Logo printed kraft takeout bags for Mountain View restaurants.

Castro Street is a walking street now

Downtown Mountain View runs on one street. Castro Street, from Evelyn down toward California, is lined with ramen counters, dumpling houses, Korean barbecue, Indian thali spots, taquerias, boba shops and bakeries. The city closed it to cars during the pandemic, and in October 2022 the City Council made that official with a pedestrian mall ordinance.

That changed who sees your takeout. On a car street a bag goes from your counter to a trunk in a few steps. On a walking street it passes patio tables, the Caltrain crowd and people waiting for a table next door. A plain bag says nothing on that walk. A bag with your name on it reminds everyone where the food came from.

Lunch from the campuses, dinner from the neighborhoods

Weekday lunch brings office workers down from North Bayshore and over from the light rail, many of them ordering ahead and picking up in a hurry. Evenings and weekends bring families from Old Mountain View, Cuesta Park and the apartments along El Camino. Both groups carry food back to a room full of coworkers or roommates who stayed behind.

That second room is where the bag earns its keep. Somebody at a desk asks where the noodles came from, and the answer is printed right on the side. Noodle bars can find broth and lid tips on our ramen shop bag page, and dumpling houses can borrow ideas from the dim sum bag page.

Big letters win on a pedestrian mall

On Castro, people read your bag from a table across the walkway, not from your counter. Thin script and tiny taglines vanish at that distance. Short names in heavy letters hold up. Run the test at the top of this page with your own name before you send anything to print.

We print up to 12 × 14 in on the front of a 12″ × 7″ × 14″ bag. Logo setup costs $0 with us, while many printers charge $150+ just to get started. One dark color on brown kraft reads clearly from the other side of the street.

Pickup shelves and the walk home

Order ahead pickups sit on a shelf by the door until someone grabs them. A printed bag makes that shelf look like your shop, not a pile of anonymous paper. Write the order name on a food tamper-evident sticker and seal the top, so the customer knows nobody opened it on the way.

The bag stands on a 3.5″ gusset and carries up to 22 lb, so a family order of noodle bowls, rice and sides makes it home without a torn handle. For the whole process from upload to delivery, see our guide to logo printed takeout bags across the Bay Area.