Build your first menu

A menu belongs to one location and has one job: to be read on a phone, at a table, by someone who is hungry. Everything below is in service of that.

Panel Menu Editor

Start with categories

Categories are the tabs a guest scrolls through. Create them in the order you would say them out loud — starters, mains, desserts, drinks — and drag to reorder at any time.

• Keep names to one or two words; they become a horizontal nav bar on a narrow screen.
• Six to nine categories is comfortable. Twenty means the guest scrolls the nav instead of the food.
• A category can be hidden without deleting it — useful for a seasonal section.

Add the items

1. 1
   Name and description

   The name is what they order by. The description is one line of what it actually is — not an advertisement.

2. 2
   Price

   Enter the price in your own currency. An item can also have no price at all, which is what you want for “market price” or a tasting menu.

3. 3
   Variants, if it has them

   Small and large, 200 ml and 400 ml. Each variant has its own price, and the card shows the cheapest as “from”, with the full list in the detail view.

4. 4
   Photo

   Optional, and better absent than bad. One good photo sells a dish; five phone snapshots make a menu look tired.

Allergens, tags and badges

Each item can carry allergens and tags — vegan, spicy, new, chef's pick. Tags show as small badges on the card, and they are the cheapest way to answer the question your staff get asked twenty times a night.

Publish

The editor saves as you type, but nothing reaches guests until you publish. That is deliberate: you can rewrite half the menu during a quiet afternoon and release it in one moment, rather than showing guests a half-finished section.

Changing it later

Prices, names and photos can be changed any time, and the change reaches every code you have ever printed — that is the point of a QR menu. Nothing has to be reprinted unless the code itself changes, which it does not.