Logo printed kraft takeout bags for Solana Beach restaurants.

Two streets, two kinds of customer

Solana Beach is small, but its food runs along two very different strips. Coast Highway 101 is the main road. Cars, bikes and walkers pass all day, and the restaurants face a steady flow of people who are going somewhere. Cedros Avenue is one block inland and moves slower. It is the design district: furniture shops, galleries, home stores and the cafes and wine bars that sit between them.

On 101, you get a few seconds of attention from someone driving or riding past. On Cedros, you get people who stroll, stop and stare at things on purpose. Both are good news for a printed bag. One needs a name that reads fast. The other needs a bag that looks good enough to be noticed by people who notice everything.

A plain brown sack does neither job. A bag with your logo does both.

More kitchens means more reasons to stand out

Local news has tracked a run of new places on the 101 in the last couple of years, including a second location of a Gaslamp restaurant inside the Sandbox building, with more dining announced along the highway and on Cedros. That is great for the town. It also means more choice for every hungry person walking by.

When there are more places to eat, people forget names faster. The order they loved on Friday turns into "that spot near the train station" by Tuesday. Your bag fixes that. It sits on their kitchen counter with your name on it while they eat, and it is still there the next morning when they plan lunch.

If you sell poke or seafood bowls, our poke and seafood bag page shows how to pack cold bowls so they arrive neat.

Fair weekend and the walk to the cove

The city lists Fiesta Del Sol as a free two day street fair with music, art, a food court and coastal fun, put on by the Chamber of Commerce and Belly Up. The crowd that comes for it fills the streets near the beach and spills into every place that sells food or drinks.

Plan for it the same way you plan for summer. Check your bag count a few weeks ahead, since shipping takes 3 to 4 days. A busy weekend is the worst time to switch to plain bags because you ran out.

The rest of the year, lots of Solana Beach takeout goes on a walk down to Fletcher Cove or the sand. Our 110 GSM kraft bag has a flat square bottom so it stands up on a towel. It measures 12″ × 7″ × 14″ and carries up to 22 lb, with flat paper handles that are easy on the hand.

A bag that fits the design district

In a neighborhood full of design shops, your bag gets judged. Keep it simple and sure of itself. One clear logo, plenty of space, one ink color. Black or deep green on brown kraft feels warm and natural. White kraft with a dark mark looks clean and bright for juice, poke and salad spots.

Make the name big. The print area is 12 × 14 in on the front, so you have room. You see a proof before we print, and you can change it as many times as you need.

This is the same bag behind all our logo printed takeout bags for San Diego restaurants. Seafood spots on the 101 can also read the fish taco bag guide on keeping fried food crisp on the walk to the beach.