Burger Sleeves
Printed paper sleeves that hold and brand a burger.
A sleeve is the lightest way to serve and brand a burger: greaseproof paper holds it, catches drips, and prints full-color on the most-held surface.
- Greaseproof paper sleeve
- Holds and brands the burger
- Catches drips
- Full-color food-safe print
It's cheaper than a clamshell for hand-held service.
“Our takeout boxes stopped leaking and started advertising. Grease-proof board plus one bold color on kraft — simple and it works.”
“The free dieline saved us. Our first supplier wanted $400 for structural work; here it came with the quote, and the sample folded perfectly first try.”
The band that does a box's branding job
A burger sleeve is a printed paper band that grips a wrapped burger: the lightest, cheapest structure in the category, and yet it puts brand color and a logo exactly where every customer looks, directly around the product in their hands. For high-volume quick service, the sleeve delivers most of a clamshell's branding at a fraction of its cost, weight and storage space.
It also does honest mechanical work: the band compresses the wrap so a stacked burger holds its build to the last bite, and greaseproof stock keeps fingers dry through the drips.
Sleeve, wrap or box
The decision is a service-style question. Counter and dine-in service, where the burger travels meters, is sleeve territory: wrap the burger, slide the band, serve. Delivery and loaded builds want the structure of a vented clamshell, the trade covered on our burger packaging page. Many operations run both, sleeves for the counter, boxes for the apps, and matching print across the two keeps the brand consistent per channel.
Sizing is cut to your bun spec: standard, brioche-tall and footlong-style formats all band differently.
Print economics at burger volume
Sleeves are consumed by the thousand, so the standard play is one or two bold colors on kraft or white, readable across a food hall, at case prices that barely register per unit. Full color suits chains and collabs. The flat blank prints and die-cuts efficiently, and sleeves ship dead flat, a case the size of a shoebox bands a week of service. Pair with fry holders and patty paper for the full pass-through kit.
Do sleeves fit gluten-free and lettuce-wrap builds?
Yes, softer builds actually benefit most, the band is what holds them together. Send your bun lineup and we template the band widths.
