How to make a multilingual QR menu

That is what a multilingual QR menu does. One menu, one printed code per position, and every guest sees the food and drink in their own words.

Snap a photo, not a spreadsheet

Take a photo of the paper menu. If the paper is gone, a clean photo of the screen works almost as well. The dishes, prices and descriptions come across into a live menu in about thirty seconds.

You do not type a thing. When a price changes or a special goes on, you change it once and the change follows into every language.

The code picks the language, not you

The guest's phone already knows what language it is set to, so the menu opens in that one. A visitor from Osaka sees Japanese, the couple from Munich see German, and you did not touch anything. There are 82 languages available, and the guest can switch from the menu itself if they want a different one.

That is the whole point of the setup. You write the menu once. The reading happens on the guest's phone.

What gets translated

Everything the guest needs to choose and order:

• The dish names and the descriptions under them.
• The prices, which stay in step when you change them.
• The allergen and dietary labels, so a guest with an allergy can check for themselves.
• The section headings, so "starters" is not the only English word on the page.

The words around the menu, like the buttons and the checkout, are a separate thing. A big number of interface languages next to a small menu number is a marketing number, not a menu.

Where a human look earns its keep

Most of the translation is automatic and good enough, because a menu's vocabulary is short and repeated. Two things are worth a human look:

• A local speciality whose name is the dish. The translation will get the ingredients right and miss the point.
• Anything an allergy depends on. One wrong word on an allergen line is a cost you cannot accept.

Print one code per position

Print the code once per position. A table, a sunbed, a pitch, a chair at the counter. Stick it on the table or hang it by the entrance. The same code works on a screen too, so the TV menu board and the page a guest reads stay in step.

Nothing about the code depends on the language. You print it once and it serves every guest in theirs.

Keep it current from one place

Change a price, add a dish, remove a sold-out item: it is one edit, and the change reaches every code and every language at once. You never reprint a menu because the prices moved.

What it costs

Nothing monthly. Translation is part of the menu, included on the free plan. You only pay when you take a payment, on top of the payment provider's own fee. A small food truck and a hotel with three outlets pay the same way: only on what they sell.

The short version

One menu, 82 languages, one code per position, built from a photo. Your tourists read it, order more of it, and your team never has to translate a thing.