MIDTOWN SACRAMENTO · SACRAMENTO AREA
Menus
in Midtown Sacramento.
Storefront-dense, walkable, and hard on signage. Midtown is the closest thing Sacramento has to a district where the sign is the marketing.
Where can I get menus in Midtown Sacramento? Ace Printing & Same Day Signs, at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825 (about 5 miles from Midtown Sacramento), prints dine-in, takeout and laminated menus, plus seasonal inserts and table tents. Order by 10:00 AM Monday to Friday and most standard work is ready the same afternoon. Free proof before you pay. Call (916) 944-7195.
Most orders for menus from Midtown Sacramento start the same way: somebody measures a space, realizes they need this sooner than they thought, and starts calling. That call is short here: the price is posted, the shop is about 5 miles away, and the person answering can see the queue.
Midtown Sacramento, and who buys menus there.
The businesses ordering menus in Midtown Sacramento cluster into a few recognizable groups. Retail and storefront business, events, venues and community organizations, professional and government offices chief among them.
The blocks between J and Capitol are full of restaurants, salons, studios, bars, and small offices sitting shoulder to shoulder in converted Victorians and mid-century storefronts, and almost none of them have a parking lot or a monument sign to hide behind.
The Midtown order pattern is small, frequent, and time-sensitive: window lettering with hours and a phone number, sandwich boards for the day’s specials, menus that change with the season, event banners for Second Saturday and the block events that come with it, and the occasional full storefront wrap when someone decides to stop blending into the block.
Price lists, service menus and counter cards for shops that sell by the service rather than the item.
Catering and event menus, bar lists and buffet signage printed for a specific date.
Cafe and canteen menus and internal service listings.
What it costs.
Menus are quoted on size, stock, quantity and finishing. Single-sheet takeout menus follow the flyer rates. 500 for $165, 1,000 for $215.
Table tents, counter cards and inserts are small, cheap pieces, which is exactly why they’re the right place to test a dish before it earns a spot on the main menu.
We publish the whole list rather than quoting on request, which means you can budget before you pick up the phone, and the person calling in a panic gets the same number as the one who planned three weeks out. The full list is here.
What we actually build.
The argument for reprinting more often is margin, not appearance. A menu two years old is charging two-year-old prices on ingredients bought this week, and every plate sold at the old number is margin already gone. Against that, a reprint is small money.
Leave white space. A menu with none can’t absorb a new dish without a redesign, which turns every small change into a project and is why so many menus end up with a taped-on insert.
Getting menus from Midtown Sacramento.
From 1835 Fulton Ave it’s a straight shot down to the Capital City Freeway and off at one of the lettered-street exits, about five miles and, outside of commute hours, well under fifteen minutes. Midtown’s grid makes the last part easy: numbered streets one way, lettered streets the other, and your address tells you exactly where you are.
Standard printed menus and inserts are same-day when in by 10:00 AM. Laminated menus are not. Lamination is an extra process. Plan lead time. If the drive is the awkward part rather than the deadline, ask about delivery when you place the order. It’s available on many jobs, though for a genuinely same-day deadline collecting at the counter is still fastest.
Questions we get from Midtown Sacramento.
Can you print table tents and counter cards to match?
Yes, and they’re the cheapest way to sell the dish you actually want to sell. Small, quick, and easy to change weekly without touching the main menu.
How often should I reprint?
Full menus once or twice a year to keep prices current; inserts and specials whenever you like; takeout menus whenever they run out. And immediately if the phone number, hours or address change: an old menu with a dead number is worse than none.
How far is the shop from Midtown Sacramento?
About 5 miles. We’re at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with parking in front and more in the rear.
Do Midtown Sacramento customers pay a different rate?
No. One posted price list for everyone. Banners $6 per square foot, coroplast $9, vinyl lettering $7, PVC $11, aluminum composite $13.50, 500 business cards $58, shirts from $15. Where you drive from doesn’t change the number.