Digital menu for hotels

How many digital menus does a hotel need?

One per outlet whose dishes, prices or hours differ: typically the restaurant, the bar, room service and breakfast, and perhaps a pool or spa menu. Each menu gets its own link and QR code, so the code in the room opens room service and the code on the bar opens the drinks list.

Where should hotels place menu QR codes?

In each room on the desk card or beside the room-service phone, on restaurant and bar tables, at the breakfast entrance and by the pool. Add a line saying which menu the code opens and when that outlet is open, and keep printed menus at reception for guests who ask.

Can international guests read the menu?

Set the menu to any of 20 languages, including right-to-left Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu and Persian, so text direction is right; built-in labels such as Search and Sold out are translated into 20 of them. Dish names and descriptions appear exactly as you write them, so many hotels write them in their main guest language or create one menu per language.

Can guests order room service from the QR menu?

Not through Digital Menu, which is view-only: guests call the room-service number shown on the menu. Hotels that want guests to order and pay from their own phone can use Menuthere's paid ordering product, made by the same company as Digital Menu.

How do hotels keep menus current?

Whoever manages a menu opens its private edit link, changes dishes, prices or hours and saves; every code in every room shows the update at once. Share edit links only with the people who should change menus, and store them in your team's password manager.

• Hours per outlet. Each menu has its own weekly hours and time zone, and shows whether that outlet is open now.

• Seasonal changes. Swap the menu behind the code; the cards in the rooms stay put.

• Sold-out dishes. Switch a dish off when the kitchen runs out.