Designing your menu page
What this covers
Making the menu page look like your restaurant. Needs the manage-settings permission.
Everything here is at Property Settings → Public Pages Design
(/settings/public-pages), on the Menu tab.
Two layers: shared, then menu-specific
Your logo, hero image or colour, tagline, intro text, accent colour and social links are shared across all three of your guest-facing pages — booking, events and menu. Set them once and they appear on all three. See Branding your public pages.
The Menu tab is for what only the menu has: the colours of the page itself, the tabs and the item cards.
What you can set
| Area | Controls |
|---|---|
| Page background | A colour, or an image you upload — tiled or covering the screen. |
| Header bar | Background and text colour of the sticky bar at the top. |
| Category tabs | Text colour, and the colour of the tab currently selected. |
| Category headings | The colour of each section heading. |
| Item cards | Background, border, dish name, description, price, and the allergen and tag badges. |
| Buttons | The order button, the cart badge, and the call-waiter and request-bill buttons if you use them. |
Advice worth more than the colour picker
- Contrast beats brand. Your guest is reading a phone in low light, possibly without their glasses. Dark text on a light card, or the reverse. Grey on grey looks lovely on your monitor and is unreadable at the table.
- Be careful with background images. A photograph behind text is the fastest way to make a menu hard to read. If you use one, keep it subtle.
- Two colours is plenty — one for the page, one for accents. Menus that use six look like a website from 2004.
- Make the badges quiet. Allergen and tag badges appear on nearly every item; if they are loud they overwhelm the dish names.
- Match the room, not the logo. A dark room usually wants a dark menu.
Check it on a real phone
Not the preview on your laptop. Open your own menu on your phone, at a table, at the light level your guests will have. Then check it in daylight on the terrace. Colour choices that work in one very often fail in the other.
If in doubt, keep it plain. A clean, readable menu makes a better impression than a heavily styled one nobody can read.