How to Make a Free Restaurant Menu
Your menu is one of the ways you represent your restaurant, so it needs to be consistent with the atmosphere and product that you are trying to sell. But that doesn't mean that it needs to be expensive. In fact, you can make your menu for free without having to spend unnecessary money on getting it designed and printed. It's an important way to remain frugal with your profit margins when building your restaurant business. Does this Spark an idea?
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Designing Your Restaurant Menu
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Decide the cuisine and the menu items that you want to offer and how often that you want the menu to change.
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Decide the items' cost and decide if you want the menu to be more casual or formal. This choice should be in line with the restaurant. If it's a white-tablecloth restaurant, then the menu needs to reflect that; if it's a more casual eatery, then the menu should also be casual.
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Separate the menu into the following categories: appetizers, soup and salad, entrees and desserts. They should go in the above order, but you can get creative in what you call them. For example, you can call appetizers "starters" or entrees "main courses."
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You can either design the menu very simply using a computer program like Microsoft Word or Adobe Illustrator or go to the Internet and look for free menu templates that will outline all of the different parts of the menu.
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Choose the color scheme as well. This means choosing colors that go well with one another and well with your restaurant. Make sure that the color scheme allows the menu to be easy to read. Choose the type color in the computer program that you use. You can do this by clicking the font color in the toolbar menu in both Word or Illustrator.
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Choose the kind of paper that you want to use. Choose the color scheme for the paper as well. If there is a high turnover at your restaurant--for example, if your restaurant serves faster food--you might want to either laminate your menu so that it doesn't become damaged or choose a regular paper menu that's inexpensive and easy to replace. If you have a more expensive restaurant, you can choose a heavier stock of paper and mount it on heavy cardboard. If your menu is large with a large wine list, you can put it under plastic covering in a binder form.
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Tips & Warnings
Proofread your menu over and over again to avoid typos.
