A QR code menu for your café, made with AI
Printed menus go out of date: prices change, dishes run out, the seasonal specials come and go. A QR code on the table that opens a menu page solves this. Guests scan it with their phone camera, and you change a price in a minute instead of reprinting.
What the menu page needs
- categories with quick links at the top: Breakfast, Mains, Drinks;
- for each item: the name, a short description and the price;
- allergens and tags such as vegan or gluten-free;
- a second language, if you have tourists;
- opening hours, address and phone at the bottom.
Large text, strong contrast, a fast load on a weak mobile connection. Not a PDF: a PDF menu is awkward to read on a phone, and aiput.site publishes web pages, not documents.
Keep the menu in a simple file
Write the menu in a text file or a spreadsheet: category, item, description, price. That file is your source. When something changes, you edit it, and the agent rebuilds the page from it.
The request
Make a mobile menu page for Café Lumen from menu.txt. Categories with sticky links at the top. Show allergens as small letters next to each dish, with a legend at the bottom. Dark green and cream, large text, no photos except the logo. Add an English/Spanish switch.
Make the QR code
The QR code should contain your site's address directly. An agent that runs on your computer can create it:
Make a QR code for the site's address as an SVG file, large and high-contrast.
An SVG stays sharp at any print size.
Be careful with "dynamic" QR codes from online generators. Many of them encode the generator's own short link, which then redirects to your menu. When a trial ends or a subscription lapses, the redirect stops — after the code is already printed on every table. A code that contains your address directly works for as long as your site does.
Change the prices
Edit menu.txt, or just tell the agent: "Cappuccino is now 2.80, remove the lemon tart." Then say "update the website". The address does not change, so the printed codes stay valid.
Test at the table
Print one code and scan it with several phones, iPhone and Android, on mobile data rather than your Wi-Fi. Check that the text is readable in the café's own light.