QR code menu cost
- Table cards to print
- 24
- One off cost to code the room
- £20.40
- Paper menus reprinted a year
- 240
- Paper menu printing a year
- £336
The figures these sheets work come from your own inputs and from the record a till keeps of what was ordered: one order per table or collection slot, one line per item, and one reprint per menu change. Nothing here quotes a vendor's price except where the page names the vendor, the page it was read from and the day it was read.
The figures above start from a worked example (24), sized from the record a till keeps of what was ordered. Change any input and the answer updates as you type.
Download the QR code menu cost worked example (CSV)
Putting a QR code menu in a room is two costs and one saving, and every one of them is arithmetic you can do before you talk to anybody. The costs are the cards you print and the number of them each table needs. The saving is the reprinting you stop doing, which is the paper menus you run off every time a dish or a price changes. This sheet takes your table count, your card price, your menu changes a year and what a paper menu costs you, and works the lot from your own figures and from the record a till keeps of what was ordered.
QR code menu cost: what operators ask before they sign
How many codes does a table need?
One in the middle works for a four top. A long table or a booth usually wants one at each end, because a card that has to be passed down the table is a card that ends up under a plate. Outside tables want their own, and they want laminating.
Does the code have to change when the menu does?
No, and that is the whole point of it. The code points at a page you edit, so the card on the table is still correct after a price change. The only thing that forces a reprint is a card that has been damaged or a code that was printed too small to scan.
What happens to guests who will not scan a code?
Keep some paper menus. Every room that has done this has kept a handful for guests who prefer one, and the sheet still works, because the saving comes from the reprint run you no longer do at every menu change rather than from having no paper at all.
Where the constants in this tool come from
Storekit pricing: the published tiers for UK restaurant online ordering.