Publishing a menu that stays true to what the kitchen serves.
Guests who booked on a quoted per-head price can arrive to a higher bill and a dispute at the table. Tell new guests one way and booked parties another, in writing.
Guests check the wine list on a phone before they book. When it is a photo or a PDF, the glass and bottle prices are the first thing to go missing.
A guest with an allergy reads the menu online before ordering. When the allergen sheet sits apart from the dishes, it can be wrong the day a recipe changes.
Latin dish names are the menu's identity, but a guest new to the food searches in everyday words. A plain line under each dish closes that mismatch without losing the names.
A children's page typed online without a plan ends up scattered or copied. Parents scroll past everything, and a duplicated row risks an outdated allergen line.
A retyped menu row can show sea bass under a lamb photograph with the lamb's stale allergen ticks. A new row for a new dish means every field was set for the plate being served.
When the large size, the paid topping and the choice of base sit only in the description, guests cannot pick them. The extra goes unsold and the kitchen chases a missing choice.
A menu still in the chef's notebook means a missing menu online in opening week. Built by hand as dishes are confirmed, it reaches the same live menu a scan would.
On a live site, once a scanned menu is applied, saving is publishing. A misread decimal point that nobody checked becomes the wrong price a guest sees and orders at.
Food inflation held at 1.3% in August while the classes inside it did not move together. A flat percentage rise still cannot show which dish's own cost outran the average.
Written allergen information belongs on the main menu, or ideally one click away. Most owners have never counted the taps to it, or seen that their PDF is outdated.
Wrap a sandwich before a guest chooses it and the law stops accepting a verbal answer. A missing label on that packet is a breach of a labelling requirement, not a service lapse.
