Myrtle Beach wants to stop pizza delivery flyers, both fake and real, in hotels
The City of Myrtle Beach is seeking an injunction to halt people from papering hotel rooms with takeout flyers without permission.
The summons asks for both a temporary and permanent injunction against locals for distributing the flyers underneath hotel room doors, saying it was a response to city ordinance violations.
“This Complaint seeks to temporarily and permanently enjoin these individuals and companies from continuing to violate the City’s Handbill Ordinance,” the complaint reads.
Attorney for the city, James Battle, declined to comment further on the complaint when reached by phone on Tuesday. Lead city spokesperson Meredith Denari said the city doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
According to previous Sun News reporting, hotels along Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach see an influx of fake and real pizza flyers under guests’ doors.
“These pizza delivery companies do not have the hotels’ permission to go onto their property, and the individuals distributing the flyers often put the flyers under the door of every hotel room,” the complaint reads. “The result is hundreds of flyers littering hotel rooms.”
The complaint further states that the companies most frequently associated with this distribution of flyers in hotels are Pizza De Roma, Da Vinci Pizza, Marco Polo Pizzeria and Bawk Bawk Fish N Chicken.
The City of Myrtle Beach has an ordinance making it unlawful to distribute flyers without the hotel owners’ permission. The defendants allegedly have violated that ordinance prior to this complaint despite the existence of a city ordinance.
In 2009, the city filed a lawsuit to “temporarily and permanently enjoin several pizza companies from distributing flyers,” the complaint states. Since then, the pizza flyers have allegedly returned to Myrtle Beach hotel rooms.
The city’s ordinance against distributing flyers in hotels without the property’s permission does not have an escalating penalty due to repeat offenses, which is why the city is asking for an injunction, the complaint states.
This story was originally published July 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM.
