A free QR menu for a beach club: read it from the sunbed

They are going to pick up the phone they have not put down since the airport, scan the code on the table, and read it in their own words.

What does the guest read on the sunbed?

A code on the sunbed, one at the bar, one on the entrance board. The guest scans it and the menu opens: the kitchen list, the drinks list, prices, allergens, and what is open right now.

No app to install. That is the whole argument on a beach: sand, salt water, a phone at half battery and no intention of installing anything before lunch.

Can guests read the menu in their own language?

We translate your menu into 82 languages automatically. Each guest reads the list in the language their phone is set to, so the same terrace serves a dozen nationalities without a dozen printed lists.

You keep one list, and you change it once. When the kitchen runs out of the grilled fish at one in the afternoon, you take it off, and every language loses it in the same second.

Local names deserve your own eyes once. A fish that is called one thing in the harbour and another on the menu, a cocktail with a name from another language: correct those by hand and your correction is what the guest reads next time.

What belongs on a beach club list?

• The kitchen list, with prices and photographs. A photograph of the actual plate, taken in daylight, is what a guest on a sunbed decides from.
• The drinks list, and the price of a jug of fruit, because it is the first question of the afternoon.
• Allergens, on every item that can carry one: nuts, shellfish, gluten, dairy, and anything with egg or soy. Your guests can filter the whole list by allergen and read what is left, instead of explaining themselves across a busy bar in a language they do not have.
• What is open now, and until when. The kitchen, the bar, the last table, the toilets. On a beach club terrace this changes by the hour and nobody on a sunbed can see it.
• Sunbeds and positions, if you mark them out. A guest choosing where to sit wants to know which row is free before they carry a towel across hot sand.
• Your address and your hours for the season, because a guest came back yesterday and the gate is not where it was.

Photographs and short videos are not capped, so the menu can hold the plate of the day, the set lunch and a cocktail of the week without any of them pushing the rest out.

Can the menu run on a board at the entrance?

The same menu drives a screen at the entrance. Set the hours for each part of the day and the board shows what is open now, on your own clock. In high season, that board is what a guest reads from the road before deciding to come in at all.

You can see how many guests scan each screen, today and in total, so you know whether the one by the bar is doing any work.

What happens to the code when the season changes?

A beach club's menu is seasonal: the kitchen, the drinks and the hours are different in June and in September. Your printed codes stay on the sunbeds and in the sand the whole time, because every code points at a link you control. You change the list behind it as often as the season needs, and no sticker comes off a table in the wind.

What does it cost?

No monthly fee, and nothing is metered. A club with four hundred sunbeds on a full Saturday and a quiet Tuesday in April pay the same.

The free plan includes the menu, the translations, every QR code, unlimited photographs and videos, unlimited menus and locations, your own web page where Google can find you, and menu analytics that show what gets read, at what hour, and in which language. That last one tells you which languages your terrace actually needs.

Plus is one yearly price. It adds sharper photographs and video with their sound, your logo when a guest shares your page, and a higher place on the map when someone looks for somewhere near them. It also keeps the AI Editor available at your busiest moments, when the free version is on shared capacity and can take a few minutes. The current price is on the pricing page, and it is optional.

How do you set it up before the season?

1. Photograph your current lists, whatever they are printed on.
2. Let the AI build the menu, then check every price and every allergen line. This is the step that matters, and it takes twenty minutes.
3. Print the codes for the sunbeds, the bar and the entrance board. They work all season.
4. Keep it current with one sentence. Type what you want to change and the AI Editor changes every line that matches, shows you what it will do, and saves nothing until you approve it.

What should you check before you settle on one?

The language count on the front of a box does not mean the same thing in every app: one counts the languages in its buttons, another counts only what the most expensive plan includes. We read what four other apps say about their own translation on their own sites in what a QR menu app's language number actually means, and our head-to-head pages and per-country comparisons are on the compare page.