Some guests want paper. Some tables have no signal. Scanqur turns the menu you already keep online into a print-ready PDF, with the same dishes, prices and order, and a QR code that leads back to the live version.
Café Luna
A5 · Classic · Color
An older regular, a table of tourists with no data plan, a terrace in bright sun: there are always guests who would rather hold a menu. Taking paper away from them is a bad trade. The trouble is keeping a printed version that agrees with the menu online.
Most restaurants that go digital keep an old Word or Canva file for print. The day a price changes, someone updates the online menu and forgets the file. A week later the paper and the screen disagree, and the guest notices before you do.
The Printable menu page reads your menu as it is saved in Scanqur and lays it out as a PDF: categories in your order, dishes with their descriptions and prices. You do not retype anything, and there is no separate file to keep up to date.
The PDF follows the same rules as your online menu:
None of these are dramatic. They just cost a little every week.
If the print file lives with a designer or an agency, every small change is an email and an invoice. So small changes wait, and the menu goes stale.
Online menu in one tool, print file in another. Every new dish is typed twice, and every typo appears in only one of them.
Printing a second language usually means a second layout. Most places skip it, and visitors get the menu they cannot read.
A short list of options, chosen so the result looks right without design work.
Minimal (one column, no fills, prints cleanly on any printer), Classic (two columns, dotted lines up to each price, your hours framed at the end) and Visual (dishes as cards, with their photo when photos are on).
A4 for a wall or a folder, A5 for a table card. Black and white is there for office printers and photocopies.
Add your menu’s QR code to the PDF. Guests who want photos, translations or today’s price scan it from the paper.
Choose which of your menu languages to print. Latin-alphabet languages, Arabic and Persian can be printed; other alphabets are greyed out for now.
The preview next to the options is drawn with the same layout as the PDF, page by page, so what you see is what prints.
You need a menu with at least one dish. Publishing it is only required for the QR code.
In your dashboard, open Printable menu, the last entry under Your menu. It is available on the free plan and on Pro.
Choose Minimal, Classic or Visual, then A4 or A5 and color or black and white. The preview updates as you change them.
Tip: A5 with Classic works well as a table card. Minimal in black and white is the safest choice for a cheap office printer.
If your menu has several languages, pick the one to print. Make one PDF per language if you want a French table card and an English one.
Turn on product photos if your dishes have them, the QR code to the online menu, and your opening hours and contact details, printed after the last dish.
Click Download the PDF. Print it yourself, send it to a print shop, or use the printing partners listed in your dashboard. When a price changes, edit the menu and download a new PDF.
Small choices that keep paper and screen in step.
Put the QR code on the paper
It turns the printed menu into a door to the live one: photos, other languages, today’s specials.
Reprint from Scanqur, not from an old file
Download a fresh PDF after each change. It takes a minute and the paper never contradicts the screen.
Date your print run in your head
Reprint after a price change, a new season or a supplier change. Keep the old copies for the recycling bin, not the tables.
Don’t link the QR code to the PDF
The PDF is for paper. On a phone, guests should land on the live menu, which searches, translates and stays current.
Don’t print photos on a weak printer
Photos eat ink and come out dark on office printers. Use the Visual design with photos for a print shop, Minimal or Classic otherwise.
Don’t laminate a menu you change weekly
Laminated menus feel permanent, so nobody reprints them. For a menu that moves, plain paper in a holder is easier to replace.
A fictional business, to show how the pieces fit together.
Julien runs a brasserie with a busy terrace. Inside, guests scan the table QR code. Outside, the sun makes phone screens hard to read, and his older regulars ask for a card anyway.
He keeps his menu in Scanqur and prints an A5 Classic card for the terrace, with the QR code in the corner for anyone who wants photos or the English version. On Mondays, when the weekly specials change, he edits the menu and downloads a new PDF before opening.
The paper and the screen now say the same thing. The only work left is pressing print.
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menu to keep up to date
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table cards for the terrace
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print files to edit by hand
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The printable menu is included in the free plan.