What does the design studio make?

Menus, table tents, cards and flyers, cups and packaging, glassware and bar supplies, boxes and bags, labels, window graphics, A-frames, feather flags, banners, vehicle wraps, uniforms, aprons, caps and merch. All of it drawn out of your brand book so it matches.

Do I have to have branding with you first?

No. Plenty of people come to us with the branding already settled. If the logo is right and the colors are set, we work inside what you already have and leave alone the part that is working.

Do you print what you design?

We can. Printing is handled in house by Pink Elephant Prints, our own print company. You can also take the print-ready files to your own printer — they are yours either way.

Print-ready files set for the machine, the layered vector originals, web and screen versions, and every format the job needs so nothing has to be redrawn later.

Where is Acquired Taste Studios based?

Charlotte, North Carolina, serving clients nationwide. Founded by Asha Mohamed and Amir Mohamed.

Restaurant Menu, Uniform & Signage Design

The next step after branding

You have the logo, the mascot, the colors, the fonts.

Design is where we mold those elements into something you can hold.

Your uniforms, your merch, your signs — for your coffee shop, your brewery, your boba store, your bar, your restaurant.

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The 2am logo

Look closely at the image below. Can you find all the discrepancies?

An AI generated mascot before the problems are marked

The same mascot with every problem circled

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Four fingers. Four toes. A missing foot. A body that isn’t sitting on anything.

Nobody catches it on the screen at 2am. Everybody catches it on a six foot sign.

Hand drawn pencil study of the mascot seated

So we re-sketch the shapes by hand and get them right — the feet, the hands, where the weight actually sits. From there the character stays consistent and correct on every single thing it goes on.

We accept your AI images for your ideas. We know AI can create a great idea. We also know AI cannot create you a vector image.

So bring us what you have, and we design it without the AI mistakes.

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The bench

A logo that breaks on the machine isn’t finished.

We draw the product with the file, not after it.

Dielines and dimensions

We draw straight onto the printer’s dieline — a 16oz can wrap, a tri-fold menu, a box that has to fold. The type still sits square after it is cut, folded and wrapped.

Color, set for the machine

A screen makes color out of light. A press makes it out of ink. We set your green for each one, so it is the same green on the window as it is on the can.

Material and feel

The weight of the stock. How a thick stitch sits in heavy canvas. How deep the etch has to go before condensation hides it.

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The floor

We design your products straight out of your brand book.

Menus — food, drink, brunch, the board behind the bar
Table tents, numbers and coasters
Cards and flyers — loyalty, gift, rack cards, inserts
Cups, sleeves and lids — hot, cold and to go

Glassware, mugs and tumblers
Tins, shakers and strainers
Bar mats and tap handles — the working side, where the guest still sees it
Cans, crowlers and keg collars — built for the canning line and a wet walk-in

Boxes and clamshells — the one that has to hold up in a car
Bags and greaseproof paper — basket liners, wraps, the bag it leaves in
Coffee and retail bags
Labels and stickers — seals, allergen tags, jars and bottles

Windows and doors — clings, hours, vinyl and lettering
A-frames and feather flags
Banners and retractable stands
Truck and trailer wraps

Tees, polos and button-downs
Aprons — bib, waist, and the one with their name on it
Caps and visors
Merch lines — the thing they actually want to wear out of the building
Everything else — if it can be printed, stitched, etched or cut, ask us

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The handoff

We don’t hand you the files and wish you luck.

For a lot of design studios the job is done when the design is done. Ours keeps going — we offer in house print services.

First, here is what is yours the day the design is signed off:

Print-ready files — set for the machine. Bleed, color, material, size, dieline. The press can run it clean the first time.
Working files — the vector originals, layered and editable.
Web and screen versions — sized for your site, your socials and your ordering screens.
Every format the job needs — so nothing has to be redrawn later.

Have a printer you already use and trust? Take it straight to them. It is set up so their press can run it without a single question back to you.

Or let us run it, and it usually lands at a better price.

Better prices — we buy the runs, so the savings come back to you.
One proof, one approval — you say go, we run it, it arrives finished. Nothing to size, nothing to chase.
Most of it under one roof — and when something falls outside what we make, we point you straight to where it is easy to get.
Your folder stays with us — the seasonal menu change, the event run, uniform variations for new hires, another sign for the patio door. You ask, we pull your folder, it goes out. Nothing gets built twice.

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Already have it

Love what you already have? Keep it.

Plenty of people come to us with the branding already settled. The logo is right, the colors are set, and they are proud of it.

Maybe it is a new menu layout with the items updated. Maybe it is new merch for your customers. Maybe it is better uniforms to lift the morale in the building. Whatever the reason, we start right here and make you whatever you need.

We work inside what you already have — your files, your fonts, your colors — and we leave alone the part that is working. A refresh is not a rebrand, and we are more than happy to do either one.

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Back where we started

Stop blending into the block. Start owning it.

If people are walking and driving past without noticing you, that is not a food problem.

Bring what you have — the napkin, the 2am logo, the file that keeps breaking. We clean it up, set it for the machine, and build a system that drives revenue across every screen and every seat on your floor.

We don’t just design brands. We build destinations.

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