Straight answers

Building the first menu is real work, and we do it for you. Send us your existing PDF, photos or printed card and we type it in by hand — every section, item, description and price — then hand it back for you to check and correct. How long that takes depends on the size of your menu and how quickly we can settle the details with you. Once it is live you are in control, and every change you make after that appears instantly. There is a 30-day free trial and no card is needed to start.

No. Everything is a form field in a dashboard — item name, price, description, photo. If you can post to Instagram you can run an Astro-Menu menu. There is nothing to install and nothing to host.

Your current menu in any form — a PDF, a photo of the printed card, or a spreadsheet — plus your logo and a cover photo of the venue. Dish photos are optional at the start and can be added item by item afterwards. Expect a little back and forth while we check prices and spellings with you — that is normal, and it is how the menu ends up right.

Yes. Every account starts with a 30-day free trial and no card is required. You can build the whole menu, print the code and put it on tables during the trial.

No. The menu opens in whatever browser is already on the phone. Point the camera at the code and it opens — no download, no account, no sign-in.

No, and this is the single most important thing to get right. The code points at your menu, not at a file. Change prices, add dishes, rebuild the whole menu — the printed code on the table keeps working. Codes that encode a PDF have to be reprinted every time, which is what forces most venues to start over.

Three are included: the language you write the menu in, plus two more. You choose them during onboarding, when you tell us which languages your guests actually read, and you can change your mind later. A fourth language and beyond is a paid extra rather than a different plan — email us and we will quote it.

Yes. Name Arabic as one of your menu languages and the whole menu is translated and laid out right-to-left. Guests switch language from the header. Any language works the same way, and you can override an individual translation if a dish name comes back wrong.

Yes — one toggle. The item disappears from the live menu immediately and comes back whenever you switch it on again, so nobody orders something you cannot serve.

Yes. Calories, carbs, fat and protein can be shown per item, and they stay attached to the item wherever it appears. It is optional — switch it off for the whole menu if you would rather not display it.

Yes. Guests filter by meal type — hot, cold, decaf, healthy, light portion, sweet — and jump between sections from chips pinned at the top of the screen. On a 120-item menu that is the difference between finding a drink in seconds and giving up.

The guest needs a connection to load the menu the first time, the same as opening any web page. Most venues put their Wi-Fi password on the menu page itself for exactly this reason.

No. Astro-Menu is a digital menu and nothing else. Keep whatever till you already use — we do not replace it, integrate with it, or sit between you and your customer.

No. There is no cart, no ordering and no payment. That is deliberate: it keeps the product simple, keeps the price at one flat fee, and means we never take a commission.

No hardware at all. You print the QR code on whatever you already use — a table tent, a sticker, a window decal, the back of a business card.