Free restaurant QR codes: 5 traps to avoid
Surprise expiry, ads shown to your guests, unreadable PDFs: the traps of “free” QR codes and how to choose a reliable free plan.
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Sizes, plant milks, syrups, extra shots: Qarteo’s digital menu handles every drink option and shows off your pastries, so guests choose fast and happily add a cookie.
Why switch
While one hesitates in front of the chalkboard, three others wait. A digital menu can be read from the door, or from the table.
Oat milk, large size, vanilla syrup, decaf: impossible to show everything with prices on a chalkboard.
The display case is far from the tables: seated guests don’t think of ordering a treat.
Features
A light, fast menu that makes guests want “a little something extra”.
Sizes, milks, syrups, shots: every option with its price, the total adds up by itself.
Your cakes, cookies and pastries in photos, within reach of every seated guest.
Breakfast in the morning, lunch deal at noon, afternoon treats: the menu adapts to the time.
Reduced prices scheduled on chosen slots, shown and removed without you thinking about it.
Digital stamps: the 10th coffee is free, no paper card lost at the bottom of a bag.
Wi-Fi password, opening hours, social media: everything guests ask for, in one place.
How it works
Add your drinks and their options once; they apply everywhere.
A few phone photos are enough, the menu optimises them by itself.
On tables, at the counter and in the window for passers-by.
The guide
A café guest decides in seconds. Keep the menu short and readable: hot drinks, cold drinks, treats, then savoury if you serve it. Options (milk, size, syrup) belong inside the drink rather than in a separate list.
A café’s easiest lever is the drink + treat pairing. A cookie photo placed just under the drinks, or a “coffee + pastry” deal, is often enough to lift the average basket without any upselling at the counter.
The digital loyalty card does the rest: regulars come back to collect their stamp, and you finally know how many of them there are.
Yes. Put a QR code at the counter and in the window: guests read the menu while queuing and order faster.
Yes, each drink can have as many options as needed, each with its own extra price.
Yes, if you turn on table ordering: the order reaches the counter with the table number.
The free plan lets you publish up to 30 products with a permanent QR code, which is enough for many cafés.
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