Logo printed takeout bags for Normal Heights restaurants.

A neighborhood that eats on one street

Normal Heights is a San Diego neighborhood where most of the eating happens on one road. Adams Avenue runs through it with dive bars, coffee shops, taco counters, pizza by the slice, vegan spots and old school diners all within a short walk of each other.

That kind of street runs on regulars. People live a few blocks away, walk over, and order the same thing they always get. They also walk home with it. Every bag that leaves your door goes down a side street full of neighbors who might not have tried you yet.

Here is the simple math. A plain bag tells those neighbors nothing. A bag with your logo tells them where dinner came from, without you saying a word.

Fair weekend on Adams

The city lists the Adams Avenue Street Fair on Adams Avenue between 32nd and 36th Streets. It is free, with dozens of bands on several stages, hundreds of craft booths, festival food and beer gardens. Those are the blocks your customers already walk.

A crowd like that is hungry all day, and plenty of people skip the food booths and duck into a real restaurant. Others come back the next week for the place they spotted. If your bag has your name on it, the people carrying your food through the fair are doing your advertising for you.

Order ahead. Shipping takes 3 to 4 days, and fair weekend is a bad time to run out. Our low minimum bag page shows how to buy just enough for a busy stretch.

More food days all year

The Adams Avenue Business Association does more than one fair. Its events page lists Taste of Adams Avenue, a food day that takes in burger joints, cafes and sushi spots across Normal Heights and the neighborhoods next door, plus music and holiday events along the avenue.

Events like these bring people who are there on purpose to try new food. They taste a bite, they like it, and then they forget the name. A printed bag stops that. If they take something home, your name goes with it and sits on their counter.

Taco and burrito spots on the avenue can also read our California burrito shop guide on keeping foil wrapped orders hot on the walk home.

A look that fits the neighborhood

Normal Heights has a fun, a little bit scrappy feel. Your bag can too. Big hand drawn letters, a bold color, a small joke if that is your style. Just keep the name easy to read from across the sidewalk.

Our 110 GSM kraft bag is 12″ × 7″ × 14″ and holds up to 22 lb, so a family pizza order with sides fits fine. It has a flat bottom that stands up on a counter or a car seat, and flat paper handles. Fold the top and close it with a food tamper-evident sticker so delivery orders show up sealed.

The print area is 12 × 14 in on the front, and you approve a proof first. It is the same bag behind every one of our logo printed takeout bags for San Diego restaurants.