Dip & Squeeze

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Dip & Squeeze
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Product type Ketchup
Owner Kraft Heinz
Produced by Heinz
Introduced2011;13 years ago (2011)

Dip & Squeeze is the brand name of a type of packaging for tomato ketchup used by Heinz Tomato Ketchup. The product was announced in 2010 and rolled out to consumers at U.S. fast food restaurants in March 2011. [1] Later in 2011 it was sold directly to retail consumers at Target and Wal-Mart. [2]

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The packaging won the National Restaurant Association Food and Beverage Product Innovations Award in 2011. [3] It won the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation silver award in 2011. [4] [5]

A laser-scored tip and plastic seal over a thermoformed tub allow a consumer to either pinch off the top and squeeze out the contents, or to rip off the seal and dip into the ketchup. [5] [6]

It was designed to be easier to use one-handed inside a car. Product developers watched consumers operate the traditional ketchup packet through one-way mirrors to evaluate new ketchup packaging designs. Heinz's vice president in charge of the packaging division himself bought a used minivan and tested the company's products delivered at fast food drive-up windows. [7] [8]

A Chick-Fil-A executive said that some consumers at the chain were hoarding the packets after they were introduced. [7]

Lawsuits

The packaging was the subject of a patent lawsuit brought by David Wawrzynski, a Detroit businessperson who claimed to have shown a similar prototype to Heinz executives in 2008. [9] A 2012 judgment in favor of Heinz was vacated in 2014, [10] and a jury finally found that Heinz did not owe Wawrzynski damages in April 2015. [11]

Another suit was filed by a Chicago inventor, Scott White, in 2012. [12] [13]

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