Comparison
vs a printed menu and other systems
What separates a printed menu, a menu system and a menewz menu is not how they look on day one. It shows up every time you change a price, a dish sells out, you want a different menu on Tuesday, or someone on the team needs to update something and does not have the file.
What actually changes
Different systems work differently. The middle column describes what is common, not every product.
Changing a price or a dish
- Printed menu
- Reprint every copy
- Other systems
- Usually needs an export and a republish
- menewz
- Edit it; diners see the change immediately
A dish that sold out
- Printed menu
- Cannot be marked; a server tells each table
- Other systems
- Depends on the system
- menewz
- Mark it sold out and the menu updates at once
A different menu by day or hour
- Printed menu
- Print a separate version for each day
- Other systems
- Usually one menu only
- menewz
- Several menus plus time-based sections, switched between
Who can update it
- Printed menu
- Whoever holds the file, usually one person
- Other systems
- Usually a single user
- menewz
- Several people at once, as owner, manager or staff
How it looks
- Printed menu
- Whatever the printer gives you, often black and white
- Other systems
- Generic templates that look the same everywhere
- menewz
- 12 designs, so the menu speaks the business's language
Hebrew
- Printed menu
- Not applicable
- Other systems
- Usually a translation layer over an English product
- menewz
- Hebrew and RTL are the default
Paper
- Printed menu
- Reprinted on every change
- Other systems
- None
- menewz
- No reprinting; the same QR code keeps working
A printed menu
- Printed menu
- That is the whole method
- Other systems
- Usually not supported
- menewz
- You can design and export a menu for print too
What to check before choosing
How long it takes to change a price, and who on the team has to do it
Whether a sold-out dish can be marked without producing a new file or version
Whether you can keep several menus and switch by day or hour
How many people can update it, and with what permissions
How Hebrew looks on a real phone, not just in a demo
What happens to the QR code already stuck to your tables when the menu changes
Even if you stay with a printed menu
You do not have to give up the physical menu to benefit from this. Manage and design the menu in menewz and export it for print, instead of maintaining a Word document only one person will touch. Updating takes seconds, and the whole team can have access.
The one that costs real money
If the QR code points at a file or a specific version, any update can change the address and make everything already stuck to your tables useless. Worth checking against every option. With menewz the address is fixed: update the menu, and the code you already printed keeps working.
What does take work
The menu has to be entered once at the start. You can type it, photograph an existing menu and let the system read it, or import from a Wolt or 10bis link and check the result.
You can just
see it yourself
There is a live demo menu you can open on your phone, no signup.