Laminated Restaurant Menus, Wholesale

A laminated menu is the hardest-working piece of paper in a restaurant. It gets handled every service, wiped down between covers, and it either still looks like your brand after four months or it looks like a warning about your kitchen.

What we run

• Single sheet — 8.5″ x 11″, 8.5″ x 14″ or 11″ x 17″. The standard, and the cheapest per cover.
• Folded and multi-panel — laminated flat, then scored so the fold does not crack the film.
• Half-page inserts — daily specials, wine lists, dessert cards. 3 mil so they stay flexible.
• Table tents and menu boards — heavier mil so they stand without a holder.

Thickness for menus, specifically

5 mil is the right answer for a menu handled fifty times a day. It is stiff enough to hold its shape when a guest holds it one-handed, and thick enough that the edge does not soften after a month of wiping.

Go down to 3 mil if the piece folds or tucks into a holder. Go up to 7 or 10 mil only for table tents and boards that stand on their own.

Gloss or matte for a menu

Matte is the quiet expert’s choice for restaurants. Dining rooms are lit with downlights, and gloss throws a hot spot straight back at the guest holding the menu at an angle. Matte also hides fingerprints and handling, which is what actually makes a menu look tired.

Gloss is right when the food photography is the selling tool and you want maximum colour saturation — bright casual, fast casual, anywhere the lighting is even.

Reorders

Your spec goes on file: size, mil, finish, corner treatment, quantity. Seasonal menu changes are one phone call — you send the new PDF or the new sheets and we run it exactly as before. Multi-location groups do this quarterly with us.

Send us flat printed sheets, or let us print them too. The combined print-and-laminate rate is cheaper than buying the two separately.