Custom Printed Burger Wrap Paper

Burger wrap paper and who stacks it by the pass

Burger bars, diners, food trucks and stadium stands all keep a stack of burger wrap at the pass. The cook drops the finished burger in the middle, folds, tucks, and slides it down the line.

The first photo on this page shows a white wrap with a bright multi-color print folded around a hot dog in a bun. The second shows a fan of five sample designs. One is kraft with small black icons; the rest are white with blue, green, yellow and red artwork.

The same sheet handles a chicken sandwich, a breakfast muffin or a grilled cheese. If it is hot, handheld and dripping, this is the paper for it.

What a hot burger does to the wrap

A fresh patty gives off fat, steam and a little juice at once. Burger wrap is a high hold-out greaseproof, so the fat stays on the inside face and the outside stays dry enough to hold.

Steam is the enemy of a good bun. The paper breathes slightly, so a wrapped burger that sits two minutes under a lamp keeps a dry top bun. Foil would sweat it soft.

Melted cheese that runs onto the sheet sets as it cools and peels away with the paper. The sheet does not go translucent or fall apart where the fat sits.

Heat is not a problem. Typical grades are fine to about 400°F dry, far above anything a heat lamp or holding cabinet reaches.

What size wrap fits a double burger?

A wrap needs to go around the burger and have about two inches spare on each side for the fold. A tall double needs more paper than a wide single, because the sides climb before they meet on top.

If your menu runs from sliders to doubles, 12 × 12 in is the one size that handles most of it. Our guide to greaseproof sheet sizes by food covers the odd shapes.

How do you fold a burger wrap so it stays shut?

The standard burger fold takes about four seconds once a cook has done it a hundred times. The paper does the work if the sheet is the right size.

1. Lay the sheet flat with the printed side down and the burger in the center.
2. Bring the far edge over the top of the bun and pull it toward you until it is snug.
3. Fold the near edge up and over, so the two edges overlap by two or three inches.
4. Press the left side flat against the bun, then fold the pointed flap underneath.
5. Repeat on the right side, tucking the last flap under the burger so its own weight holds it.

For a half-open presentation, stop after step three and fold the bottom up once. The logo on the top face shows and the customer can eat from the wrap.

Weight and stock: white, kraft or a colored flood

Most burger wrap is white greaseproof at about 30 to 38 lb. White prints bright, folds crisp and lets a red or yellow design pop the way the sample sheets in the second photo do.

Kraft wrap is heavier-looking and hides a grease shadow. It suits a smash-burger place with a plain black logo and not much else on the sheet.

A colored flood, where the whole sheet prints in one solid color with a logo knocked out in white, is popular with burger brands. It uses one ink but covers the sheet, so ask for it by name on the quote.

Go lighter than 30 lb only for sliders and dry items. Go heavier than 38 lb if the wrap doubles as a basket liner.

Printing all-over patterns and loud color on burger wrap

Burger wrap gets printed harder than any other sheet on this site. Icons, slogans, mascots and bold type crowd the sheet. The second photo shows why: a busy pattern still looks right when the wrap is crumpled around the food.

One color on white is cheap and clean. Two colors cover most logo-plus-pattern jobs. Three and four colors suit a full brand scheme matched to Pantone solid-coated swatches.

All inks are food-safe soy or water-based and dry matte into the sheet. They do not rub onto a greasy bun, which is the first thing a burger owner asks.

Keep type over 7 pt and lines over 0.5 pt, because greaseproof has a slightly open surface. Our page on printing on greaseproof paper has the artwork checklist.

Is burger wrap paper good for hot dogs and fries too?

Yes, and many stands use one sheet for everything hot. The hot dog in the first photo sits in a 12 × 16 in sheet folded as a sleeve, open at one end.

• Hot dogs: fold the sheet as a sleeve so the toppings stay in and the customer holds the paper, not the bun.
• Fries: line a basket or a tray with the flat sheet; the logo shows around the edge.
• Chicken tenders and nuggets: a 12 × 12 in sheet folded in half makes a pocket that soaks nothing.
• Breakfast sandwiches: the 10 × 10 in sheet wraps an egg muffin with room to spare.

If fries are the bigger seller, a dedicated liner cut to the basket is tidier. All the sheet papers sit together in the greaseproof sheets range.

Dispensers, pass setup and packing

Burger wrap ships flat, 1,000 sheets to a case, in 500-sheet bundles. Flat matters more here than for any other sheet, because a curled wrap will not sit still under a burger on a busy pass.

A 12 × 12 in sheet drops into a standard pop-up sheet dispenser. 14 × 14 in and 12 × 16 in sizes usually sit in an open tray next to the cook, logo side down so the fold is one motion.

Keep the open bundle off the flat-top side of the line. Greaseproof paper does not catch, but heat dries it and a dry sheet cracks at the fold.

Why does a burger wrap leak or spring open?

The classic error is wrapping a double in a single-size sheet. The edges meet on top but do not overlap, and the first bite opens it.

The second is a light-weight sheet under a sauced burger. Thin paper holds grease but goes limp under a quarter cup of sauce, and the customer ends up holding the sauce.

The third is a logo placed dead center. After the fold, the center of the sheet is under the burger. Put the logo in a repeat or in a corner that finishes on top.

The last is ordering a kraft sheet with a pale print. Yellow on brown reads as nothing. Keep kraft for black, dark red or navy.

Ordering custom burger wrap paper

Send us the size, the stock, the sheet count and your artwork. 1,000 sheets of one size is the smallest run; most burger bars start at 5,000 because the sheets go fast.

A written quote comes back within one business day, and a free design proof follows. We fold a printed sample in the proof image so you can see where your logo finishes.

Edit the proof as often as you need. Once you approve it, the run takes 4 to 6 business days and free tracked delivery in the US adds 2 to 3 more.

If a case arrives damaged or the print is wrong, send photos within 10 days and we reprint or refund. The invoice is settled after you have approved the quote and proof, never before.

Ready to go? Use the burger wrap quote form and tell us what you serve.