Making your restaurant menu work
A restaurant menu is read slowly, at the table, by someone deciding what to spend. It needs sections a diner can scan, prices that are easy to find, and a look that matches the room it is read in.
What to write on it
- Group dishes the way people order: starters, mains, sides, desserts and drinks.
- Give each dish a short line on what is in it; diners with allergies read every word.
- Add your opening hours and a note on dietary options at the bottom.
One tip
Print a few spare copies and keep the file: prices change, and a menu with handwritten corrections makes a good kitchen look careless.
What you get
- Made at 8.5 × 11 in.
- A CMYK print PDF with bleed and crop marks, ready for any print shop.
- Menus & price lists come in US Letter, A4 and 11 × 17 in, one page.
- Two AI designs from your words, logo and colours; preview free, $3.99 for the one you keep.
- How do I make a restaurant menu?
- Start from this one, type your dishes and prices in place of the examples, and pick between the two designs. The file goes straight to any print shop.
- Can the restaurant menu be longer than one page?
- This menu is one single-sided page. For more dishes, choose the larger 11 × 17 in size, or make food and drinks two separate menus.























