Case studies/Restaurant Catalogue
Our product2026 · Our own product · Made in Athens

Paper menu to live QR code in minutes.

Restaurant Catalogue is the affordable, AI-native digital menu platform for EU hospitality. A venue owner photographs their paper menu — or imports one from an existing site — and AI rebuilds it as a structured, multi-language menu guests open with a scan. No app, no login, no agency timeline.

~2 min
AI menu scan
30
languages
EU-14
allergens built in
€0
free forever plan
The brief

Menus should go live before dinner service, not after an agency quote.

Independent restaurants, cafés, bars, and hotels across Europe still depend on PDFs, static websites, or expensive incumbents to get a menu online. The hard part — structuring dishes, translating them, tagging allergens, making it look professional — takes weeks when done by hand.

We built Restaurant Catalogue around the opposite promise: photograph your paper menu and AI publishes a branded, multi-language digital menu your guests open with a QR code. Dinner service starts at six. Your menu can be live by five.

What we built

AI does the heavy lifting. Owners keep control.

01

AI menu scanning & import

Photograph a paper menu, upload a PDF, or paste an existing menu URL — AI extracts dishes, prices, descriptions, and allergen hints in about two minutes. Uncertain items are flagged for review; hand edits are never overwritten by AI re-runs.

02

EU compliance by default

All 14 EU-declarable allergens on every dish, with one-tap guest filtering. GDPR-first data handling, EU AI Act transparency, EUR pricing, and translations across ~30 European languages — built for the market we serve first.

03

Public menu site & AI site builder

A drag-and-drop block builder for hero, menu sections, gallery, hours, and CTAs — plus an AI assistant grounded in the venue's real menu and photos. Custom domains, print-ready QR codes, branded table tents, and JSON-LD so each menu ranks in search.

Results

From photo to published menu — no app required.

Restaurant Catalogue ships the full loop: onboarding wizard, AI scanning, translation, allergen labelling, team roles, Stripe billing, and anonymous menu analytics. Guests scan a QR code and browse in their language. Owners go live on a subdomain in minutes or on their own domain on paid plans.

~2 min

from paper menu photo to structured digital menu.

30

European languages with AI translation.

0

apps for guests to download — always a plain web page.

The stack

What we built it on.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSPrismaMongoDBGemini AIStripeVercel

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