Creative Ways to Use Restaurant Swag and Merchandise

  • March 9th, 2020
  • 6 minute read
  • Bagmasters Team

Creative Ways to Use Restaurant Swag and Merchandise


In the food industry, marketing and advertising can seem like a daunting task. A typical day’s work is filled with routine operations and managing employees—pushing marketing further down on your company’s priority list. In the past, restaurants have experienced negative consequences for neglecting marketing and advertising. On the bright side, using promotional products or “swag” is one of the best ways to advertise a restaurant. Custom restaurant merchandise acts as a mobile advertisement, a reminder to customers of their experience, and can invite new and returning customers into your restaurant.

There are many options to choose from when it comes to custom restaurant merchandise. Sometimes, trying to figure out what promotional items are best for your restaurant can be overwhelming. What “swag” would be the most effective for your business? Out of all the options, which merchandise will stay consistent with your company’s brand and image?

Bagmasters has the ideal collection that is catered to restaurants, cafes, or other companies within the food industry. The items within the collection are ideal for restaurant giveaways, event merchandise, and even attire for restaurant employees to wear.

Let us introduce you to our Outdoor Cafe Collection. After you look through our items, we know that you will have some new restaurant swag ideas that are perfect for your marketing strategy. With our Outdoor Cafe Collection, restaurant promotion doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive.

Eco-friendly Swag to Boost Your Brand


Eco-One Organic Cotton Tote


Our best-seller tote is not only popular but also eco-friendly. The bag is made of organic cotton, making this bag sustainable and easy to use over and over again. The tote features shoulder length handles and a wide design. This eco-friendly tote can carry a wide variety of objects, but it also makes a fantastic reusable shopping bag. Our tote can also be used to hold additional restaurant swag for large giveaway prizes.

If sustainability is a high priority, the Eco-One Organic Cotton Tote is an excellent way to promote your restaurant while promoting sustainability and making an impact on the environment.


Colored 15 Oz. Campfire Mug


This campfire mug proves that custom restaurant merchandise doesn’t have to be boring. These eco-friendly mugs will get your customers excited to use them on their next camping trip or a cozy night inside. From hot chocolate to a hearty soup, our campfire mugs are functional for any meal. Design your mug with your logo and select a color that is consistent with your restaurant’s brand.

Similar to our tote bag, the campfire mugs can make a great container for smaller swag for your restaurant’s next giveaway. Get your customers excited with these campfire mugs!



Custom Merchandise that is Current



Reusable Face Masks


Recently, face masks are without a doubt the most common accessory for people to wear when they go out in public. Why not capitalize on them? After all, most businesses require that their customers wear a mask while entering their facility. Imagine potential customers not being able to enter your restaurant because they forgot their mask! Luckily, you ordered our reusable face masks that are available for customers to use.

Conveniently, your restaurant’s logo is printed on the front of it, making it an excellent means to advertise your restaurant. When customers go to work and school wearing your restaurant’s face masks, your restaurant will receive more exposure than ever before. These face masks are adjustable, breathable, and machine washable. Our face masks come in black, camo, gunmetal grey, navy blue, and heather grey.


Touch Tool


Speaking of spreading germs, our touch tool is another great way to promote your restaurant while reducing the spread of germs. This tool enables customers to open doors and push buttons in elevators, keypads, crosswalks, and more.

The touch tool is sleek and small enough to fit in your pocket. When the touch tool is paired with our reusable masks, you’ve got an excellent restaurant giveaway package that helps prevent the spread of germs.

Classic Swag for Bars


16 Oz. Craft Beer Glass


If you are the owner of a bar, you know that your customers are big fans of beer. Give your customers these glasses to take home and remind them of their favorite place to go out for a drink. The craft-jar style of the glass gives off an old-fashioned aesthetic for those who love a classic drink of beer.

This unique glass also makes a great container to hold smaller-sized goodies for your bar’s next giveaway.


32 Oz. Amber Malt Growler


Speaking of beer, did you know that the term “growler” comes from the beer lovers in 1883 that would bring buckets of beer home with them? This custom malt growler can not only advertise your restaurant in a classic way, but the item itself is also quite useful. This glass bottle is made to help preserve the beer for a period of time and avoid degradation.

With your logo printed on the bottle, these malt growlers are the perfect way to advertise your restaurant and stay consistent with your brand. Due to the history of growlers, these bottles are a classic throwback for beer lovers.

Custom Apparel to Compliment Your Brand


Polo Spandex with Knitted Mesh Cap


These caps are a great way to advertise your restaurant because it exposes your company in public and can start conversations. The cap is also extremely useful by wicking moisture and protecting the individual from UV rays.

The style of these caps compliments the restaurants who give off a down to earth, athletic, and/or adventurous aesthetic. Your restaurant also has the option to design the cap with up to 10,000 stitches of classic embroidery.

Trucker hats would be the most popular with young adults, especially busy college students who like to wake up, put a cap on, and quickly rush to class. These hats can also keep a consistent brand within the restaurant if they are worn by employees.


Hot Mess Apron


Whether it be for a giveaway or for employees to wear, these aprons are an easy way to boost the branding of your restaurant, cafe, bakery, or whatever it may be. These aprons come in 27 different colors and the option to print any logo or message on the front. At some point in everyone’s life, cooking, crafting, or other messy tasks have destroyed our clothes.

Our Hot Mess Apron is functional, useful, and customers would be grateful to receive one. Why not put your company’s logo on an apron? In addition, adding custom aprons to your employees’ dress code is an excellent way to keep appearances in uniform with each other and with your restaurant’s brand. With many colors to choose from, you won’t have to feel limited when it comes to deciding the perfect apron.



Port & Company Core Cotton T-Shirt


There are so many different ways that a simple t-shirt could boost restaurant promotion. T-shirts are an effective way to market your brand because of its potential to reach a large audience. Some restaurants will have contests where customers can post pictures on social media wearing the company’s shirt, and the winner with the best post wins a prize. Restaurants could also giveaway t-shirts as a thank you gift to returning customers. Likewise, employees could also wear your custom t-shirts as their uniform. There are so many strategies that incorporate these high-quality shirts. Did we mention that they come in 47 different colors and 7 different sizes?

We hope that our Outdoor Cafe Collection has given you some exciting and new restaurant swag ideas to promote your business. The items within our Outdoor Cafe Collection are completely functional, with the potential to reach a large audience and invite new customers. Our unique items can bring your marketing events and restaurant giveaways to a whole new level. With this collection, you will be able to give your customers something that they can be excited about.

Bagmasters Team

The creative team at Bagmasters collectively works on articles to help give insight into the latest trends in marketing and promotional products.

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