Restaurant Flyers

What Are Restaurant Flyers

Restaurant flyers are full-color print handouts a restaurant uses to advertise its menu, specials, events, and openings. They print on one or both sides in 9 sizes, from a 4.25" x 5.5" handbill up to an 11" x 25.5" full sheet, on any of 7 paper stocks. You reach for them when a plate needs an audience: takeout menus, lunch and happy-hour specials, seasonal dishes, grand openings, and delivery drops. Because these flyers print in-house, the color you approve on screen is the color that lands in a customer's hand.

What Size Should a Restaurant Flyer Be

The right size comes down to how much you need to say. A 4.25" x 5.5" flyer is the pocket handout for a quick special or a coupon. A 5.5" x 8.5" or 4.25" x 11" gives a full menu room to breathe, and the 4" x 9" runs tall like a rack card for a takeout counter. When you want a full sheet for a window or a table display, the size climbs to 11" x 25.5", and you can set a custom size up to 11" x 26" if none of the presets fits. All 9 sizes, both finishes and the full stock list are grouped below exactly the way the live configurator presents them, so you know what you can change before you change it.

Here are a few easy ways to make a restaurant flyer pull its weight.

Pick a stock that fits the job

A 100# gloss text is bright and photo-friendly for a menu full of dishes, while a 70# uncoated text takes pen and reads soft for a coupon or a table note. Step up to an 80# or 14pt cover when you want a flyer with real weight, like a table tent or a rack card, and add a High Gloss UV coating to make food photography snap. If sustainability matters to your kitchen, the 14pt uncoated cover is made with 30% recycled content.

Design it without a designer

You do not need a design background to make a menu flyer look sharp. Start from a professionally built layout in our flyer design templates, then change the colors, copy and photos in the online editor in minutes. Drop in your dishes, set your prices, and you have a print-ready flyer.

Already have your artwork? Skip the editor and download a press-ready blank instead. Each blank restaurant flyer template is built at the real trim size with the 1/8" bleed and safe margin already drawn in, so your menu never crowds the cut. Grab the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.

How Much Do Restaurant Flyers Cost

Restaurant flyers start at $39.54 per 50, and the per-flyer price keeps dropping as the quantity climbs toward 25,000: 500 run $108.75, 1,000 run $126.32, and 25,000 run $783.15, which works out near 3 cents a flyer. So how many do you actually need? Drag the slider below to set your count and watch both the total and the true per-flyer cost update live, and find the point where one more step up barely moves the budget.

What Paper and Finish Should You Print On

There are 7 stocks and 2 finishes here, and the pick shapes how the flyer reads in a hand. For ink, print full color on the front with a blank back to keep it lean, or full color on both sides when the menu runs long. A Standard finish keeps a natural, easy-to-write-on surface, while a High Gloss UV coating gives a shine that makes a plated dish look its best. Match a heavier cover stock with the UV coat for a table tent that survives a dinner service, or keep an uncoated text light and cheap for a coupon you hand out by the hundred.

How Fast Can You Get Restaurant Flyers

Restaurant flyers print on a 3 business day standard turnaround, and when a date sneaks up you can move that to 2-day, Next-Day or even Same-Day production. Order by the daily cutoff and a same-day job ships that same afternoon from the NYC plant, so a menu change tonight can be on the counter tomorrow. You can also add a free online proof to check your prices and layout before the run starts, and with 99.8% of orders landing on time and 82% shipping early, you are not gambling on the date.

How Do Restaurant Flyers Compare to the Rest of the Range

Restaurant flyers are the value pick when you want your menu in a customer's hand, but they are not your only move. If you are weighing a folded menu, a food-truck handout or a bakery card, it helps to see the trade-off in plain numbers. The chart below lines up restaurant flyers against their closest siblings, including Folded Flyers, Food Truck Flyers and Bakery Flyers, so you can compare the starting price on each before you choose.

See How a Finished Restaurant Flyer Lands

Words only go so far. Want to see how stock, color and a gloss coat come together on a real flyer? The gallery below collects work printed in-house across different sizes, stocks and finishes, so you can borrow a layout idea and see how a menu actually reads once it is on paper. Tap any piece to see it larger.

What Do Restaurants Use Flyers For

A restaurant flyer does a lot of small jobs. Slip one into every takeout bag with a discount for the next visit, leave a stack by the register for a new seasonal menu, post a grand-opening flyer around the neighborhood, or drop delivery menus door to door. When you want the flyer to open into a full menu, the Folded Flyers handle it, so weigh a folded run against a flat sheet before you order. One design, printed to spec, covers the counter, the table, and the mailbox.

See the Rest of Our Flyers

Restaurant flyers are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. If a folded menu, a rounder cut or a heavier stock would serve you better, the rest of the family is one tap away. Each option shows its own starting price and links straight to its product page, so finding the right fit takes seconds.

Print Your Restaurant Flyers Today

At 4OVER4.COM, quality comes first, and it's backed by a satisfaction guarantee and 25+ years of printing since 1999. Whatever size, stock or finish you pick, these flyers are built to make your food look good and get a customer through the door. Need them before a service or a grand opening? Our Same-Day production keeps you covered. Print your restaurant flyers today.

What Goes on a Restaurant Flyer

A flyer has one job at a time, and the layout follows the job. Pick the single thing the reader should do, then give it the top third of the sheet.

• Takeout menu: dishes and prices, your phone number and the ordering link, printed on both sides on a 5.5" x 8.5" or a 4.25" x 11".
• Lunch or happy-hour special: one offer, the days and the hours. A 4.25" x 5.5" handout is enough, and a 70# uncoated text takes a pen when a price moves.
• Grand opening: the date, the address and one reason to come. A 100# gloss text carries a photo of the food.
• Window or table piece: an 80# or 14pt cover with a High Gloss UV coating, which survives a dinner service.

Keep the edges clear. The blank restaurant flyer template already draws the bleed and the safe margin, so nothing important lands in the trim.