A menu PDF can open on a phone and still be hard to use. Test loading, zoom, text size, links and the route back to current booking information before publishing.
What the film covers
- Start with the task, not the file format
- Run the mobile menu test in seven steps
- 1. Test the menu link as a tap target
- 2. Observe what happens after the tap
- 3. Try a complete find-and-read task
- 4. Check whether the text is actually available as text
- 5. Measure file size and loading behaviour honestly
- 6. Force a failure and test the recovery path
Questions the film answers
- Should a restaurant remove every PDF menu?
No universal rule is appropriate. Keep a PDF when it has a clear guest purpose and passes the relevant checks, but use a responsive, crawlable HTML menu as the primary current source.
- How can I tell whether a PDF contains real text?
Try selecting and copying a dish name, then use Find for a visible word. Follow with a suitable document accessibility check because selectable text alone does not prove logical reading order or broad accessibility.
- What file size is acceptable for a restaurant menu PDF?
There is no single honest threshold for every menu and connection. Record the actual bytes, test on named devices and realistic connections, and reduce unnecessary image weight without sacrificing legibility.
- Can Google index a restaurant menu PDF?
PDFs can appear in search, but that does not make a PDF-only route equivalent to a structured HTML menu page. Keep the owned HTML menu crawlable, internally linked and technically coherent; neither format carries an indexing or ranking guarantee.
- When should the mobile menu check be repeated?
Repeat it after each menu-file replacement, material menu update, navigation change, domain or URL change, and any website-template change that affects the mobile journey.