QR Code Menu for Bars and Cocktail Bars
TL;DRThere is one bar design in the template library, and it is a cocktail list. A beer and wine bar can use the same layout. The sample is not a second product for each kind of bar, and publishing two thin pages for one sample would not help you. This page covers both: a spec-driven cocktail list, and a tap and bottle list that changes.
Open the cocktail bar. It is a fictional bar, Nocturne: a Negroni, a house drink, a mezcal drink, a martini and a gimlet. The prices are samples. Your list replaces them. The shared setup is a digital menu for restaurants.
A cocktail list
Lead with the name and the three or four ingredients a guest uses to decide. The story of the drink can be one short line. A spec sheet for the bartender does not belong on the guest's phone. If you want ABV, the dish has a place for alcohol. Use it when the number matters, not on every highball.
Group signatures and classics, or seasonal and the standing list. A seasonal section you can retire in March is more useful than a menu you reprint. Mark a drink sold out when a bottle runs out mid-service. The QR code on the table stays.
Sizes, such as a short pour and a large format for the table, are variants with their own prices. Do not write “MP” and hope. If the price depends on the night, the menu price is not ready to publish.
A beer, wine and spirits list
Use the same design and replace the cocktails. Taps in one section, bottles in the next, wine by the glass and by the bottle as variants on the wine. When a keg kicks, mark that tap sold out or swap the name and the price and publish. The tent on the table still scans.
Wine details the product can hold are producer, grapes, vintage and alcohol. Fill the ones you would say out loud. Leave the rest empty. An empty vintage field is better than a guess.
Happy hour is either a second menu on a schedule or a section you can live with all night. A schedule in the bar's time zone switches the page without a new code. A section that says “until 6” and is still on the menu at 9 is the failure mode. Pick one.
Low light and a printed list
The sample is a dark design with a square photo on one drink. In a dark room, test the type on a phone at the table, not on your laptop. If guests cannot read it, lighten the palette. The design is a starting point.
A short printed list still belongs on the bar for guests who will not scan. Export a counter card from the same drinks. The price stays in its own column. Leave the long tasting note off the card. It can stay on the phone.
Preview is free. The PDF is part of the paid plan, $29 a month or $199 a year per venue. See printable menus.
Publish the list you are actually pouring
Start from the cocktail bar design or import your current list. A PDF import stops at 150 items and still needs a human to check vintages and prices. Publish when a guest could order from it without asking what is real tonight.
The code does not change when the list does. Google does not update itself either. Paste the menu address into Google Business Profile if you want the listing to open this page. We do not sign in to Google. Ordering from the phone is not part of the product. If you need guests to close a tab in the QR code, look at a system built for that. The price comparison is what a QR code menu costs.
Food-led rooms have their own samples: burgers and the template guide.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a separate beer-bar template?
No. The bar sample is the cocktail list. Use that design and replace the drinks with taps, bottles or wine.
Can I show glass and bottle prices together?
Yes. Put them on the wine as variants, each with its own price.
Does the menu take drink orders?
No. Guests read the list. Your staff take the order.
Preview is free. Publishing is $29 a month.
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