A QR code menu is now the default for modern restaurants, cafés and bars — but most of them stop at a static PDF. Poredai turns the same scan into a live digital restaurant menu, a shared table cart and a full contactless ordering system. No app, no hardware, no per-order fees.
A QR code menu is a digital restaurant menu that guests open by scanning a QR code on the table. The camera app on any modern phone recognises the QR, opens a URL, and the menu loads in the browser — no app to download, no PIN to enter, no waiting on the waitress to bring a folder.
The term contactless menu means the same thing. It went mainstream during COVID as a hygiene measure and stayed because guests preferred it: prices are always current, dishes have photos, translations are one tap away, and specials appear the moment the kitchen lists them.
A basic QR code menu is just a link to a PDF. A restaurant ordering system built around the same scan — like Poredai — goes further: it opens a shared table cart, lets a whole table order together in rounds, and hands each round to the waitress in one more scan.
A modern QR code menu for restaurants is not just a menu — it's the surface where the whole first half of service happens. Here's what Poredai adds to a plain contactless menu.
Guests scan the QR code on the napkin or table tent and land on your live restaurant menu in the browser — no app, no login.
Every guest at the table adds items from their own phone. The QR menu keeps the cart in sync so nobody double-orders the same dish.
When the table is ready, the waitress scans a single QR and the round hits the pass. A QR code menu with real ordering, not just a PDF.
Your colours, fonts, logo and custom domain. Guests see your restaurant, not a generic menu app.
Realtime on modern edge infrastructure. Guest orders queue offline and sync when signal returns.
86 an item, change a price, add a special — the digital menu updates on every phone in the room instantly.
Most "QR menu" tools give you a link to a PDF. Fine for reading, useless for ordering. Here's how a paper menu, a PDF QR menu, and Poredai compare on the things that actually matter mid-service.
| Paper menu | PDF QR menu | Poredai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Reprint every change | Re-export & re-upload PDF | Edit inline, live instantly |
| Ordering | Waitress-only | Read-only | Shared cart + rounds |
| Languages | One per print run | One per PDF | BG · EN · RU · UK built in |
| Photos | Rarely | Static | High-res, per item |
| Hardware | Printer | PDF host | None |
| Cost per order | Paper + reprints | Hosting | €0 — flat monthly fee |
Type it in or paste from a spreadsheet. Categories, prices, allergens, photos — all in one place. The digital menu supports multi-language out of the box.
We generate one QR code per table. Print, laminate, tuck into napkin folds or table tents. That's the whole hardware setup for your restaurant QR code system.
Guests scan, browse the online menu, share a table cart and send rounds. You watch orders come in live from the admin dashboard.
A QR code menu is a digital restaurant menu that guests open by scanning a QR code with the phone camera. It opens in the browser — no app to install — and always shows current prices, descriptions and photos.
You upload the menu once and get a printable QR code for each table. Guests scan to open the menu, and with Poredai the same scan starts a shared table cart, so a whole table can order together and hand rounds to the waitress via one more QR scan.
Yes. Contactless menu is the industry term; in practice it always means a QR code menu.
No. Guests use their own phones and the venue uses the phone or tablet it already has. Nothing to install, mount or replace.
It doesn't have to. Poredai sits alongside your POS and hands each guest round to the waitress via QR. If you'd rather the QR menu be your only ordering surface, that's supported too.
From €39/month per venue with no per-order commission. The first 20 restaurants to go live with Poredai get the full platform free for 2 years.
Guest orders queue on the phone and sync when signal returns. The staff dashboard reconnects automatically — no round is lost.
14 days free, no credit card. Bring a menu and a printer — we bring the rest.