Menus and menu cards with allergens
Free extension
Create menu cards and set menus from your recipes, with automatic allergens, ingredients and nutrition, and publish them with a public view, QR code and PDF.
What it is for
If you sell unpacked food (in a café, a bakery with a tasting area, ready meals or catering), you have to give the allergen information for every dish. Keeping an allergen menu up to date by hand every time a recipe changes is easy to forget.
With Menus you build a menu card or a set menu by choosing recipes you already have in Recipok: the allergens, ingredients and nutrition information come automatically from each recipe. You publish it in a public view for the customer's phone (for example, behind a QR code on the table or the counter) and download it as a PDF to print.
Before you start
- Switch on the extension: in Extensions, look for Menus and click Enable for free. Only the account owner can switch on modules. See Extensions.
- Have the recipes for the dishes with their allergens and traces checked and, if you are going to show prices, their selling price.
- Fill in the company details and logo in Configuration › General Data.
Creating a menu card or a set menu
Go to the Menus section
In the side menu, Menus › Menu cards or Menus. Click New à la carte menu or New set menu, type the name and click Confirm. The editor opens.
General information
Name, Subtitle, Header text and Footer text (for example “VAT included” or “Ask our staff if you have any allergies”). On a menu card, the Global price (optional); on a set menu, the Menu price.
Sections and dishes
Click Add section and give it a title (“Starters”, “Cakes”, “Pastries”). Inside it, Add dish and search for the recipe. For each dish you can change the Visible name, add a Description and the Price, and show its Image.
Design and style
Background, Text and Accent colours, Typography, Font size, inner margin and Background image.
Save and publish
Click Save and switch on Publish. Public view shows you the menu as the customer will see it.
| Name | Dishes | Visibility | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counter menu | 14 | 1Allergens Prices Ingredients Nutritional facts | 2Public view PDF | |
| Made-to-order cakes menu | 9 | Allergens Prices Ingredients Nutritional facts | Public view PDF |
- 1Visibility: click each tag to show or hide allergens, nutrition information, prices and ingredients on that menu.
- 2Public view and PDF: the page for the customer's phone and the document to print.
Public view, QR code and PDF
- Visibility: in the list, each menu has its Allergens, Nutritional facts, Prices and Ingredients switches. Decide what the customer sees without opening the editor.
- Status: the switch publishes or withdraws the menu instantly.
- Public view: a page with its own address that looks good on a phone. It shows allergens with icons and, if you switch it on, the nutrition information of each dish. Put that address behind a QR code on the table, the counter or the display case.
- PDF: the menu card or set menu ready to print. The set menu PDF includes the dishes with their ingredients, allergens and nutrition information.
The QR code always points to the same address. When you change a recipe, the customer sees the updated menu without you having to print anything new.
For unpacked food you must give information on the 14 allergens. A published allergen menu, in view of the customer, meets that obligation; check that every recipe has its allergens and traces complete. More in Allergen labelling.
Tips
- Use the Visible name for the commercial name of the dish (“Our house cheesecake”) without changing the recipe name.
- If your plan has a menu limit, when you reach it you will see the warning You have reached the menu limit of your plan. Delete the ones you do not use or upgrade your plan.
- For a counter without a screen, combine the menu with display labels.