A free menu QR code generator for your restaurant or café

How to use the menu QR code generator

The tool turns any menu link into a QR code. It works with a Cupcloud menu address, a page on your own website, or any other link your customers can open on a phone.

• Paste or type your menu link, and check it opens the right page
• Choose the colour of the code
• Download it as a PNG for everyday printing and sharing, or as an SVG if a designer or print shop will resize it
• Scan it with your own phone before you print anything

Printing tips so the code scans first time

Most QR codes that fail were printed too small, too pale or too close to the edge. A few habits avoid almost every problem.

• Size: print it bigger than feels necessary. A code on a table card is scanned from close up; a code on a window or a car-park sign is scanned from much farther away and needs to be far larger
• Contrast: a dark code on a light background. Pale colours, and light codes on dark backgrounds, are harder for phone cameras to read
• Quiet margin: leave a clear, empty border around the code. Do not let text, a frame or the edge of the sticker touch it
• Flat and matte: glossy lamination reflects ceiling lights, and a code wrapped around a curved cup or pillar may not scan
• Sharp edges: use the SVG for large prints so the squares stay crisp
• Test before printing in bulk: print one copy, put it where it will live and scan it with two or three different phones

Where to place it: tables, windows and flyers

On tables, a small stand or a sticker near the edge works well, facing the seat rather than the ceiling. Add a short line in English and Arabic so people know what the code is for, such as scan for the menu.

On a shop window or door, place the code at about eye level and where the glass does not glare in the afternoon sun. If customers order from their cars, a larger code on a sign they can reach with a phone camera from the driver's seat saves them stepping out.

On flyers, bags and delivery boxes, keep the code away from folds and seams. A code printed across a crease is the one that will not scan.

When one QR code per table is better

One code for the whole shop is enough when customers only read the menu. When they order from it, the kitchen needs to know where the order is going, and a single shared code cannot tell table four from table nine.

For cafés on the Cupcloud platform, the admin generates a separate QR code for every table. A customer scans the code on their table, orders in the phone's browser, and the order reaches the staff queue already marked with the table. Nobody has to type a table number or wave for a waiter.

This free generator is for a single link. If you want per-table codes with ordering behind them, that is part of Cupcloud itself.