Feature · Digital menu

Your restaurant's menu,
always up to date everywhere

Create the menu once in Plathea and bring it to the table with a QR code, online with an interactive web menu and — soon — in augmented reality. One source, all channels aligned.

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PDF menu preview
Trattoria da Marco
ANTIPASTI
Tartare di manzo€14
Battuta al coltello, nocciole, senape
Burrata e alici€12
PRIMI
Tagliolini al tartufo€18
Menu QR
Scan for the menu
Customisation
FontPlayfair Display
Language🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 +17
Colours
Why it matters

The menu changes constantly. Keeping it aligned everywhere is a job in itself.

Seasons, availability, prices: a restaurant's menu never stands still. Updating it by hand across paper and different channels means errors and versions that don't match. With Plathea you update it in one place and it stays consistent everywhere.

How it works in Plathea

Create it once, use it everywhere

Multiple menus, always ready
Create as many menus as you want — lunch, dinner, seasonal, fixed-price tasting, wine list — and activate or deactivate them whenever you want. Keep all your menus for the year saved and switch them on at the right time, without rebuilding them.
Dishes with photos, prices and allergens
Every dish has a category, price, photo, allergens and ingredients linked to the inventory for food cost. You organise courses into custom categories, in the order you prefer.
QR code on the table → the menu PDF
For each menu you generate a QR code to place on the tables: the customer scans it and opens the menu PDF. You customise the QR colours to match your brand, with an accessibility check (WCAG) that warns you whether they stay readable. Update the PDF and the QR always points to the latest version — you never reprint it.
Public interactive web menu
On the Plathea platform customers browse the menu online with photos, descriptions, prices and allergen details, with search and category filters. Always up to date.
Beverages in separate lists
Beverages are managed in custom groups — wine list, cocktails, coffee bar, craft beers — separate from ingredients. Priced by bottle or by glass, with drink cost calculated like food cost.
Multilingual menu, automatically
Dish descriptions and details are translated automatically into the customer's language. Visitors from abroad read your menu in their own language, with no manual translation on your part.
Printable, customisable PDF
Plathea generates printable menu versions: a staff version with food cost and margins for internal use, and a customer version — simple or, with the Pro plan, with fully customisable graphics (background, colours, categories).
The PDF menu

Create your restaurant's PDF menu in minutes

No hours lost on design tools, no designer to call every time. In Plathea the printable menu comes from your dishes: choose, arrange, download the PDF. And when you change a dish or launch the daily menu — which lasts only a few hours — you update and reprint on the spot.

Designer-level customization, without a designer: 20+ professional fonts, colours and backgrounds (solid, gradient or image), cover and closing page, cover charge, page numbers and a built-in QR code with a readability check (WCAG). All in your brand.

And what others don't have
Automatic translation
The printed menu translated into many languages, automatically — not just the digital one.
Braille version
You generate the menu PDF in Braille, ready for dedicated printing: an accessibility almost no one offers.
Allergens and compliance
Allergen page and a note for blast-chilled or frozen products, to always stay compliant.
Staff version with food cost
An internal PDF with food cost and margins to set prices and optimise the menu.
A feature, not a company

For others the digital menu is the whole company. For Plathea it's a feature.

There are tools that do only the QR, only the digital menu or only the PDF. Limiting. In Plathea the menu is already inside a complete management system: connected to food cost, inventory, reservations and website. You create it once and it lives on every channel — paper, web and app.

Menu-only software vs Plathea

A feature, inside a complete system

Menu / QR only softwarePlathea
What it isQR / digital menu toolComplete restaurant management system
Printable PDF menuAbsent or basic templateProfessional PDF: fonts, colours, cover, QR
Menu translationRarelyAutomatic, even on the printed PDF
Allergens and complianceOn youAllergen page + frozen note included
Connected toOnly the menuFood cost, inventory, reservations, website
ResultAnother softwareOne single system
Coming soon

And we're adding more

On Plathea's roadmap there is the menu in augmented reality: the customer points at the menu and sees the dishes.

Ordering with takeaway and delivery, on the other hand, is already available with the Cash register add-on →

One of 28+ features

And the menu is only the beginning

Food cost, inventory, reservations, website, staff, marketing, analytics: the menu is one of the functions of an all-in-one management system, already connected to everything else.

Food costReservationsWebsiteAll features
Connected to the system

One source for everything

The menu isn't an island: dishes are linked to the inventory and food cost, beverages to their drink cost. You update once and the data stays consistent across the system, the PDF and the web menu.

The digital menu and QR code are included in every Plathea plan, from Essential at €50/month. Fully customisable PDF graphics are available from the Pro plan. Before the plans, the restaurant profile is free and never expires: the public page with details, menu, opening hours and photos asks for no credit card.

FAQ

Digital menu questions

What does the customer see when they scan the QR code?

The QR code opens the menu PDF you generated or uploaded. Every time you update the PDF, the QR automatically points to the latest version: you don't need to print a new QR for every change.

Is the online menu visible to everyone?

Yes. Besides the PDF via QR, your menu is available as an interactive web menu on the Plathea platform, with photos, allergens, search and beverages — viewable by customers.

Can I have multiple menus active at once?

Yes. You can create and activate as many menus as you want — lunch, dinner, seasonal, tasting, wine list — each with its own QR code and PDF. You keep them saved and switch them on when needed.

How do I manage wines, cocktails and the coffee bar?

Beverages have dedicated management, with custom groups you create (wine list, cocktails, coffee bar, beers…). You can price them by bottle or by glass, with drink cost calculated automatically.

Is the menu available in multiple languages?

Yes. Dish descriptions and details are translated automatically into the customer's language, so visitors from abroad read the menu in their own language.

Bring your menu to every channel

Your menu is on your public page from the free profile. QR, custom PDF and translations from the Essential plan.

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All Plathea featuresDocumentation: how to create the menu
Plathea is a product of Promethea S.r.l. — Trieste, Italy.