Digital Menus
Digital Menus for Beach Clubs
At a beach club, a digital menu works best when every lounger or umbrella has its own QR code, so an order arrives already saying where to bring it. Guests read the menu in their own language, order a round without waving for staff, and can call a server or ask for the bill from the phone. Decide whether guests pay when ordering — usually simpler on a busy beach — and keep the menu short enough to read in bright sun.
What makes a beach club different
- Guests are spread out, and staff walk a long way for each order.
- Many guests are visitors who do not read the local language.
- Orders come in small, frequent rounds: water, a cocktail, something to share.
- Guests move — from lounger to pool to bar — and the bill has to follow them.
- Weather can close the beach in minutes.
One code per lounger
Number every lounger, bed or umbrella and give each its own code, fixed where it will not blow away or fade: on the umbrella pole or a small stand, not on a loose card. The bar and the pool deck can have their own codes too. When an order arrives, staff see exactly where it goes without asking.
A menu that reads in the sun
- Fewer categories, short names, prices that stand out.
- Strong contrast between text and background; check it outside at midday.
- Photos for cocktails and sharing plates, where the picture sells the order.
- The menu in the guest's own language, with allergens on every item.
Paying on the beach
Paying when ordering suits a beach: each round is settled as it goes, nobody has to find a guest who has gone for a swim, and a forgotten bill at sunset is not a problem. If you prefer one bill at the end, guests can ask for it from the phone and staff bring it. Either way, decide before the season and tell guests on the code card.
When guests move
Guests change places during the day. Agree how staff handle it: move the open orders to the new spot, or keep the original lounger as the guest's bill. A system that can move a visit from one place to another keeps the bill attached to the guest rather than to an empty lounger.
When the weather turns
When wind or a storm closes the beach, stop new orders at once, so the kitchen is not making food for loungers that have emptied. Keep the menu visible with a short notice, so guests sheltering at the bar still know what is available there.
How guests order from a code, step by step: how QR table ordering works.
A beach club menu with Thmenu
In Thmenu every place you add can be marked as a sun lounger, beach, poolside, terrace, bar or event area, and each gets its own QR code from a print-ready PDF. Orders arrive on the kitchen screen with the place name. Guests read the menu in their phone's language and can view prices in another currency for orientation, while the bill stays in yours. Waiter-call and bill-request buttons are switches you control; you choose whether guests pay when ordering or after, and paying by card in the app needs a Stripe account. Staff can move a guest's open orders from one place to another, and holiday mode pauses ordering, waiter calls and bill requests while the menu stays visible with a banner.