Custom paper bags for Bay Area restaurants, one box at a time. No pallet required.

The minimum order problem nobody talks about

Ask most bag printers for a quote and the first line is the minimum. Often it's thousands of bags, plus a plate or setup charge, plus freight. For a taco stall at a weekend market or a ghost kitchen that launched last month, that's a scary check to write for something that just carries food.

Space is the other problem. Bay Area rent is brutal. A shared commissary kitchen in SoMa or a tiny storefront on Telegraph Avenue doesn't have a spare corner for cartons of bags stacked to the ceiling.

So most small operators skip printed bags and use plain ones. Their food goes out the door with no name on it, and nobody on the train or at the office knows where that great lunch came from.

Our minimum is one box

Here's the deal. The smallest regular order is one box. On a subscription that box is $85 for 150 bags: you pay for 100 and get 50 free, which works out to 56.7¢ a bag. A one time box is $94 for 120 bags, about 78.3¢ each.

Your logo is printed free on the front. The setup fee is $0, where other shops charge $150+. Every box also brings 100 food tamper-evident stickers, and shipping is free, arriving in 3 to 4 days.

One box. Your logo. No setup fee. That's the whole minimum.

Not sure yet? Start with the Discovery Box

If even one box feels like too much, the Kraft Discovery Box is 50 printed bags plus 50 food tamper-evident stickers for $28, down from $42. It exists so you can see your logo on the actual paper, pack your own containers and hand a few bags to customers before you commit.

Fifty bags is about a weekend at a busy market stall, or a soft opening week at a new counter. Long enough to know if you love it.

Who orders small in the Bay Area

• Pop-ups. Chefs who cook out of a bar kitchen or a brewery patio once or twice a week. You want a bag with your name on it, but you don't want two hundred left over if the pop-up moves.
• New openings. A first storefront in the Outer Sunset, Temescal or downtown San Jose. Cash is tight and every dollar has a job. One printed box makes you look established from day one.
• Farmers market stalls. Ferry Plaza on Saturday, a neighborhood market on Sunday. Shoppers carry your bag through the whole market, which turns it into a walking sign.
• Ghost kitchens. No dining room, no sign on the street. The bag is the only branding a delivery customer ever sees, so it has to carry your name.

Why a small run still makes money

Think about what a printed bag does. It goes home with a customer, sits on their counter, ends up in their car or their office, and gets seen by people who never heard of you. A plain bag does none of that.

At 56.7¢ a bag on the subscription box, one bag costs less than most of the sauces you hand out for free. If one coworker in a Mission Bay office sees your bag at lunch and orders from you next week, the whole box has paid for itself.

Want to run your own numbers? The cost page breaks down price per order, and the bag math tool near the top of this page shows how long one box lasts at your volume.

Same bag as the big orders

Small order doesn't mean small bag. Every box holds the same heavy duty kraft bag: 12″ × 7″ × 14″, 110 GSM paper, 3.5″ gussets, carrying 22 lb. Check the full bag size and specs if you need to know it'll fit your containers.

When the stall turns into a storefront and you need more, the bundle is 2 boxes: $152 for 300 bags on subscription, about 50.7¢ each. You grow into it when you're ready, not before.

How ordering works

Upload your logo, pick brown kraft or bright white, and see it on the bag before you pay. We print it, pack it and ship it free. That's it. No sales call, no quote form, no waiting a week for a reply.

For more about how printed kraft bags work for Bay Area restaurants, start on the home page.