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Sharing your menu

What this is for​

Once your menu is built, there are three ways to put it in front of people, and you don't maintain them separately. Change a price once and all three follow.

Your customer ordering site shows your live menu to anyone with the address — no app, no sign-in. Guests can browse it, and depending on your settings, order from it.

Use the link:

  • in your social media profiles,
  • on your Google listing,
  • in email replies to booking enquiries,
  • anywhere a printed menu would go out of date.

As a printable PDF​

Restodesk generates a clean A4 portrait PDF of your menu, laid out by category with variations listed under each dish.

Only available items are included, and any menu with no items in it is left out. That means the PDF reflects what you're actually selling today rather than everything you've ever entered — so generate it fresh rather than reusing last month's file.

Useful for printing table menus, sending to a function client, or attaching to an email.

As a code on the table​

A QR code per table takes a guest straight to your menu on their phone, already knowing which table they're at. See QR codes for tables.

Keeping it accurate​

The point of all three sharing routes being generated from the same menu is that they can't drift apart — but only if you keep the source right:

  • Sold out? Set the item to unavailable rather than deleting it. It vanishes from the web menu and the next PDF, and comes back with one switch.
  • Not for the public? Turn off Show on Customer Site on items you sell in-house but don't want listed — staff meals, wholesale lines, off-menu specials.
  • Photos and descriptions do real work here. They're barely used on the POS but they're most of what a guest sees.

Good to know​

  • The PDF reads from the branch you're working in.
  • Item order in all three follows Menu › Menu Organizer.
  • Guests see your restaurant name and logo from your restaurant settings, not a separate set.

Next​

Your menu is built. Next comes the room it's served in — areas and floors.