Menu translation for restaurants

Your menu speaks one language. The customers you’re missing speak another.

Kaantaa turns your existing menu into a page that opens in your customer’s own language, on their phone.

Put your menu online free

About five minutes to set up. Free now, and free for life for a limited time.

Phone in hand, Kaantaa menu open in Spanish, light mode. Real device, real hand, restaurant table just out of focus. 700×980.
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One in five people are looking for your food in another language

Wherever you cook, some of the people nearby do not read the language on your menu. In the United States that is one in five residents before a single visitor lands. In Amsterdam, Dubrovnik or Antwerpen the number is not smaller.

Serve them and you are not picking up a rounding error. You are adding roughly a quarter more customers to the same dining room, on the same rent, with the same kitchen.

1 in 5

US residents speak a language other than English at home. Most of them live and eat where they live, all year round.

53–68M

visitors arrive from countries where English is not the first language, every year, on top of that. Peak season for you is their whole trip.

Residents: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Visitors: estimated from National Travel and Tourism Office international arrivals data.

It already knows what language they read

Your customer’s phone has been set to their language since the day they bought it. Kaantaa reads that and opens the menu in the right one. Nobody hunts for a flag, nobody asks a server for help, nobody gives up and orders the one word they recognise.

Light or dark follows their phone too. And if they want a different language, it is one tap.

Phone showing the menu in Spanish, light mode, phone’s language set to Español. 640×860.
Phone set to Spanish
Opens in Spanish. Light mode, because their phone is.
Same menu, same restaurant, English, dark mode. Shot to match the light one exactly so the pair reads as one feature. 640×860.
Phone set to English, dark mode
Same menu, same QR code, same second.

Translated properly, not word by word

A browser plugin will turn your signature dish into nonsense and your descriptions into something nobody would order. Kaantaa drafts every language in one pass and then hands it to you to check.

Names you invented stay exactly as you wrote them. Add a language later and the whole menu comes with it.

Grilled Octopus
Charred over kiawe wood, smoked paprika, lemon
21
Short Rib Adobo
Braised overnight, garlic rice, soft egg
26
Lilikoi Cheesecake
Passion fruit curd, macadamia crust
12
Menu shown in English
Before they ever walk in

A QR code only works once they’re already sitting down

The harder part is getting found in the first place. Your Kaantaa menu is a real web page in every language you publish, which means search engines and AI assistants can read all of it: every dish, every description, every price.

Someone searching for your food in Spanish finds it in Spanish. Someone asking an assistant where to eat nearby gets a menu it can actually read. A PDF cannot do this. Neither can a photograph of your menu sitting on your website.

restaurantes con pulpo cerca de mí
kaantaa.com › r › palm-ember
Menú en español de Palm & Ember
Pulpo a la parrilla, asado sobre leña de kiawe, pimentón ahumado, limón · 21
“Where can I get grilled octopus near here?”
Palm & Ember has grilled octopus, charred over kiawe wood with smoked paprika and lemon, for $21. Their menu is published in six languages.

Illustrative. What a structured, multilingual menu page makes possible, not a guaranteed ranking.

Five minutes, start to published

Signing up, finding your restaurant and uploading your menu takes about five minutes. The translations take a little longer depending on how many languages you pick.

01

Upload what you have

A photo of the printed card, a PDF, or typed text. However your menu exists today is fine.

02

Pick your languages and check the wording

We sort it into sections and items and translate it. You read down the list and fix anything we got wrong.

03

Publish and print the code

You get a menu page at your own address and a QR code you own. Change a price and it is live everywhere.

Limited spots

Free for life, if you tell us what’s wrong with it

We are pre-launch, and we would rather have twenty-five owners who talk to us than a thousand who quietly use it and disappear. Set up your menu, then tell us now and then what is working, what is missing, and what you would actually pay for.

Do that and your account stays free for life, whatever we end up charging everyone else. There are a limited number of these, and when they are gone they are gone.

Claim a free-for-life spot

No card. Cancel by closing the tab.

Table sticker or tent card with the QR code, on a real table. Cutlery and a glass in frame, warm restaurant light. 840×640.

One code on the table. Every language behind it.

Print it once. It keeps working after every price change, because the code points at your page and the page is yours to edit.

Put it on the table, in the window, in your bio, in your Google listing. More on QR code menus.

Change a price in seconds

Edit once and every language updates together. No reprint, no sticker over the old number.

Nothing to download

Your customer scans and reads. No app, no account, no email address at the door.

A menu page search engines can read

Its own web address, with every dish as real text in every language, not trapped in a PDF.

As many languages as you need

Start with two, add a fifth when a new crowd starts turning up. Nothing to redo.

Questions owners actually ask

What if a translation is wrong?

You review every line before it publishes and you can edit any item afterwards. Dish names you invented stay as you wrote them.

How long does it take?

About five minutes to sign up, find your restaurant and upload the menu. Translations add a little on top, depending on how many languages you choose.

Do I have to change my POS or ordering system?

No. Kaantaa is a menu page and a QR code. It sits next to whatever you already run and does not touch it.

Which languages can I publish in?

A growing set that already covers Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Croatian and Japanese, alongside English. If the one you need isn’t there yet, tell us and we’ll look at adding it.

Your menu is already written. Let more people read it.

Five minutes from now it could be open on a phone in a language you do not speak.

Put your menu online free