QR menus: what they are, the code on the table, and how to print it.

What it is.

A QR code is a printed link. A phone’s camera reads it and opens the page, with no app. Because the menu is a page, the dish of the day and the prices change without reprinting anything: whoever arrives next sees the new version.

The menu’s code and the table’s code.

Every Apronta page comes with four codes, on every plan: the page’s, the menu’s, the bookings’ and the links’. The menu’s is for reading: put it on the door, the counter or the table.

From the Pro plan, each table has its own code. Whoever sits there reads the menu and orders from it, without giving a phone number. The order appears at the counter, on a board built for the kitchen, and the bill stays with the table. Table orders are for eating in, only while you are open; delivery to an address is not built.

Printing it.

In the dashboard, each code comes as a card ready to print, A6 for a table or A4 for the door, in your page’s colours and at true size. Each table has its own A6 card, with the table’s name and the business’s.

Before printing many, print one and scan it with two different phones, in the room’s light. Put it where a phone reaches without anyone standing up.

The allergens still count.

A QR menu is a menu, and allergen law applies to it. In Italy a digital system needs written documentation behind it; in Ireland a QR code alone does not meet the rule. The allergens guide says what each country asks.^{1, 2}