Printed takeout bags for Burlingame restaurants.

Burlingame Avenue is a strolling street

The city itself says it best. Downtown Burlingame Avenue, from California Drive up to El Camino Real, is the liveliest part of town, with hundreds of stores and restaurants and side streets worth wandering between Howard and Chapin.

People here are not rushing to a car. They are walking slowly, looking in windows, deciding what to do next. When one of them carries your bag past a café table, everybody at that table sees it.

That's why the test above matters. A thin, fancy script can look great on a menu and vanish on a bag ten steps away. Bold letters keep working at a distance.

Learning how printed bags work? Our Bay Area logo takeout bags home page has the whole story. This page is just Burlingame.

Broadway runs on regulars

Up the road, Broadway feels different. The city calls it a quieter street that feels like the Fifties, with all kinds of restaurants and mom and pop shops.

Places like this live on the same families coming back week after week. A printed bag keeps your name on their kitchen counter between visits. When a kid asks where dinner came from, the answer is printed right there.

Hotel Row orders travel far

Down by the bay, Burlingame has a strip of big hotels, and the city counts dozens more restaurants along Bayshore and Airport Boulevards. The visitors bureau points out the whole city sits just minutes from SFO.

Travelers order food to their room, carry it through a lobby and ride an elevator with strangers. Some fly home the next day and remember almost nothing. A bag with a clear name gives them one thing to remember: you.

Our bag is 12″ × 7″ × 14″ with 3.5″ gussets and a square base, and holds 22 lb. Grilled fish and rice go flat on the bottom, salads on top, lemons and sauces in the side folds. A food tamper-evident sticker on top shows the order was not opened on the way up. You get 100 stickers in every full box.

Sending room orders out with drivers? See the delivery kitchen bags page. Next door down the Peninsula: printed takeout bags in San Mateo.

A design that reads from the curb

Keep your name short and your letters thick. Use one dark color on brown, or a bright one on white. You pick from brown kraft and bright white.

Your logo can fill 12 × 14 in on the front. We email a proof and print only after you approve it. The print proof page walks through that step.

Try a smaller run first with the Discovery Box: 50 bags. When the Avenue starts noticing, move up to 150 bags in a full box.