A Quick Guide to Restaurant Menu Printing
Need to print a restaurant menu for your customers? Here’s how to choose the best one for your business.
If you work in a sit-down restaurant, a menu is a must. However, even if you run a busy take-away or a food truck, you might not realise that menus that customers can take with them are great marketing collateral, too.
Even if they don’t eat with you on the day, it can remind them to visit you when a craving strikes.
If you don’t know where to start with sit-down or takeaway menu printing online, or even how to print a menu in the first place (as there’s more than one way to do it), Printt has you covered.
Take-away or restaurant, menu printing is more affordable than you think – and you can get 30% off your first delivery with Printt, and free delivery on orders over £10.
Which menu is right for my business? Basic A4 Menu Printing
If you want to know how to print a menu – and which menu style to choose – put the core purpose first: show off your food and whet your patrons’ appetites.
This is all the more important if you run a food truck or are trying to entice passers-by into your restaurant, because if they can’t immediately see what you offer, you may lose your chance to hook them.
That’s why keeping it simple is often the best option, so here are 3 simple A4 menu printing options that will do just that:
Single-sheet: this is a standard menu style on single-sheet letterhead. Black-and-white or full-colour, it’s ideal for dine-in and takeaway menu printing.
Trifold: this kind of menu can be folded 3 times to show 6 different panels. It’s perfect for larger menus and it can also showcase pictures, maps, reviews, and more. If you want to leave a menu in a potential customer’s letterbox, this is the ideal one.
Long: If you have a lot to offer and want to keep your menu on a single page – even if it’s double-sided, this menu style will do it.
Tip: having a physical menu alongside an online one (accessible by a QR code) will cover all your bases – and it will ensure that not even a low smartphone battery will stop your customers from seeing what’s on offer.
Alternative Food Menu Printing Styles
For more ‘niche’ purposes, such as specials or drinks menus, you can still incorporate these into the previous menu styles.
However, when it comes to printing – just like food service – presentation matters. So, why not consider these next few restaurant menu printing types:
Booklet Menus: these are larger menus, commonly about 8 pages long, which are bound with staples or plastic coils. If you have lots of drinks with pictures to show, this is the menu type for that.
Card Menus: these offer a more ‘bespoke’ feel with a heavier material – cardstock. Often printed in a small size, they’re suitable for specials, prix-fixe, or simply short menus.
Brochure Menus: brochure menus are very versatile, as they can be folded in many different layouts, including bifold and tri-fold, but also in a zig-zag (“accordion”) or even with one end tucked into the other (a “roll-fold”).
Tip: you can often find a brochure template in Microsoft Word or the equivalent, which can be a quick way to plan out your menu’s look and feel.
Lastly, if you cater outside (or in a pub where customers tend to forget about coasters), waterproof menu printing is your best option. It’s more expensive in the long run to keep replacing menus than it is to wipe down and reuse a waterproof one.
For this, you could use bespoke polyester sheeting – but the more durable, easy-to-clean (and, frankly, simpler) option is a laminated menu.
Print your restaurant menu with Printt
Whether you need high-volume takeaway menu printing, or bespoke binding and lamination for your diners, Printt makes menu printing online efficient and cost-effective.
Our pricing is transparent (you can use our instant quote calculator to see for yourself), and with delivery or collection from over 300+ printing partners local to you, you don’t need a printer to produce high-quality, affordable menus. So, get started today.