A menu QR code that survives yournext price change
Upload your menu PDF and get a print-ready QR code for your tables, and when prices change you swap the file behind it without reprinting a thing.
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From menu PDF to table QR in four steps
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Export your menu as a single PDF
One file for the whole menu reads best on a phone — front and back of a bifold become page 1 and page 2. If you keep food and drinks separate, that's fine too; you can make a second QR for the bar. Keep type at 11pt or larger so nobody has to pinch to read the appetisers.
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Upload it and grab the QR code
Drag the PDF in and it's hosted in a few seconds. Every link ships with a downloadable QR code — save the image and drop it into your table-tent template, a window decal, or the footer of your printed receipts.
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Test the scan before you print 40 of them
Point your own phone camera at the code on screen. It should open the menu in one tap, no app prompt. Check it renders on both an iPhone and an Android if you can — then send the code to the printer.
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Update the menu whenever prices move
Replace the PDF from your dashboard and the same link — and every QR code already printed and stuck to a table — instantly serves the new version. No reprint, no reorder, no downtime.
Reprice without reprinting a single QR
This is the whole reason a menu QR beats a static printed card. A printed QR code is a picture of a URL — and your URL never changes here, only the PDF sitting behind it does. So when the kitchen swaps a seasonal dish, when your fishmonger's price jumps, or when you run a weekend prix fixe, you upload the new PDF and every table already shows it. Restaurants that reprint laminated menus on every change quietly burn through print budgets; a menu QR turns that into a 20-second file swap. The one honest caveat: the change is live the moment you replace the file, so proofread the PDF before you upload — there's no draft state.
No app, no friction at the table
Every iPhone since 2017 and virtually every Android scans QR codes straight from the built-in camera — point, tap the banner, done. Your menu opens in Safari or Chrome, not in some third-party scanner app that begs to be installed. That matters at a table: a guest who has to download an app to see the fries will just ask you for a paper menu. Because the file is a normal PDF served in a mobile viewer, they can pinch to zoom the wine vintages and scroll one-handed while the other hand holds a drink. Keep a couple of paper copies at the host stand anyway — some older guests and the occasional dead phone battery will thank you.
Where to put the code so people actually scan it
Placement decides your scan rate. On tables, a small acrylic tent at eye level beats a sticker flat on the surface — people read tents, they ignore tabletops. Add three words of instruction: "Scan for menu." Put another code on the front window so a passer-by can read your prices before they commit to a seat, and one at the counter for takeaway queues. Print the QR at least 3 cm square so it scans from arm's length in dim restaurant lighting, and leave a white quiet-zone border around it. Avoid glossy laminate that catches glare — matte prints scan more reliably under warm downlights.
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Upload the menu PDF here and you get a public link and a downloadable QR code in seconds. Drop the QR into your table-tent artwork and print. Diners scan it with their phone camera and the menu opens in their browser.
Yes, that's the main reason to use a menu QR. The printed code points at a link that never changes, so replacing the PDF updates every table instantly. Just proofread first, because the change goes live the moment you upload.
No. Every modern iPhone and Android scans QR codes from the native camera app, and your menu opens in Safari or Chrome. There's nothing to install and no account to create.
Aim for at least 3 cm (about 1.2 inches) square with a plain white border so it scans from arm's length in dim lighting. Use matte, not glossy laminate, and add a line like "Scan for menu" so guests know what it does.
Yes. Upload each menu as its own PDF and you get a separate link and QR per file. Put the food code on the table and the drinks code on a coaster, so updating the wine list leaves the food code untouched.
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