With Scanqur table ordering, each table gets its own QR code. Guests browse the menu and order the moment they decide, no waving for attention, no app to install. Orders arrive in your dashboard tagged with the table number, ready to prepare.
Brasserie Onze
Table 7 · Order sent
A guest decides on a second drink, looks around for a server, doesn’t catch an eye, and gives up. Multiply that by every table on a busy Friday: unordered rounds, delayed starts because menus arrived late, tables turning slowly because every step waits for a staff member to be free. None of this is anyone’s fault, it is the physics of a few people serving many tables.
Table ordering removes the bottleneck at its source. The guest orders at the exact moment of decision, from their own phone, and the order travels instantly to you. Staff stop being messengers and spend their time on what actually needs a human: welcoming, advising, serving, checking in.
Each table displays its own labeled QR code, generated by Scanqur. A guest scans it, gets your full menu (photos, descriptions, languages) and places an order that arrives tagged "Table 7". No app download, no account, no card forced online: the guest experience is just your menu plus an order button.
Table ordering fits any setting where guests sit and staff walk:
Drinks are the highest-margin items on the menu, and they are exactly what guests give up on when nobody comes. Impulse dies in about ninety seconds.
Every trip to take an order is a trip not spent serving, upselling or turning a table. During a rush, order-taking is where the team drowns first.
Guest to notepad to kitchen is a game of telephone. "No onions" gets lost, table numbers get swapped, and the remake comes out of your margin.
Generate labeled codes for every table and export them as one print-ready PDF. Twenty tables set up in one afternoon.
Each order lands in your live dashboard with its table number, no deciphering handwriting, no asking who ordered what.
Photos, descriptions and languages are right there at the decision moment. Guests reliably order more when browsing is effortless.
With Scanqur’s team roles, kitchen staff see incoming orders while waiters manage their floor, everyone sees exactly what they need.
No tablets to buy, no per-order fees. Your existing phones and the dashboard are the whole system.
Prices current, sold-out items hidden, bestsellers photographed. The menu is about to become your busiest waiter, dress it accordingly.
Switch it on in your Scanqur dashboard and set your table count. Ordering appears on your menu for guests who scan a table code.
Export the bulk PDF of labeled codes, Table 1 through Table N, styled to your brand, and print them as tents or stickers.
Orders appear in the dashboard; someone owns watching it during service. Waiters deliver and check in rather than transcribe. One short pre-shift briefing is enough.
Tip: Run the first service with table ordering alongside normal service, not instead of it. Guests migrate on their own once they see neighbours ordering first.
Sit where guests sit, scan, order, and watch it arrive. Fix anything awkward, code too small, category order wrong, before Friday does it for you.
Keep human contact in the loop
Greet every table and check in after the first dishes land. Table ordering removes waiting, not hospitality, the tech takes the order, your team makes the evening.
Assign an orders owner per shift
One person watches the incoming feed and dispatches. Shared vaguely, orders get seen by everyone and owned by no one.
Use photos on high-margin items
The dessert a waiter forgets to mention sells itself with a good photo at the moment the table feels like one more thing.
Mark items sold out in real time
The kitchen 86’ing a dish should reach the menu in seconds, that is the difference between a disappointed table and a seamless one.
Don’t hide the codes
A code tucked behind the napkin holder doesn’t exist. Table tents or corner stickers, visible at first glance.
Don’t remove menus and staff on day one
Table ordering is an option, not an ultimatum. Guests who want to order from a person always should be able to.
Don’t ignore the order feed during the rush
A guest who orders digitally expects the same speed as one who ordered aloud. Late acknowledgment breaks the magic exactly when it matters most.
Omar’s café has a 14-table terrace across a narrow street from the counter, lovely for guests, brutal for staff. In summer, one waiter crossed that street a few hundred times a day, and Omar knew from the empty glasses that refills were being given up on, not declined.
He set up Scanqur table ordering over a weekend: menu polished, ordering enabled, 14 labeled codes printed as matte table cards. The team briefing took ten minutes; the waiter now crosses the street to deliver, not to ask.
The change showed up first in drinks: second and third rounds that used to evaporate now arrive as orders thirty seconds after glasses empty. Guests linger longer, ordering feels effortless, so staying feels easy, and on rush days the terrace runs calm instead of frantic.
His waiter’s verdict after week one: "I walk the same amount, but every trip has a purpose now."
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Table ordering connects tightly with these Scanqur features.
Customers build a cart on your menu and send the order to your WhatsApp, structured, pre-filled and commission-free.
Read articleComplete or cancel with a reason, keep every order on file, and read revenue, average order value and cancellation rate monthly.
Read articleDesign a QR code that matches your brand and export every table’s labeled code in one print-ready PDF.
Read articlePrint your table codes, switch on ordering, and let the second rounds start arriving. Scanqur table ordering is free to start.
Restaurants, cafés and lounges run their dine-in orders through Scanqur daily.