Printed takeout bags for Union City restaurants.

Dinner gets picked up on the walk from BART

Union City built a whole neighborhood around its train station. BART says about 1,000 new homes went up within a quarter mile of the platform, and buses now pull right up to the west side.

So picture the evening. Trains empty out. People walk home past your door, tired and hungry. Some grab a bowl of pho, some grab a burrito, some grab a box of lumpia for the family. Then they keep walking, holding your food, past everyone else coming off the same train.

That walk is free advertising, if your name is on the bag. A blank brown sack tells the next commuter nothing. A printed one tells them exactly where dinner came from and how close it is.

New to this? Our main page on printed takeout bags for Bay Area restaurants covers the basics. This page sticks to Union City.

Alvarado and Decoto still have their own corners

Union City became a city in 1959 when older towns came together. Alvarado was even the very first county seat of Alameda County. Decoto is the other old core you still hear people name.

Those old corners keep their own regulars. A family runs a lunch counter for twenty years, and the same faces come in every week. The risk is that new neighbors from the Station District never learn the name.

A bag with your logo fixes that. Every order you send home is a little sign that walks into a new apartment building and sits on a new kitchen counter.

One bag for a family order

Lots of Union City orders feed a whole house. Rice trays, a pot of soup, a stack of boxes and a few drinks, all leaving at once.

Our bag measures 12″ × 7″ × 14″, has 3.5″ gussets and a flat bottom, and holds 22 lb. Set the soup down first so it stays level, flat boxes go on top, sauce cups slide into the side folds. Close it with a food tamper-evident sticker. A full box ships with 100 of them.

Cooking noodle soup? The ramen bags page has packing tips for hot broth. Your neighbors to the south get their own page too: see printed takeout bags in Fremont.

Center your logo, keep it bold

The game above is a joke with a point. A logo that sits right in the middle of the bag looks clean in every photo and every hand. We line it up for you, but you still choose how bold it is.

Go with thick letters, one icon and one dark color. You get 12 × 14 in on the front, in brown kraft and bright white. We send you a proof first and print nothing until you approve it. The print proof page shows the steps.

Want to start small? The Discovery Box has 50 bags. When the commuters start asking, step up to a full box of 150.