Sam Gao

Sam Gao is the founder of Diningprint, a B2B factory producing custom-printed disposable tableware — chopsticks, wooden cutlery, paper napkins, and food packaging — for restaurants, cafés, hotels, and food brands in 60+ countries.

Running production in-house, Sam has spent years on the factory floor of the disposable-tableware trade: how seasonal timber drying shapes wood quality, why MOQs and printing methods (hot-stamp vs. offset vs. digital) drive unit cost, and how FSC, FDA, and BSCI compliance actually plays out in the production process.

He writes about China supply-chain sourcing, sustainable foodservice packaging, and what really happens between a purchase order and a finished, branded product.