The digital menu for restaurants that builds itself from a photo
Upload a photo or PDF of your current menu and Tappflow's AI turns it into a live digital menu for restaurants — every section, item, price, variant, and dietary tag extracted for you. Guests open it with one NFC tap at the table. No app, no reprints, no retyping.
Free 30-day trial · No credit card · Cancel any time
- AI extracts sections, items, prices, size variants, and dietary tags from a photo or PDF
- Halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free tags plus spice levels and calories
- Edit once in the dashboard — every table sees the change instantly
Paper menus quietly drain money every month
Every price change means another print run. Sold-out dishes stay on the menu all night, forcing awkward apologies at the table. Laminated pages have no photos of your best sellers, no dietary information for the guests who need it, and no way to test whether that new appetizer is even getting noticed. Meanwhile, typing hundreds of items into generic menu software by hand is the chore that keeps owners from ever switching.
Reprinting menus every time a supplier raises prices
Change a price in the dashboard and it's live at every table in seconds
Guests ordering dishes that sold out an hour ago
Hide an item with one toggle the moment the kitchen runs out
Days of manual data entry to go digital
AI reads your existing menu from a photo and builds it for you
No answers for halal, vegan, or allergy questions
Six dietary attributes, spice levels, and calories shown on every item
From photo to live menu, without the data entry
Tappflow's AI menu import does the heavy lifting: optical character recognition reads your photo or PDF, then AI structures it into sections, items, descriptions, prices, and variants — and flags anything it's less confident about so you can review before publishing. Each item carries the details modern diners ask about: halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free tags, spice levels, calories, and prep time. Bind an NFC tag to each table and guests open the menu with a single tap — no app download, no squinting at a QR code. When something changes, you edit it once and every table, every tag, and every language version updates instantly.
AI menu import from a photo or PDF
Upload a snapshot of your existing menu and the import pipeline — OCR plus AI extraction — returns structured sections, items, descriptions, prices, size variants, and dietary tags. Every extracted item gets a confidence score, and anything uncertain is flagged for a quick human review, so mistakes never reach your guests.
Dietary tags guests actually search for
Mark any item halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, or nut-free, and add spice levels, calories, and prep time. Guests filter to what they can eat instead of interrogating your servers — a genuine advantage for halal and multicultural kitchens where trust in labeling decides where families dine.
Multiple menus, variants, and instant edits
Run separate menus for brunch, dinner, or catering with a default always live. Items support size and option variants with individual pricing. Toggle an item off when the kitchen runs out and back on tomorrow — the change reaches every table the moment you save, with no reprints and no stale prices.
One tap at the table, no app to install
Each table's NFC tag opens your menu instantly in the guest's phone browser — no app store, no account, no QR squinting in dim lighting. The tag's link never needs reprogramming: change menus, promotions, or destinations from the dashboard and the same physical tag follows along.
Photos and branding that sell your high-margin dishes
Add photos, your logo, and theme colors so the menu feels like your restaurant, not a generic template. Items you flag as popular get highlighted, giving your highest-margin dishes the visibility a laminated page never could — menu-engineering basics, finally practical for independents.
How AI menu import works
From a paper menu to a live digital menu at every table — most restaurants finish setup in under an hour.
Snap and upload your current menu
Take a photo of your printed menu or upload the PDF from your designer. Multi-page menus work too — the AI processes each page and keeps your section order intact.
Review what the AI extracted
The import returns your sections, items, descriptions, prices, and variants with dietary tags pre-filled. Items with lower confidence scores are flagged, so you review the uncertain ones instead of proofreading everything.
Add photos, tags, and your branding
Drop in dish photos, confirm halal and allergy tags, set spice levels, and apply your theme colors and logo so the menu looks like yours from the first tap.
Tap a table tag and you're live
Bind NFC tags to your tables and the menu opens with one tap on any phone. Every future edit — prices, sold-out items, new dishes — goes live everywhere instantly.
“Menus that update themselves, sell with photos, and never need another print run.”
6
dietary attributes on every item, from halal to nut-free
0
reprints needed after a price change, ever
30-day
free trial with no credit card required
Frequently asked questions
Everything owners ask about ai-built digital menus before switching.
You upload a photo or PDF of your existing menu. Text recognition reads it, then AI structures the results into sections, items, descriptions, prices, variants, and dietary tags. Each extracted item carries a confidence score, and anything the AI is unsure about is flagged for your review before it goes live — so you check a handful of items instead of retyping hundreds.
No. Tapping the NFC tag on the table opens your menu directly in the phone's browser — no app store, no signup, no camera-and-QR dance. It works on any NFC-enabled iPhone or Android, which covers virtually every phone your guests carry today.
Yes. Every item supports six dietary attributes — halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free — plus spice levels, calories, and prep time. Your public page can also display halal certification and related details, which matters enormously for multicultural and halal-focused kitchens.
You toggle the item off or edit the price in the dashboard, and every table sees the change instantly. The NFC tags themselves never need reprogramming — they point to your live menu, so physical hardware and menu content stay completely independent.
Yes — you can run multiple menus per restaurant with one set as the default, so brunch, dinner, dessert, or seasonal menus each live separately. Higher plans unlock more menus and more items; see the pricing section for current limits.
Works better together
Every Tappflow feature runs on the same tags, tables, and dashboard — turn one on and the rest are a click away.
See it live at your own tables
Set up in an afternoon, test it through a real weekend service, and keep it only if your team does.
Free 30-day trial · No credit card · Cancel any time