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Menu costs for a restaurant

By Tuğberk Can ÖzenPublished 5 November 20262 min read

TL;DRMenu costs, when you mean the software and not the food on the plate, are $29 a month or $199 a year per venue. Both prices include the same features. The yearly price is $149 less than paying twelve months at the monthly price. Preview is free. You pay when you publish.

What the bill includes

One plan covers one venue and every menu it runs: breakfast, lunch, dinner, the wine list, and the languages you write. Publishing gives you a public address, a QR code as PNG or SVG, print PDFs from that same menu, a page for each dish, staff access for sold-out marks, and schedules. There is no setup fee and no charge per scan or per visit.

Building the menu and opening the preview on a phone is free, with no card. There is no trial period and no free published menu. A code from the QR generator is free and is not this plan. The same numbers, spelled out as a QR menu, are on QR code menu price and on pricing.

Menu costs are not food cost

Plate cost is what the kitchen spends on one dish. Menu price is what the guest pays. Those two numbers are the food cost calculator and the menu pricing method. They are not the subscription. A cheap plate can still sit on software you do not need, and an expensive subscription does not fix a recipe.

Use this page for the software bill. Use the calculator when the question is whether the dish earns its place. Do not add the two figures and call the sum a menu cost. They are different decisions.

How you stop paying

Cancel in the panel. The menu stays up until the end of the period you already paid for, and it does not renew. Hosting on our address is included. A subdomain you already own is included too. The plan does not register a new .com for you. A platform priced for online ordering is a different bill: this product does not take orders. Comparisons we have written start at Popmenu alternatives.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free menu plan?

Preview is free. A published menu, its QR code and a PDF of your dishes are $29 a month or $199 a year. There is no free published menu.

Do you charge per scan?

No. Guests can open the menu as often as they like. The price is per venue, not per visit.

Does the yearly plan drop features?

No. Monthly and yearly include the same features. Yearly costs $199, which is $149 less than twelve monthly payments.

About the author

Tuğberk Can Özen

Founder of DigitalMenuKit

Preview is free. Publishing is $29 a month.

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