Digital Menus
How to Put Your Restaurant Menu Online
Put your menu online once, as a text web page at an address that will not change, and then point every place people look for it to that one page: your website, your Google Business Profile, map and review listings, your social profiles and the QR codes in your restaurant. Keeping a single master menu is what stops the five copies from disagreeing about prices.
Step 1: Publish one master menu page
Start with the menu as a web page — text, prices, short descriptions and allergen information — rather than a photo or a PDF. Text can be read on a phone, found by search engines and changed in seconds.
- Choose an address you will keep: a page on your own domain, or a menu service whose links you can rely on.
- Include what guests check before visiting: prices, dietary options and allergens.
- Put a date or season on menus that change, so people know they are current.
If you are building the menu from scratch, see how to create a digital menu.
Step 2: Link it from your website
Make "Menu" a top-level link that opens the master page directly — not a download. If your website and your menu live at different addresses, link to the menu page rather than copying it into the website, so there is only one version to update.
Step 3: Add it to your Google Business Profile
Many guests see your Business Profile in Google Search and Maps before they ever reach your website. Google's menu editor lets food and drink businesses list menu items with descriptions and prices, grouped into sections such as starters, mains and desserts, and the profile can also carry a link to your menu.
- Add the menu link pointing to your master menu page.
- If you also enter items in Google's menu editor, treat it as a second copy that must be updated whenever prices change.
- Keep your opening hours on the profile identical to the hours on your website.
Step 4: Other listings and social profiles
- Map apps and review sites: where a listing has a menu or website field, use the master menu address.
- Social profiles: put the menu link in the profile itself, not only in individual posts that scroll away.
- Messaging replies: keep the menu link as a saved reply for the "can I see the menu?" question.
Step 5: QR codes in the restaurant
Inside the restaurant, a QR code on each table opens the same master menu on the guest's phone. Because it is the same page, a price you change for the website is already changed at the table.
The details are in how to create a QR code menu.
Step 6: Delivery apps
Delivery apps usually keep their own copy of your menu inside their systems. That copy cannot simply link to your page, so it is the one most likely to drift. If you use them, write down which items and prices you list there and review that list every time the master menu changes.
A checklist for every menu change
- Update the master menu page.
- Update any items you entered in Google's menu editor.
- Update each delivery app menu.
- Replace printed menus if prices on paper are now wrong.
Doing it with Thmenu
Thmenu publishes your menu as a web page at its own address on menu.thmenu.com — serving it from your own domain is not available yet — which you can use as the menu link on your Google Business Profile, your website and your social profiles. The table QR codes open the same menu, and a printable version is generated from the same data, so a price changed once is changed everywhere Thmenu shows it.
See how the Thmenu digital menu works.
Sources
- Google Business Profile Help — About the menu editor (accessed 7 October 2026)