A QR code for your restaurant or bar menu

The trouble with menu QR codes

Since 2020, almost every bar and restaurant has a QR code on the table. But many of them cause headaches:

• Changing prices: if the QR code points straight at a PDF and you change the file or its address, you have to reprint every table card.
• Overseas guests: an English-only menu is no help to many tourists, and several QR codes on one table just confuse people.
• “Free” QR codes that expire: many services switch the code off when the trial ends or cap monthly scans. A busy restaurant can easily reach thousands of scans a month, and on the day it's cut off, your guests have no menu.

Why a dynamic QR code

With QR Boost, the printed code points to a short qrboost.com link that forwards to your menu. You change the destination whenever you like, without touching what's printed. And it's free, never expires and has no scan limits.

Please note: QR Boost doesn't host your menu. It needs to live on your website or at a public link: a page on your site, a PDF uploaded to your site or a Google Drive file shared with “anyone with the link”.

Ways to get more out of it

Rule	Example
By language	Browser in Spanish → Spanish menu; in French → French menu
By day and time	8:00–12:00 → breakfast; 12:00–16:30 → lunch; 18:00–00:30 → dinner
By day and time	Saturday and Sunday, 10:00–13:00 → brunch menu (place it above the breakfast rule)
Main destination	Your standard menu, for everything else

Rules are checked in order and the first match wins. Time slots that cross midnight work too.

More ideas:

• Update prices or the daily specials by uploading the new menu and changing the destination in seconds.
• Closed for the holidays? Pause the QR code and send people to a page with your reopening date.
• Add UTM parameters to see in Google Analytics how many website visits come from your tables.

How to create it, step by step

1. Open the editor, choose Link and paste your menu's address.
2. In Destinations, pick Smart destinations and add “By language” or “By day and time” rules (with your time zone).
3. In Design, use your venue's colours, add your logo in the centre and a frame saying “See the menu”.
4. Check the scan test and create your free account (just an email and a name).
5. Download it as PDF or SVG for the printer, or PNG for social media.

Printing tips

• Size: at least 3 × 3 cm on a table card; much larger on a wall poster or shop window, depending on viewing distance.
• Contrast: dark code on a light background. Avoid pastel shades and photo backgrounds.
• Call to action: “Scan to see our menu” works better than a bare QR code.
• Materials: laminate table cards; error correction helps if they get a bit grubby.
• Keep paper menus for anyone who asks: not everyone wants to use their phone.

Stats without personal data

See how often your menu is scanned by day, country and device, handy for knowing how many tourists you get. We don't store IPs or anything that identifies your guests.

Create your menu QR code for free.