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Digital menu - Getting started

Re-engage restaurant customers with push notifications

BuonMenu is a digital menu for restaurants. Thanks to a partenership with Pushpad, a service for push notifications, restaurant owners can now send notifications to all their customers.

When a user opens the digital menu of a restaurant (for example, by scanning a QR code), they will see a small message asking if they accept to receive the notifications. If they click “Allow“, they are subscribed to the notifications.

Then, the restaurant owner can open the restaurant account on BuonMenu and send a message to all the subscribers, without any additional cost.

The message can be anything, like a promotion of a new dish, a special event, a discount, a daily menu, etc. This is a powerful strategy to promote the restaurant and increase sales.

How to send a notification

Open your BuonMenu account and then click “Send notification“.

Then type a short message and click “Send“.

A notification will be immediately delivered to all the customers of the restaurant (if they have enabled the notifications).

How to subscribe to notifications

Simply open the menu of a restaurant using a direct link (e.g. from Google, social, email, etc.) or a QR code.

You will start receiving notifications for that restaurant.

If you see a message that asks you a permission to receive the notifications from BuonMenu, you should accept. In case you blocked the notifications and you change your mind later, you can open a menu on BuonMenu, click the lock icon near the address bar, and change your settings: usually there is a button for changing the notification preferences or for resetting your choice.

Currently all major browsers support the notifications from websites, except iOS, which will add support for this new technology in 2023.

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Easily manage the menu of the day with the archive function

Using a digital menu like BuonMenu, it is easy to manage a menu that changes frequently, like the menu of the day.

First of all you can use BuonMenu to create multiple menus: for example you can create a “Menu of the day” separate from the “Menu à la carte”.

Then, inside the menu of the day, you can create some categories and add all the dishes that you usually offer during the week.

Finally, each day, you can use the “Archive” and “Restore” button, on each product, in order to make it visible or hide it from the menu.

Basically, inside the digital menu, you can keep a catalogue of all the dishes, but then you show only some dishes to the customers (i.e. the dishes that are available that day).

If you have different needs, like a “cycle menu”, you can decide to create multiple menus, one for each day (e.g. “Menu – Sunday”, “Menu – Monday”, etc.) and then “Archive” and “Restore” an entire menu, based on the current day.

Note that the “Archive” and “Restore” functions offered by BuonMenu can be used on a single item, or on entire categories and menus.

Thanks to the “Archive” and “Restore” buttons, you don’t have to rewrite a new menu each time: you can simply hide or show the items and save a lot of time.

This is even more useful when the items include detailed descriptions, ingredients, allergens, images, labels, variants or other details that would be hard to rewrite each time.

Using BuonMenu you can get rid of paper menus: you can simply use the QR code and never print a menu again.

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Digital menu - Getting started

How BuonMenu works: a digital menu with QR code for restaurants

BuonMenu is the easiest way to create a digital menu for your restaurant (or pub, coffee shop, pizzeria, sushi, etc.).

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The restaurant menu on the user smartphone

Have you ever noticed that people spend a lot of time on their smartphone even when they are sitting at the table? Now people can read your restaurant menu directly on their smartphone.

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Contactless menu with QR code: the new technology for restaurants

There is a new trend for restaurants: the traditional paper menus are being replaced by digital menus with QR code.

You can create a contactless menu with QR code for your restaurant and publish it online using BuonMenu. Then your users can simply scan the QR code with their smartphone in order to read your menu.

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Useful links to include in your digital menu

One of the advantages of a digital menu for restaurants, like BuonMenu, is that you can include useful links directly inside your menu. In this way your guests have immediate access to relevant information and you can promote actions that are valuable for your business.

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How to create and print the QR code for a digital menu

Creating and printing the QR code for your restaurant menu is extremely simple.

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Design tips for creating the perfect digital menu

This is a simple style guide with useful suggestions and design ideas for improving the appearance of your digital menu created with BuonMenu.

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Digital menu: video tutorials

Do you want to create a digital menu on smartphone for your restaurant? Let’s see some videos that show how to use BuonMenu and what kind of digital menus you can create.

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Digital menu - Getting started

Frequently asked questions about the digital menu

Here you can find the answers to all the common questions about BuonMenu and digital menus.

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How to see a menu with QR code

Are you sitting in the restaurant and you want to open the digital menu of the restaurant on your smartphone? Here’s how you can scan the QR code provided by the restaurant and read the menu.

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Multilingual digital menu for restaurants

You can use BuonMenu.com to create a multilingual online menu for your restaurant. The multilingual menu can be read by your customers on a smartphone, tablet or computer, both in your restaurant or from any other place. Let’s see how to create a multilingual menu.

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Things to consider before buying a digital menu for your restaurant

A digital menu is an alternative to paper menus that offers many advantages. However not all digital menus are the same: here’s some things that you should consider before choosing a digital menu for your restaurant.

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Free digital menu for restaurants

BuonMenu is 100% free until 31 May 2021 for restaurants that sign up before 15 September 2020.

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Coronavirus and hygiene in restaurants: there’s a safer menu

When we first released BuonMenu, the first digital menu on the user smartphone, we were excited for all the advantages that it offers: one of them is certainly the hygiene.

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A cheaper menu on tablet for your restaurant

BuonMenu is the online menu for restaurants. You can use it also inside your restaurant by giving a tablet to your users.

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A different kind of digital menu for restaurants

When you hear “digital menu” what do you think about? Maybe you think about digital menus on tablet or digital menu boards. There’s a new, modern, smart digital menu: BuonMenu is the digital menu on the user smartphone.

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How to create a digital menu for your restaurant

You can use BuonMenu.com to easily create and publish a digital menu for your restaurant. Creating and updating a menu is easy and doesn’t require technical skills. The online menu will look beautiful both on desktop and mobile.

Let’s get started…

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Reasons to choose BuonMenu, the digital menu on the user smartphone

BuonMenu is the digital menu for smart restaurants.

Restaurants and other food establishments use BuonMenu to create and publish beautiful menus online.

Using BuonMenu you can easily create an online menu for your restaurant and allow your customers to browse your digital menu directly on their smartphone.

There are tens of reasons to choose our digital menu solution:

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How to open the digital menu on your smartphone

Let’s say that you have published a beautiful menu online for your restaurant using BuonMenu. How can you tell your users about it? How can they open the digital menu?

Fortunately you can give instant and easy access to your online menu. Users don’t need to install any app in order to read your online menu. They can simply open a link or search your restaurant name. You can even print a QR code and put it on the tables.