Office catering bags for Bay Area kitchens. Twenty lunches, one clean drop.

Lunch is a big business here

The Bay Area runs on group lunch. Tech offices, biotech labs, schools, law firms and hospitals order food for whole teams, often on a schedule: every Tuesday, every all hands, every Friday. For an independent restaurant, one steady office account can be worth more than a hundred walk ins.

Those orders are also where your name travels farthest. A catering drop sits on a break room counter for an hour while forty people walk past it. Every one of them reads the bag.

Split heavy orders on purpose

The most common catering mistake is putting too much in one bag because it seems faster. Trays of rice, a few pounds of protein, salads and a case of drinks add up quickly. Our bag carries up to 22 lb, which is a lot, but a lunch for forty is more than that.

Plan the split before the rush. The free tool at the top of this page adds up your own weights and tells you how many bags you need. A good rule: one bag per tray pair, drinks in their own bags, and sauces and utensils together in one bag so nobody has to hunt.

Label every bag so the drop is easy

Office orders often come with names: Priya, no onions. Marcus, vegan. A printed bag with a clean space on it makes this simple. Write the name or team on the sticker, seal it across the top, and the person at the front desk can hand each bag out without opening anything.

• One person or one team per bag: for individual lunches, the bag is the label.
• Hot trays together, cold food apart: salads and drinks ride in their own bag so they stay cold.
• Utensils, napkins and sauces in the last bag: set it on top so it is easy to find.
• Seal every bag: each full box comes with 100 food tamper-evident stickers.

The bag your client sees at every meeting

Office managers choose who caters next time, and they decide fast. A row of plain bags looks like any other delivery. A row of bags with your logo looks like a business that plans ahead. Add your website and a line like "catering for teams" and the bag pitches your next contract for you.

We print your logo up to 12 × 14 in on the front, full bleed, in any colors. Setup is $0. Many printers charge $150+ before a single bag is made.

The numbers on a catering account

Catering uses a lot of bags at once, so the bundle is usually the right fit. Two boxes on Subscribe and Save are $152 for 300 bags, which is 50.7¢ a bag. A single box is $85 for 150 bags. Shipping is free and boxes arrive 3 to 4 days after they ship.

If your kitchen also runs delivery apps, read the delivery kitchen bag guide. Proofs, prices and sizes for every shop are on the Bay Area printed takeout bags home page, and the bag size page has the full specs.