For restaurants, cafés and pubs
Keep your paper menu. Change what’s behind the code.
Put one code on the printed menu, the table card or the window. Change today’s specials, prices and allergen notes on a menu page you edit from your phone, and every printed copy follows. Nothing to reprint.
From $7 a month for 10 codes kept live, or $59 a year.
Prices are in US dollars and do not include sales tax or VAT; where tax applies, Paddle adds it at checkout and shows the total before you pay.
Why paper stays
Diners still reach for the paper menu
A QR code menu works best beside the paper one, not instead of it. The code carries what changes; the printed menu carries everything else.
7,500
people surveyed by Lightspeed in 2024, 1,000 of them in the UK. It found a strong preference for physical menus
.
Source: Lightspeed, 2024 state of the UK hospitality industry, published ; read .
35%
of the people Lightspeed asked specifically request a physical menu when offered a QR code
by their server.
Source: Lightspeed, 2024 state of the UK hospitality industry, published ; read .
Behind the code
What changes goes online; the rest stays printed
One menu page holds all of it. Edit it from your phone between services.
Today’s specials
The soup, the fish, what is left of the cake. Changed in a minute, seen at the next scan.
Prices
Change a price on the page without reprinting a single menu.
Allergen notes
Keep allergen information beside each dish, with the paper or a member of staff as the other way to find it.
Hours and events
Christmas hours, quiz night, a closed kitchen on Monday.
Reviews
A code on the till or the bill that opens your Google review page, with its scans counted.
Allergens
Digital allergen information needs a non-digital way in
The law comes first: a food business must tell customers which of the 14 allergens its food contains, however it shows its menu. The Food Standards Agency’s best-practice guidance for England, Wales and Northern Ireland then lets a business give that information on paper or digitally. If it is digital, there should be another way to get it too.
The FSA’s guidance lists the 14 allergens that food businesses must tell consumers about
, and says the information must be accurate: This is a legal requirement
.
Source: Food Standards Agency, Allergen information for non-prepacked foods: best practice, published ; read .
The FSA’s guidance says that if a business gives allergen information digitally, they should have an alternative way of accessing the information
, for people who cannot use the digital version and as a backup if it fails.
Source: Food Standards Agency, Allergen information for non-prepacked foods: best practice, published ; read .
So keep allergen information on the paper menu, or make sure staff can give it, as well as on the page behind the code. The duty to give the information is law; how to give it digitally is best practice: You are not required by law to follow best practice guidance.
It is not legal advice, and neither is this page: your local authority’s food safety team can tell you what applies to you. Using QRVane does not make a business compliant with anything on its own.
What it costs
One menu page is one code
A menu page is reached through a code, so a café with a menu page, a drinks list and a specials board uses three of the codes its plan keeps live. While the workspace subscribes, its plan keeps codes live past their first 14 days: Starter 10, Pro 50 and Business 250.
Starter, $7 a month
10 codes kept live, or $59 a year. If you stop paying: When a subscription ends, because a payment fails, a payment is refunded or a cancelled plan reaches the end of its paid period, the codes it kept live keep working for 14 more days; then people who scan them see a QRVane page instead, unless the workspace subscribes again.
Prices are in US dollars and do not include sales tax or VAT; where tax applies, Paddle adds it at checkout and shows the total before you pay.
Every plan and limitHonestly
When you don’t need us
Some venues are better off with something else, and we would rather say so.
You already edit a menu page on your website
Then a QR code that holds that page’s address does the job, and you change the page instead. A QRVane code adds scan counts, and lets you point the printed code at a different page later.
You want people to order and pay from the table
We do not take orders. Square’s UK page says that with its self-serve ordering, their orders will be sent to your staff automatically as a digital ticket
.
Source: Square, QR code menu; read .
Before you reprint the menus: how to change where a QR code points.
FAQ
Questions from restaurants
Do I have to give up paper menus?
No, and we would not want you to. Keep the printed menu on the table and put the code on it for what changes: today’s specials, prices and allergen notes.
Can I change prices without reprinting?
Yes. Edit the menu page from your phone and the next person who scans sees it. The code on the paper stays the same.
What if I already have a menu page on my own website?
Then you may not need us. If you can already edit that page yourself, a QR code that holds its address does the job, and you change the page instead. A QRVane code adds scan counts, and lets you point the printed code at a different page later.
How many codes does one restaurant need?
One code can go on every table. If you want to see which menus people open, give the food menu, the drinks list and the specials board a code each, and you will see the scans for each one. A code for your Google review page is one more: that is four, inside Starter's 10.
What does a menu code cost?
Every code works for 14 days from the moment it is made. After that, unless its workspace has a plan with room for it, people who scan it see a QRVane page instead of the destination. Plans are monthly or yearly subscriptions, from $7 a month or $59 a year before tax.
What do diners see if I stop paying?
When a subscription ends, because a payment fails, a payment is refunded or a cancelled plan reaches the end of its paid period, the codes it kept live keep working for 14 more days; then people who scan them see a QRVane page instead, unless the workspace subscribes again. Once a code stops, a scan shows a plain QRVane page that says the code's 14-day free period has ended, or that its owner's plan has ended, with a line for its owner to sign in and subscribe. There is no fake error and no advert. Subscribing brings back, at once, every code the plan keeps live.
What happens to my account if I leave?
A code's scans can be exported as CSV at every stage: in its first 14 days, in a grace period and after it stops. When you delete your account, it is locked at once and deleted for good 30 days later.
How many codes can a group of restaurants keep live?
Up to 250 on Business, the largest plan. A sign-in code of 4 digits, sent to one address, opens the workspace that holds them all.
Put the specials behind the code
Design a code, give an email address, and type the 4-digit code we send to it. There is no password and nothing to set up. The code belongs to that address, so only someone who can read that inbox can change it, see its scans or buy a plan that keeps it live.