Digital menu for restaurants

Why should a restaurant have a digital menu?

Because guests decide on their phones. A digital menu lets people check dishes and prices before they visit, read the menu at the table without waiting for a server, and see today's prices rather than last season's. For you, every change goes live without reprinting a single page.

Will a digital menu help people find my restaurant on Google?

It gives search engines far more to work with than a PDF or a photo. Every published menu is a fast page whose dishes and prices are real text, with schema.org Restaurant and Menu markup describing your cuisine, address, hours and dishes. No tool can guarantee rankings, but this is the format search engines read best.

• Text, not pictures. Every dish, description and price is HTML text that can be indexed and quoted.

• Structured data. Restaurant and Menu markup spells out what you serve and what it costs.

• In the sitemap. Published menus with at least 3 dishes are listed in our XML sitemap.

• On your Google listing. Paste the menu link into your Google Business Profile as well.

How do I set up a digital menu for my restaurant?

Enter your dishes by category, label dietary options, add your branding and opening hours, then publish and print a QR code for every table. With your current menu to hand it usually takes well under an hour, and the Indian restaurant template shows a finished example.

1. Enter the menu

   Add categories in the order guests read them, then each dish with its price and a one-line description.

2. Label dishes

   Tag vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and spicy dishes, and mark signature dishes Popular.

3. Add the details

   Logo, brand colour, address, phone number and weekly opening hours with your time zone.

4. Publish

   Keep the private edit link somewhere the whole management team can find it.

5. Print the codes

   One code on every table, one at the entrance and one in the window. All open the same menu.

Can I show allergens and dietary information?

Yes. Tag dishes as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or spicy, and guests can filter the menu by those labels. Write allergen details, such as nuts, dairy or shellfish, in each dish's description, where they appear under the name. Keep confirming allergens with guests in person as well.

Should a restaurant use one digital menu or several?

Use one menu when guests order from the same list all day, with categories such as Lunch and Dinner. Create separate menus when dishes, prices or hours differ, such as a brunch menu, a drinks list or a second location. Each menu has its own link and QR code, and all are free.