Paper still wins
You can read it without battery or signal, nobody has to take out a phone, and a well-printed menu is part of the room.
Digital menu and paper menu
Digital menu or paper: the honest maths.
It isn't paper versus screen. It's which part of your menu changes and which part stays the same. Here are both sets of figures: what you pay every year to reprint and translate, and what it costs to keep that same menu alive behind an engraved QR you never replace.
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Printing paper is cheap. Reprinting it is not
The expensive part of paper is printing it again. A laminated run starts at €45 at Spanish online printers and comes back several times a year: a supplier raises a price, the season turns, a new dish arrives. And every language you add goes through the translator again, from €35–50 per menu per language. A digital menu does not take the paper off your tables — it takes away the reprint.
Today's bill, line by line
- Reprinting and laminating the menu: from €45 per run, several times a year
- Professional translation: from €35–50 per menu per language, and again with every change
- Prices crossed out in pen or covered with a sticker until the next run
- Allergens your team confirms from memory because the printed sheet is behind
- A separate table ordering system: €99–199 a month on the market
Engraved in Palafrugell, not reprintedFrom menu to live
From paper to QR without throwing anything away
- 01
Upload the menu you already have: the printer's PDF, a photo or a link.
- 02
Check dishes, prices and the 14 allergens, and approve the translations in ES · CA · NL · EN · DE · FR.
- 03
Order the engraved holder for the table, bar or terrace: that code never changes.
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Leave the paper wherever it works for you and change prices, sell-outs and seasons from your phone.
What your team controls
When paper wins and when the QR wins
The honest answer is nearly always: both. Keep the paper where it sets the mood and put the QR where the menu moves — prices, sell-outs, seasons and languages. The digital half starts at €39/month excluding VAT, with 30 days free and no card; all three plans are on the pricing page.
The QR wins on changes
Raise a price or mark a sell-out once and it reaches every table in 240 ms, with nothing reprinted.
Allergens always current
All 14 allergens per dish, in six languages. The duty comes from Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 and Real Decreto 126/2015; the fines come from Ley 17/2011.
Workshop in Palafrugell
Digital menu. Physical QR.
Wood, acrylic, PVC and metal connect to permanent QR locations. The QR keeps working when the menu changes.
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Questions before you start
Do I have to stop printing the menu?
No, and it is rarely the right move. Most places keep the paper for the first read at the table and use the QR for everything that changes: prices, sell-outs, the seasonal menu and the six languages. That way you reprint when the menu genuinely changes, not every time a supplier puts a price up, and you stop crossing out prices in pen.
Where do the printing and translation figures come from?
They are public market prices checked on 5 August 2026: laminated menus from €45.00 per run at Spanish online printers (in plain PVC, from €29.80), and a common minimum of €35–50 plus VAT per language for professional translation, or €0.09 to €0.14 per word. A table ordering system with a kitchen panel runs between €99 and €199 a month. Ask for a quote and check it yourself.
So what does the digital half cost?
Starter €39/month, Pro €79/month and Premium €149/month, excluding VAT and with no lock-in. Table orders, the kitchen panel and stock are included in Pro. You can try it free for 30 days without a card, and the full breakdown is on the pricing page.
Paper menus list allergens too. What changes?
What changes is that the printed sheet ages and the digital one does not. You set the 14 allergens once per dish and they show in ES · CA · NL · EN · DE · FR, updated at the same time as the rest of the menu. The legal basis is worth remembering: the duty to inform comes from Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 and Real Decreto 126/2015, while the fines are set by Spain's Ley 17/2011 de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición — minor from €5,000 to €25,000, serious from €25,001 to €100,000 and very serious from €100,001 to €600,000.
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