Printing your menu

If you keep your menu on paper, in plastic sleeves or a folder, your site can print it for you. Change some prices, press Print, and swap the sheets. It prints on plain paper or colored paper.

Where to find it

Administration → Print menu. You'll see your menu laid out as a sheet of paper, with the settings beside it.

Your customers can print it too. Once you have dishes published, a Printable menu link appears at the bottom of every page of your site. It's handy for takeout menus on the fridge and office lunch orders.

Setting it up

Everything you change shows on the sheet straight away.

• Sections. Untick any you don't want printed, such as drinks if they have their own card. Your catering and seasonal pages can be added here too.
• Columns. One or two. Two fits more on a page.
• Text size. Compact, Regular or Large.
• Paper. Letter (8.5 × 11) or Legal (8.5 × 14).
• Include. Dish descriptions, your logo, and your opening hours.

Above the sheet it tells you how many pages it will take. To get a long menu onto one sheet, try Compact text on Legal paper, or turn off the descriptions.

Printing it

Press Print. Your computer's print window opens. Choose your printer, or choose Save as PDF if you're taking it to a print shop.

If you chose Legal in the settings, choose Legal in the print window too, and load Legal paper.

Chrome and Edge give the neatest page breaks. Safari works, but it's less careful about keeping a dish together at the bottom of a page.

What goes on the sheet

A printed menu sits in its sleeve for weeks, so it only carries what stays true for weeks.

• Your published dishes. Drafts never print.
• The regular price. A weekly special prints as a note under the dish, like Special on Tuesdays: $9.00. Market price prints as "Market price."
• Sold out dishes still print, so running out of brisket doesn't mean reprinting.
• No photos. They use a lot of ink and push the menu onto more pages.
• Your dietary and allergen labels, in small type under each dish.

At the bottom of every sheet:

• Your phone number and address, and your hours on one line if you've included them.
• Your allergen notice. It's on every printed copy, the same as on your site.
• A QR code to your live menu, so people can check today's specials and anything that's sold out.

Copies your customers print

When a customer prints your menu, their copy says "Current as of" with the date, and "Prices may change." If someone brings in a printout from last spring, the date shows which prices it had.

The copies you print while signed in don't carry a date, so the sheets in your sleeves don't look out of date a week later.