Custom Labeled Water for Caterers

DrinkMore Custom Water produces custom labeled water for caterers, putting your branding on bottles or printing it directly onto aluminum cans, filled with award-winning purified water. Bottles start at six cases and turn in about two weeks, fast enough to quote against a booked event. Cans start at 18 cases, take about five weeks, and travel and stack better for drop-off service.

Where Branded Water Earns Its Keep in Catering

Drop-off catering has a specific problem: you are not in the room. The food arrives, someone else sets it out, and your name is on an invoice rather than the table. Branded packaging is how you get back into the room:

• Prepackaged drop-off events, where branded cans are one of the few surfaces you control
• Boxed lunches and individual meal service
• Buffet lines and beverage stations
• Client-branded events, where the can carries your client’s logo instead of yours
• Corporate accounts with recurring weekly or monthly service
• Staff and crew hydration at large events

Bottles or Cans: Sizes, Minimums, and Turnaround

Bottles start at six cases and turn in about two weeks, which is fast enough to quote against an event already booked. Cans fit a boxed lunch better and stack tighter for transport.

Bottles are the faster and lower-commitment option — six cases gets you started and most orders turn in about two weeks. Cans take about five weeks because each design is printed directly onto the aluminum, and the result is a seamless, full-wrap look with no label edge. Either way, pricing improves as order size increases, so it is worth asking what the next tier looks like before you settle on a quantity. Timelines run from artwork approval and payment. Delivery is included inside our DC-area zone, and we ship anywhere in the continental United States through our freight partners.

Artwork needs to arrive print-ready as vector EPS or high-resolution PDF. We provide the dieline and print spec sheet, and our in-house art team can build a design from scratch if you do not have one.

Root & Stem

We produce all of Root & Stem’s prepackaged drop-off events in 12 oz cans. The reason they run cans is worth stating plainly, because it is the argument for this entire category.

Drop-off catering strips away most of the ways a caterer shows quality. There is no service staff, no plating, no presence in the room. What is left is the packaging. A printed can lets Root & Stem put their branding on genuinely nice packaging in a setting where they would otherwise have no way to show it at all.

We also produce for Mellon Auditorium with venue-specific branding, which is the same idea from the venue side rather than the caterer side.

Common Questions

Can we order with our client’s logo instead of ours?

Yes, and many caterers do exactly that for large corporate accounts. Each distinct design is its own run with its own setup charge and minimum, so client-branded cans make sense for recurring accounts or large single events rather than one-off jobs.

How fast can you turn artwork around?

Digital mockups come back free within two business days. Production runs five weeks from the day artwork is approved and payment clears. If you are quoting a client an event date, work backward from that five weeks and leave room for design revisions on the front end.

Do you offer better pricing on standing orders?

Pricing steps down by order size rather than by contract — it improves at 21 cases and again at higher volumes. Caterers with steady volume usually order at a larger tier and draw it down over months. Reorders of an existing design also skip the setup charge.

Can you deliver directly to an event site?

We deliver inside our DC-area zone and ship nationwide by freight. Event-site delivery is worth planning early — dock access and event timing are much easier to work around when they are part of the schedule than when they come up the week of.

Which format travels better for drop-off?

Cans stack tighter and chill faster, which helps when a vehicle is loaded to capacity. Bottles reseal, which matters for a boxed lunch a guest may not finish in one sitting, and they cost less per unit. Root & Stem run cans; plenty of caterers run bottles for the same reason they run them everywhere else — the price and the two-week turnaround.

Ready to Design Your Can?

Send us your logo and we will return a free digital mockup within two business days. If you are quoting a client against a booked date, tell us the date and we will confirm what is achievable before you commit.

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