Printed takeout bags for Mission Valley restaurants.

A valley built for visitors and shoppers

Mission Valley did not grow up as a quiet neighborhood. The city's own history study says seven early hotels went up within a mile of each other along the freeway, and that ring of roads became Hotel Circle. Mission Valley Center was built between 1959 and 1961, and Fashion Valley had four big anchor stores by 1969.

Today the City calls the valley a regional hub for offices, hotels and shopping, with more people moving into new apartments every year. The trolley runs right through it and ties the whole thing together.

So who eats your food? A salesperson at a desk on the tenth floor. A family of five in a hotel room after a long day out. A couple loading shopping bags into the trunk. A nurse grabbing dinner on the way home to a new apartment by the river. That is four different crowds, all in one valley, all carrying your bag somewhere else.

Your bag goes where you never will

Here is the part most owners miss. Almost none of your Mission Valley orders get eaten at your counter. They get eaten upstairs, across the parking lot, or two trolley stops away.

• Hotel rooms: the bag sits on the desk all night. The guest sees your name every time they look up from the TV.
• Office towers: one person brings lunch back, and six coworkers ask where it came from.
• Mall parking lots: shoppers set the bag on the passenger seat and drive home across town.
• New apartments: the bag lands on a kitchen counter in a building full of neighbors who have not picked a favorite spot yet.

A plain brown sack tells none of those people anything. A printed bag tells every one of them your name. That is free advertising inside rooms you could never buy an ad in.

Riding the trolley across the valley

Some of your orders will ride the trolley. A bag on a trolley seat sits at eye level with a whole car of strangers for a few stops. Big, simple letters win. One bold color on brown kraft can be read from the other end of the car. Thin script with five colors cannot.

Our bag is 12″ × 7″ × 14″, made from 110 GSM kraft with a flat square bottom, and it holds up to 22 lb. That is enough for a whole office order of burgers, bowls and drinks without the bottom giving out halfway to the elevator.

You get a print area of 12 × 14 in on the front. Use it. The press game at the top of this page shows how much a crooked or tiny logo gets lost on that space.

Delivery to hotel lobbies and front desks

Delivery drivers in the valley spend a lot of time in hotel lobbies and office reception areas. The bag may sit on a front desk for a few minutes while the guest comes down. Fold the top over and seal it with a food tamper-evident sticker. The guest knows nobody opened it, and the front desk staff get a good look at your logo while they wait.

Want to know what that costs per order before you commit? Our logo printed bag cost breakdown walks through each box, line by line. It is the same bag every shop gets when they order logo printed takeout bags in San Diego, from the beach towns to the valley floor.