Printed kraft takeout bags for the Gaslamp Quarter. Your logo on Fifth Avenue all night.

A neighborhood where hundreds of names fight for one glance

Walk Fifth Avenue on a Saturday night and count the signs. Steakhouses, rooftop bars, pizza by the slice, late night tacos, sushi, burgers after a Padres game at Petco Park. The Gaslamp Quarter Association alone speaks for more than 400 businesses. Every one of them wants the same tourist, the same convention crowd, the same group walking back to a hotel.

Your sign only works while people stand in front of it. Your bag keeps working after they leave. It rides up the elevator at the hotel, sits on the desk at an office near Broadway, and gets carried across the trolley platform. That's a few hundred feet of free advertising per order, in the busiest blocks in the county.

What the foam ban means for a downtown kitchen

Since April 2023, the City of San Diego has banned most foam food ware: foam bowls, plates, cups, lids and trays. Utensils and straws now go out only when a guest asks. If you run a downtown kitchen, you already made the switch to paper and fiber boxes.

Here's the part people miss. The city rule is about what holds the food, not about what carries it. So the bag is still your call. A sturdy kraft bag fits right next to the fiber boxes you bought for the ban, and it's the one piece of packaging big enough to carry your name. If you want the full picture for the whole county, start at our page on logo printed bags for San Diego restaurants.

Late night orders and hotel deliveries

Downtown runs on two clocks. Lunch for office towers and the convention center, and a second rush from about ten at night until the bars close. Both rushes have one thing in common: the food travels. Up an elevator, through a hotel lobby, into a rideshare.

• Hotel room drop offs. Fold the top and seal it with one of the 100 free food tamper-evident stickers in every box. The guest knows nobody opened it on the way up.
• Group orders after a game. Six burgers, fries, wings and drinks get heavy. Our bag is 12″ × 7″ × 14″ and carries 22 lb, so one bag does it.
• Convention lunch runs. A stack of bags with your name lands on a booth table in front of dozens of people from out of town.

What to print when your crowd is from out of town

A lot of people eating in the Gaslamp don't live here. They won't remember the street you were on. Give them your name, big, and one small line that helps them find you again, like your website or your corner. Skip the long tagline.

Dark logos look sharp on brown kraft under the gas lamps. If your brand is neon pink or electric blue, choose the bright white bag. You can print up to 12 × 14 in on the front, and you see your logo on the bag before you check out. Not sure if one box is enough? Read how the one box minimum works.