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Practical writing on running a live menu: what the EU and US actually require on a menu, how to serve guests who do not read the local language, and what scan data is good for.
QR Code Menus for Restaurants: The Complete 2026 Guide
Everything you have to decide to put a working menu behind a printed code, in the order you have to decide it.
12 min readAllergens & compliance
What the EU and US actually require on a menu, and how to put it there without overclaiming.
The EU's 14 Allergens on a Restaurant Menu
Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 requires allergen information for the food you serve at a table. The 14 allergens, what counts as providing it, and how to structure it.
7 min readUS Restaurant Allergen Disclosure After California's ADDE Act
California's ADDE Act took effect on 1 July 2026 and allows digital allergen disclosure with a print option. What US restaurants must show, and where.
7 min readHow to Put Allergen Information on a Digital Menu
Where allergen data comes from, how to structure it per item, what to show a guest, and the wording that keeps an estimate from reading like a certification.
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Multilingual & tourist menus
Serving guests who do not read the local language, without mangling the dish names.
Multilingual Restaurant Menus: A Practical Guide for Tourist Venues
How to run a restaurant menu in several languages without mangling the dish names: which languages to add, what to translate, and what to leave alone.
7 min readRestaurant Menu Translation: Where AI Helps and Where It Ruins the Dish
Machine translation is good at menu descriptions and unreliable at menus. The failure modes, and a review workflow that keeps a bad translation off the table.
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Setup & print
Getting a working code onto the table: menu structure, code type, print size, testing.
How to Create a QR Code Menu for Your Restaurant
A step-by-step guide to building a QR code menu: structuring the menu, choosing the code type, exporting for print, and testing it before service.
6 min readStatic vs Dynamic QR Codes for Restaurant Menus
A static code welds today's menu URL into the print run. What that costs a restaurant, why dynamic codes scan better, and the one case static still wins.
7 min readQR Code Size and Placement: A Print Guide for Table Tents
How big a menu QR code needs to be, where to put it, which materials survive service, and how to test a code before you order two hundred of them.
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Your menu as a growth asset
Search visibility, scan data, and the menu decisions that data can and cannot support.
Guest experience
What guests actually think of QR menus, who gets left behind, and how platforms compare.
QR Menu Accessibility: The Guests Your QR Code Leaves Behind
Not every guest can scan a QR code. Who gets excluded, what it costs you, and the small changes that fix most of it without abandoning the format.
7 min readBest QR Code Menu Software in 2026: An Honest Comparison
Five QR menu platforms compared on what they actually do, with current pricing and the cases where each one — including ours — is the wrong choice.
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