Moving your restaurant menu to QR without wasting your time or your guests'

Most restaurants that put a QR on their tables did the same thing: they put their PDF online and pointed the QR at it. It beats nothing, and it is almost always disappointing.

A PDF on a phone is an A4 page shrunk to the size of a credit card. The guest pinches, drags, hunts, gives up. They put the phone down and ask for the paper menu — the one you wanted to stop printing.

What a structured menu does differently

A structured menu is not a picture of your menu: it is data. Categories, dishes, prices, allergens, each in its own field.

That changes four things at once:

• it displays at the right size, because it reflows like a website, not like a document
• it translates, because a dish is identified text and not a pixel
• it carries allergens dish by dish, legibly, instead of an asterisk at the bottom of the page
• it is edited in thirty seconds — a price, a sold-out dish, the seasonal menu

The real blocker is data entry

Nobody wants to retype sixty dishes. That is the main reason this job gets pushed to next month, every month.

With iziqrcode, you photograph your paper menu, or drop in the PDF, multi-page included. The analysis pulls out categories, dishes and prices, and you fix whatever was misread. A photographed chalkboard works as well as a clean document.

One field is never filled automatically: allergens. That is deliberate. The fourteen allergens of EU regulation are safety information, and a machine that guesses them will one day be wrong about a dish where it matters. You tick them, dish by dish.

Languages

Your menu is translated into the service's five languages — French, English, Spanish, Italian and Catalan. Guests see theirs if they have it, yours otherwise.

Every translation stays editable, and it needs to be: "tarte tatin" does not translate, and plenty of dish names translate badly. Whatever should stay as written, you put back as written.

The QR, once and for all

The QR stuck on the table points at your menu, not at its contents. That is the whole difference from the PDF: you change a price, the table needs to know nothing. You switch to the winter menu, the same sticker shows it.

Your menu lives at an address like iziqrcode.com/p/your-restaurant, and the guest installs nothing.

What it costs

One published menu is included in the Pro plan, at €9 excl. VAT per month. Business includes five — for a group, or to split lunch, dinner and drinks. Beyond that, each extra menu costs €5 excl. VAT per month.

Drafts do not count: you can prepare the summer menu in June without it taking a slot. Only publishing uses one.

And the Pro trial runs fourteen days with no card, which is plenty of time to import your menu and see how it looks on a phone, in the room, under your own lighting.