Menutech
Online menu and bill-of-fare design software: menu creation, custom styles, digital menus, printing or sharing, dish ideas and menu analysis by AI, translations. Options: recipes and recipe cards (nutrition values, margins, ingredients), product management, multi-site, order taking, diet management and purchasing, integrations (website, intranet, social networks). Plans Mini, Maxi, S, M, L depending on the number of menus per month, and Gastronomy, Patients (hospitals) and Seniors (care homes) offers on quote. The page shows two amounts per plan without naming the currency: prices not recorded. Six currencies offered.
Generating a laid-out menu from a list of dishes, with allergens shown and a web page to share, is a realistic project, especially for a venue with only a few menus. What matters is accuracy: an allergen mistake engages the venue's responsibility, so the software must deduce allergens from ingredients and alert when a product changes. For a collective kitchen or several sites, diet and purchasing management come in and the tool becomes harder to match.
What you lose
- Ready-made layout styles.
- Deduction of allergens and nutrition values.
- Translations and AI menu analysis.
- Multi-site and diet management (Patients and Seniors plans).
Existing alternatives to Menutech
No free or open-source alternative currently meets our checks (active project under a free licence, free plan read on the vendor’s own site). Rather than invent one, the list stays empty.
What a home-built tool costs once it exists
- Hosting and database: a server cost, and automatic backups you actually test.
- Security and GDPR: dependency updates, an HTTPS certificate, protection of your customers’ data.
- Upkeep time: who fixes the tool on a Saturday night in the middle of service if the server goes down?
The prompt to build it yourself
Build a menu generator for my restaurant, replacing a menu design software. Context: a restaurant with a 25-dish menu that changes every week, in French and English. To do: - A dish database with name, description, VAT-inclusive price, category, ingredients and allergens (the 14 regulatory ones) deduced from the ingredients. - A phone-friendly web menu with an allergen filter, reachable through a QR code. - A printable A4 version laid out by category with allergen icons. - A French and English translation entered by me, never machine-translated for allergens. - A «sold out» status and a history of published menus. Out of scope: AI dish ideas, nutrition values, multi-site. Stack: Next.js, SQLite. README: how to run, backup, and a reminder that allergens must be rechecked each time a recipe changes.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does Menutech cost, and what do you really pay for?
- What the subscription covers and is hard to maintain yourself: Ready-made layout styles.; Deduction of allergens and nutrition values.; Translations and AI menu analysis.; Multi-site and diet management (Patients and Seniors plans)..
- Where do you start to build an equivalent of Menutech?
- Copy this page’s prompt into Claude, Codex or Cursor to get a first prototype. Then plan for hosting, data backups and GDPR compliance: that is what costs the most to maintain over time.
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