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Scan your menu — let the AI read it in

Typing a whole menu in by hand is slow. Upload a photo or PDF, or paste a link, and the AI pulls out every dish and price, then shows you exactly what it wants to add or change.

The rule: you always review first. The AI proposes; you decide. Nothing changes on your public menu until you press Apply.

How it works

  1. Open Menu → Scan Menu (AI).
  2. Give it your menu: Upload a file (a PDF, or up to 5 photos for several pages), or Paste a link to your menu page.
  3. Press Scan my menu. In about half a minute it has read everything and lined it up against your current menu.
  4. Review the plan in four groups: Menu structure — what each section holds, which family it belongs to, whether it should carry Glass and Bottle prices — then New dishes, then Price changes, old price → new, then Fill in details for dishes you already have.
  5. Everything is pre-ticked. Untick anything you’d rather skip, then press Apply.

It reads the line under the dish, not just the name

Whatever your menu prints under a dish comes in with it. That line becomes the dish’s short blurb, and the ingredients named inside it become ingredient tags on the item — even when it’s written as a sentence. “Classic saucisson with roasted pistachio” arrives as the blurb and as two ingredients. A line that only sells the dish (“our most requested plate”) becomes the blurb and nothing else, because it doesn’t name anything.

That matters beyond looks: ingredients are what lets your menu hide a dish from a guest avoiding something.

Scanning again fills in dishes you already have

Scan the same menu twice and the second read is not wasted. Dishes you already have show up under Fill in details, and each row says exactly what it would add — “adds ingredients and short blurb”.

It only fills boxes that are empty. Anything you wrote is never replaced.

That’s how a menu imported before we read ingredients catches up: scan it again, tick the list, press Apply. Dishes that are already complete don’t appear at all.

It files drinks like a beverage manager

Wine goes into wine-type sections — Red, White, Rosé, Sparkling — never a region: a heading like “ITALY (Tuscany)” becomes the bottle’s region and country, alongside grape, vintage and producer. Cocktails keep their ingredients, spirits file by type, and glass and bottle prices both land when the list shows two columns.

Good to know

  • Scanning again tidies sections you already have — their type, their family, their fields, as suggestions you tick. Sections that are already set up produce none, so a second scan won’t nag you.
  • Nothing you’ve set is overwritten. Your own type, your own fields, where you moved a section — all left alone, and a section is never renamed.
  • Dishes that already match are left alone, and an item with size options is never overwritten by one scanned price.
  • It costs a few credits per scan, shown next to the button; applying is free. A computer-made PDF costs far less than a photo — the words are already inside the file.
  • Got a price wrong? Click it in the review list and type the right one. ↺ puts back what we read.
  • It never removes anything. To take a dish off, hide it in the editor.
  • Nothing is invented. If your menu prints no line under a dish, the blurb comes in empty — use Write with AI in the editor to draft one.