the night with the USA being so far behind us, rolling out bar snacks is a great idea to keep your customers from getting hungry, absorb some alcohol and generate more revenue. We have a great range of disposable trays, burger boxes, bagasse platters that won’t mean damaged crockery and again quick to clear up for recycling or commercial composting. Simple ideas for your kitchen to cater for your clients includes:

Loaded Fries
Nachos
Burgers
Wings
Pizza Slices

Below is a small selection of suitable bar snack packaging, please view our full ranges in our food packaging section.

T00300.
Square Black Burger Trays
Price range: £0.06 through £21.99
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New
PB7W.
7 inch White Pizza Boxes
Price range: £0.20 through £12.74
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HFSD001.
Standard Kraft Clam Shell Burger Box 4oz – Box of 520 | Hot Deal
Price range: £0.13 through £39.99
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4034WH.
40cm 3 Ply Premium White Paper Napkin / Serviette
Price range: £0.05 through £26.99
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3324RD.
32cm 2 Ply Red Paper Napkins / Serviettes
Price range: £0.05 through £36.02
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317W.
Wooden Bamboo Paddle Skewer 90mm
Price range: £0.05 through £13.16
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TRT014BR.
Kraft Open Baguette / Hotdog Food Tray – 245 x 60 x 59mm
Price range: £0.07 through £28.99
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TRT008.
Square Kraft Brown Burger Tray
Price range: £0.09 through £36.21
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D40401.
Black Cardboard Burger Boxes
Price range: £0.20 through £52.91
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D40115.
Black Card Meal Tray
Price range: £0.10 through £37.65
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D40013.
Square Black Burger Tray
Price range: £0.09 through £38.75
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CKFTM.
Medium Kraft Food Tray – 160 x 115 x 40mm
Price range: £0.05 through £35.13
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New
2320014.
White Cardboard Crepe Cone
Price range: £0.08 through £27.83
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LEMONFRESH.
Lemon Fresh Face & Hand Wet Wipes
Price range: £0.06 through £12.62
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MANAGER’S SPECIAL

Recycling and Eco Friendly

As mentioned above, we have a huge range of products that are widely recycled or compostable in your commercial waste facilities. Plastic glasses are available as PET or PP (Polypropylene) and food trays in food cardboard or bagasse – the choice is yours.

Be Ready – Great Stocks – Fast Delivery

With England and Scotland supporters are expected to pack pubs and bars throughout the tournament, now is the ideal time to ensure you have sufficient stock of plastic glasses, pitchers, food packaging and serving essentials before the next big match. We have bought in extra stocks as we always do for major events, but buy in early just in case, especially if they go deep into the tournament. For local venues to us in High Wycombe, same day click and collect is the fastest way to re-stock, but we also offer next working day across the United Kingdom and for the England Saturday game, Saturday deliveries – but these cost more so best to order before that game!

If you want any more information on our range of plastic pint glasses, bar snack packaging or delivery schedules, please don’t hesitate to contact us.