A restaurant menu in every language your new customers speak
Publish a multilingual restaurant menu from the menu you already have. One page, as many languages as you need, one QR code, and every version updates the moment you change a price.
Translate your menu freeAbout five minutes to set up. Free now, and free for life if you help us build it.
Not just tourists, and not just in resort towns
Restaurants tend to think of a translated menu as something you do for visitors. Visitors matter, and there are tens of millions of them. But the bigger group may be the people who live four blocks away, shop in Spanish, watch television in Spanish, and hold a phone set to Spanish while they decide where to eat tonight.
Or Italian. Or French. Or Tagalog, Vietnamese, Arabic, Mandarin, Portuguese. Whichever ones show up in your city, they are showing up all year, not for one season.
US residents speak a language other than English at home. Serve them and you add about a quarter more customers to the same dining room.
visitors arrive each year from countries where English is not the first language, on top of everyone who already lives there.
Residents: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Visitors: estimated from National Travel and Tourism Office international arrivals data.
Nobody has to hunt for a flag
A menu with a row of little flags at the top still asks the reader to notice them, work out which one is theirs, and tap it. Plenty never do.
Kaantaa reads the language their phone is already set to and opens in it. Light or dark follows their phone too. Switching to another language is still one tap, for the people who want it.
They can find you in their language too
A translated menu at the table is worth something. A translated menu on the open web is worth more, because it works before anyone has chosen where to eat.
Every language you publish is a real page of real text. Search engines can read it. So can the AI assistants people increasingly ask for a dinner recommendation. Someone searching in Portuguese, or asking an assistant in Japanese, can turn up your dishes, your descriptions and your prices. A PDF menu is invisible to all of that, and so is a photo of your menu on your website.
Machine speed, your judgment
Doing this properly used to mean paying a translator by the word and waiting a week. Doing it cheaply meant a browser plugin turning your signature dish into nonsense.
Kaantaa drafts every language in one pass and hands it to you. You read down the list, fix the two lines that need fixing, and publish. Names you invented stay exactly as you wrote them.
Add a language later and the whole menu comes with it. Nothing to redo.
What changes at the table
People order past the safe dish
A guest who cannot read the description orders the one word they recognise. A guest who can read it orders the thing with the long description and the higher price.
Your servers stop translating
Nobody has to explain what is in the sauce across a language gap. That is minutes back on every table on a Friday.
Guests come back
A room where you were not able to read anything is a room you do not return to. It is rarely a complaint. It is just a table you never see again.
Pick the languages your street actually speaks
Some restaurants publish two. Some publish six. Start with the ones you hear at your own tables and add more when a new crowd starts turning up. If the one you need isn’t there yet, tell us and we’ll look at adding it.
The languages are the point. The rest comes anyway.
There is no translation plan and no menu plan. Every restaurant on Kaantaa gets all of this.
Your own QR code
Print it once for the table or the window. It keeps working after every menu change. More on QR menus.
A mobile menu page that fits the phone
Text reflows to the screen it is on. Nothing to pinch, zoom or drag sideways.
Found by Google and AI assistants
In every language you publish, not only the one you wrote the menu in.
Updates that go live instantly
One edit updates every language at once. No reprint and no re-translation.
Your own menu address
A link for a listing, a bio, or a text message. See menus already live.
Nothing to install, for anyone
No app for your customers, no software for you, and no change to your POS.
One in five people nearby are waiting to read this.
Free now, and free for life if you help us build it. Limited spots.
Translate your menu free