The menu.video blog
Ideas and guides on digital menus, QR codes and video menus.
Food Photography for Your Restaurant Menu: How to Shoot Dishes With a Phone
A practical guide to menu food photography without a studio: light, angles, plating and backgrounds for dish photos you shoot on a phone during service — and how to turn them into a menu guests actually look at.
Read more →Multilingual Menu in Malta: How to Write a Menu Tourists Understand
Most guests reading a menu in Valletta, Sliema or St Julian's are not from Malta. How to name and describe dishes so every tourist understands them, which languages are worth it, and the mistakes to avoid.
Read more →Restaurant Allergen Chart: The Big 9 and How to Put Them on Your Menu
The nine major US food allergens, what a restaurant is actually required to do, what belongs on an allergen chart, and how to put allergens on the menu itself.
Read more →Video Menu for Restaurants: What It Is and Why It Beats a QR Code PDF
A video menu shows every dish as a short video behind the same QR code. What a restaurant video menu is, how it differs from menu boards and PDF menus, and how to create one from a single photo per dish.
Read more →Can ChatGPT and Google Read Your Restaurant Menu? How to Make It AI-Readable
When a guest asks an AI assistant where to eat, it can only recommend dishes it can read. How to make your restaurant menu readable by Google and ChatGPT: real text, schema.org Menu markup, and a clean menu address.
Read more →QR Code Menus in Malta: Free Menu vs Video Menu — Which Should You Choose?
A practical guide for restaurants in Malta choosing a QR code menu in 2026: what free QR menus give you, what they don't, and when a video menu is worth paying for.
Read more →PDF Menu Alternative: Why Your QR Code Shouldn't Open a PDF (2026)
Most restaurant QR codes still open a PDF: pinch, zoom, scroll sideways, give up. Here's what's wrong with PDF menus on phones, and the better alternative for restaurants.
Read more →Menus With Allergens: The 14 EU Allergens and How to List Them
How to put allergens on a restaurant menu in the EU: the full list of 14 allergens, what the rules require, and how to show them dish by dish on a QR code menu guests can read.
Read more →Turn a Dish Photo Into a Video — With AI (2026 Guide)
AI food video generators can turn a single photo of your dish into a short, appetizing video. Here's how it works, and how to build a whole AI video menu from your photos.
Read more →How to Make a Digital Menu for Your Restaurant (2026 Guide)
Step-by-step guide to creating a digital QR code menu for your restaurant — and how to make it actually sell, with video instead of plain text.
Read more →QR Code Menu vs Video Menu: Why Restaurants Are Switching in 2026
A plain QR menu just shows text. A video menu makes guests hungry. Here's why restaurants in 2026 are upgrading from static QR menus to scrollable video menus.
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