The public menu page
What this covers
What a guest sees when they scan, and the features worth knowing about because they answer questions your staff would otherwise field.
The page
Your menu at /menu/your-restaurant, built for a phone: your logo and branding at the
top, a tab bar of your categories, and the items as cards with a photo, description, badges and
price.
Tapping an item with choices opens the options window. See Option groups and choices.
Search
Guests can type to find something instead of scrolling. On a long menu this is the difference between a guest finding your one vegan main and giving up.
The filter — and its two halves
The filter works in two directions, which is worth understanding:
- Tags include. Ticking vegan shows only vegan items.
- Allergens exclude. Ticking nuts hides everything containing nuts.
So a guest can ask for "vegetarian, without dairy" and get exactly that — but only if your items are tagged and their allergens filled in. An item with nothing entered is never filtered out, which means it appears in a "no nuts" list whether or not it contains nuts. See Item details: allergens, tags and images.
Language
If you offer other languages, there is a switcher. The guest reads in theirs; you carry on in yours. See Auto-translating your menu.
Two versions of the same page
| Reached by | What it does |
|---|---|
| Your general menu code, or a link you share | Read the menu. Search, filter and language all work. |
| A table's code | The same menu, plus ordering and the call-waiter and request-bill buttons if your plan includes them. |
It can be found on Google
The browse version of your menu is a real web page that search engines can index, with your dishes marked up so they can be understood as a menu. That means "restaurant name menu" can lead people straight to it — a genuine advantage over a PDF or a photo of a chalkboard.
The at-table version is deliberately kept out of search results, since it is meant for the person sitting at the table.
Worth doing once
Open the page on your own phone, in daylight, and read it as a guest would. Most menus have one category too many, one description too long, and one dish nobody can find. Ten minutes with a phone finds all three.