A practical guide, with real screenshots of Menuyo, to get your restaurant, café or bakery menu online in under an hour — with allergens, several languages and a QR code that never changes.
A good digital menu is more than a PDF behind a QR code. It reads well on a phone, shows allergens, speaks the language of whoever is at the table and can change in the middle of service without reprinting anything.
This guide walks you through your first menu, step by step, using real screenshots of Menuyo. You will need less than an hour — and you can do it within the 15-day free trial, with no card.
Once your account is created, start with the Venue profile. This is where you set the venue name, the menu's web address (the link your QR code opens), the main language, the languages you want to offer, currency, time zone and logo.
Pick your guests' languages now. Menuyo shows the menu in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German and Italian, and guests switch language with a single tap.
Categories are the sections guests scroll through: Starters, Fish & seafood, Desserts, Wines. Mark each one as food or drink, reorder them, and hide one for a while without deleting anything.
If your menu is large — say lunch, dinner and a wine list — use Sections to group categories. Guests choose a section first, then see the dishes inside it.
The Builder keeps everything in view: categories on the left, the dish editor in the middle and, on the right, an exact preview of what guests will see.
For each dish, fill in:
EU law requires you to tell guests about 14 allergens. In Menuyo you tick them on each dish, and you can add dietary tags such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or spicy.
Guests see the codes on the menu and the full list in the dish details. For what the law actually says, read our guide to the 14 allergens every menu must show.
With the main language filled in, switch the language tab and write each dish's translation. The dots next to each language show what is already translated.
On the Pro plan, AI prepares a draft translation of the whole menu, which you review and correct before publishing. We wrote a full guide on how to translate your menu for tourists.
In Design, pick one of five templates — Bistro, Elegante, Moderno, Fresco or Nordic — and adjust colours, fonts, text sizes, buttons and your logo. You can also create a dark mode in your own colours. The preview updates as you go.
When you are happy, publish the menu. Under QR code, choose a colour and style and download it as PNG, JPEG or EPS — EPS is what your print shop will ask for.
The QR code always points to the live menu. Change dishes, prices and photos as often as you like: the printed code stays the same.
This is what your guests see on their phone:
Some guests prefer paper, and windows and terraces often need a printed menu. In Print menu you create a print-ready PDF from the same menu: the full menu, a specials card, a compact one-pager or a takeaway sheet.
We explain when each makes sense in QR code menu or printed menu?.
The Today screen is for everyday service. Sold out of something? Mark it sold out and guests see it straight away, with no new link. Running a menu of the day or a chef's suggestion? Create it under Special menu.
The Pro plan adds analytics: how many people open your menu, your busiest hours, the most viewed dishes and the languages guests read in.
No. The QR code opens the menu in the phone's browser.
You can try every Starter feature for 15 days, with no card. After that, Starter is €14.99 a month and Pro is €21.99 a month (plus VAT). See all the details on Pricing.
Yes. Each venue has its own menu, design and QR code, all managed from one account.
Create your menu free for 15 days — no credit card needed. Prefer to see how it works first? Take a look at How it works.
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