OpenFood For restaurants

Your menu, in every language your diners speak

Publish once and every guest reads it in their own language, with allergens and diets they can filter on. Free, on an open format, with a QR code for the tables.

Why restaurants use it

One menu, every language

Write your menu once in the language your kitchen thinks in. Diners read it in theirs — the site itself in eighteen languages, and your dishes translated on demand into whatever they are reading in.

A table card worth printing

Generate a QR card with your logo in the middle, in colour or black and white, with a multilingual frame. Download it as a PNG at print resolution and take it to a printer.

Change it whenever you like

Edit a price, mark a dish sold out, add a seasonal special — publish, and every table's QR points at the new version. No reprinting.

Your menu, in a format you own

Everything is stored as OpenFood, an open published format. Export the whole menu as a file whenever you want, and take it anywhere.

Getting started

Most restaurants are publishing within an afternoon. The slowest part is typing the menu in, and there is a shortcut for that.

  1. Find your restaurant, or add it

    Search for it first — many places are already listed from open map data, waiting to be claimed. If it is not there, add it in a couple of minutes.

  2. Claim the page

    Tell us it is yours. If your email is on the restaurant's own domain that is automatic; otherwise a moderator checks it by hand, which usually takes a day.

  3. Get your menu in

    Type it in, import an OpenFood file, or use the import assistant: point it at your existing menu page or a photo of the printed one, and review what it read before anything is saved.

  4. Publish and print

    Publishing puts you on the map and fills in the English your listing is found by. Then design your table card and send it to the printer.

What it costs

Free

Publishing your menu is free, with no trial, no card and no limit on how many diners read it. That is not an introductory offer — it is what this is for.

Table booking, takeaway orders, online payments and automatic menu translation are on the roadmap as paid extras. Publishing your menu stays free, always.

Questions owners ask

Do my diners need to install anything?

No. They point a camera at the code and a web page opens. There is no app and no account, and it works on any phone with a browser.

Someone else edited my restaurant's page. How?

Listings nobody has claimed can be improved by the community, which is how a restaurant that has never been here can still have a useful page. Once you claim yours, only you and the people you invite can change it, and suggestions come to you to accept or reject.

What happens if I want to leave?

Export your menu as a file — it is an open format, so it is readable without us — and hand the restaurant back or delete the account. Nothing is locked in and nothing is held back.

Ready when you are

Find your restaurant, claim it, and have a QR code on the tables this week.