$500/mo
Printing
Print in-house with professional quality. 10 custom PDF templates, corporate colors, premium fonts. $0 monthly vs $500 traditional printer.
THE FIRST 100% NATIVE AI MENU PLATFORM 🚀
The laminated menu says 'homemade cake'. Nobody knows which one it is today or what's in it. The display case is still full at 6 pm.
Counter AI
29 Languages
14 Days Free
Stylish QR
The laminated menu says 'homemade cake'. Nobody knows which one it is today or what's in it. The display case is still full at 6 pm.
Change the cake of the day and this week's coffee origin from your phone. The QR updates instantly, nothing to reprint.
Don't just write 'Carrot cake'. Show an irresistible AI-generated photo. The customer who came for a coffee leaves with a slice too.
— 01 / Operations
Every dollar saved is a dollar invested in your restaurant
$500/mo
Printing
Print in-house with professional quality. 10 custom PDF templates, corporate colors, premium fonts. $0 monthly vs $500 traditional printer.
$55/h
Designer
Customize colors, fonts, layout with zero design skills. Intuitive sliders any waiter can use in 2 minutes.
50
Clicks → 1 Message
GASTON bulk ops: "Raise $1 on all drinks" — updates 50 products in 10 seconds vs 30 minutes of manual clicking.
5
Min Multilingual
Hotel emergency: translate 5 menus to a rare language in 5 minutes. No human translator ($720), no delay (1 day). Instant, $0.
— Real case / 02
Result: $0 cost, instant, event saved
— 02 / Asistente IA
You pull shots, Gaston handles the menu: changes the daily special, translates and manages the allergens in your display case for you.
Upload a photo of your menu or your chalkboard and Gaston turns it into a digital menu without you typing a thing.
Ejemplo real:
"Menú PDF 130 productos → 5 minutos → Categorías, secciones, descripciones IA, traducciones"
No need to sit at a computer. Send Gaston a voice note between coffees.
"Make the carrot cake today's special"
"Change this week's single origin to Ethiopia"
"Mark the croissants as sold out"
"Raise oat milk drinks by 20 cents"
90
Funciones
∞
Categorías
100%
Por Chat
Included in your 14-day trial
— 03 / Manifiesto
Real Solutions
We know what a morning rush with a queue at the counter feels like. IAMenu takes the weight off your shoulders.
Nobody knows what's in each cake. 'Does this have walnuts? And gluten?' gets asked twenty times a day.
→Every pastry with its 14 EU allergens detected by AI, visible on the customer's phone.
Cake of the day, seasonal bowl, coffee origin of the week: the printed menu is always behind.
→You change it from your phone in 30 seconds and the QR updates instantly. Zero reprints.
Explaining what a pain perdu is or what's in the bowl, in improvised English, table by table.
→Menu translated automatically. Customers read in their language and order with confidence.
The single-origin flat white and the 6-euro matcha look like 'just another coffee' on a text-only menu.
→Photos and descriptions that explain the value. Customers understand what they pay for and order it.
— 04 / Capacidades
Specialty-chain quality for your independent coffee shop
Your logo, your colors.
English for brunch, German for the summer.
Appetizing photos of your cakes and coffees generated with AI.
Specialty-chain quality for your independent coffee shop · Customized QR • Automatic Translation • Allergen Control • Virtual Photographer • Spy on Your Menu • Counter Copywriter
— 05 / Por qué
Higher average ticket, fewer repeated questions, zero reprints
If you know how to use WhatsApp, you know how to use IAMenu.
No commissions on sales. Just a flat fee for the software.
With great photos, the customer who came for a coffee also takes a slice of cake.
Stand out from the coffee shop next door with a 21st-century menu.
We're choosing our first 100 restaurants. They get the founding price, locked for life: you renew every year at the same price, forever. When the seats are gone, they're gone.
You renew every year at the founding price. Even if IAMenu raises prices, yours never moves.
If it's not for you, we refund every euro. No questions, no fine print.
No card needed. Upload your menu and watch the AI build it before you decide.
The founding price is kept while your subscription stays active. No lock-in: cancel anytime.
— 07 / Casos reales
Three types of café, one digital menu adapted to each daily operation
Specialty coffee · the filter coffee changes origin every week
— Desafío
The filter coffee changes origin every week (Ethiopia, Colombia, Kenya...) and each origin has its own tasting notes and brew method. On a printed menu it is impossible to keep up: either it stays as a generic 'filter coffee' and the specialty value is lost, or you reprint every week. The result is that customers don't understand why a V60 costs more than a latte.
Solución
With IAMenu: the barista updates the origin of the week from their phone in 30 seconds — name, tasting notes and brew method. Gaston writes the description that explains the value ('jasmine and citrus notes, washed process') and the system translates it automatically into the active languages. The digital menu always reflects what's in the grinder that morning, without touching a printer.
The origin of the week always up to date without reprinting, descriptions that justify the specialty price, and customers who order out of curiosity instead of ordering 'the usual'.
Brunch café · mostly international customers on weekends
— Desafío
On weekends most tables are tourists. Explaining what's in the açaí bowl, what shakshuka is, or whether the pancakes contain nuts drains the team right at peak hour, with a queue at the door and plates coming out of the kitchen. The team is small and there is no room to play translator table by table.
Solución
With IAMenu: the customer scans the QR and reads the brunch menu in their language, with photos of every dish and the 14 EU allergens flagged automatically by AI. They decide before the server reaches the table and order by pointing at the exact dish. Translations understand gastronomic context: local dishes get explained, not translated literally.
Fewer repeated questions at peak hour, tables that decide faster, and a small team that serves instead of translating.
Artisan bakery · the display case changes with each day's bake
— Desafío
The display case changes with whatever comes out of the oven and nobody knows for sure what's in each piece. Tree nuts, gluten, eggs and dairy are in almost everything, and answering 'does this cake have walnuts?' with confidence means memorizing every recipe. An allergen mistake in pastry is not an inconvenience: it is a real risk for the customer and a legal liability for the business.
Solución
With IAMenu: every piece in the display case lives on the digital menu with its photo (AI-generated if there is no photographer) and its allergens detected automatically in line with EU Regulation 1169/2011. The AI knows a classic carrot cake contains tree nuts, gluten, eggs and dairy even if you only type the name. The baker can always review and adjust manually.
Reliable allergen answers that don't depend on the team's memory, customers with intolerances who buy with confidence, and a display case customers can understand from their phone.
— 08 / Conclusión operativa
Most digital menu apps offer a nice PDF and call it innovation. IAMenu has pillars of real AI running in production today, designed for the concrete daily operation of a coffee shop too:
Crea y actualiza menú con Gaston: categorías, subcategorías y productos.
Personaliza vista cliente: textos, colores, tipografías, estilos y layouts.
Escala con control: idiomas, permisos por rol y analytics del menú web.
A conversational assistant with around 90 functions that manages your menu by chat or voice. Say 'make the cheesecake today's special and mark the cold brew as sold out' and it's done in seconds. It imports your current menu from a photo or PDF and turns it into a complete digital menu. At peak hour, your menu gets managed without putting down the steam wand.
GPT-4o-mini with professional gastronomic context. It knows a 'cortado' stays a cortado, that local dishes get explained rather than translated literally, and that 'carrot cake' needs no invention. A 29-language catalog with coffee shop, brunch and pastry terminology that generic translators butcher.
Automatic detection of the 14 EU allergens (Regulation 1169/2011) with expert inference: it knows a classic brownie contains gluten, eggs, dairy and very likely tree nuts even if you only type 'Brownie'. In pastry, where nuts and gluten are in almost everything, this is real safety, not a checkbox.
Professional photo generation built into the dashboard. Appetizing photos of your cakes, bowls and latte-art coffees without booking a photo shoot, included in your plan (from 10 to 75 AI photos per month depending on plan). Your display case looks as good on the phone as it does on the counter.
4 writing styles combined with 4 lengths, adapted to your menu. Turn 'Matcha latte' into a description that explains the tea's origin, the creaminess and why it is worth 6 euros. The AI knows your categories, your products and your brand's tone.
Write 'Nordic specialty coffee shop, light wood and cream tones' and the AI generates a complete color palette coherent with your space. Your digital menu inherits the aesthetics of your coffee shop, not a generic software template.
Competitors: a PDF with a QR and a generic translator disguised as AI. IAMenu: real AI running in production today, applied to the daily operation of a coffee shop. That is the difference between AI marketing and real technology.
Ver comparativa honesta— 10 / TRANSPARENT COMPARISON
Total transparency. This is what IAMenu does better than the competition and also what we do not do, because we prefer to be honest rather than promise you everything:
| Feature | IAMenu | Alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| Menu translation | 29-language catalog with gastronomic AI that respects terms like 'cortado', 'flat white' or 'pain au chocolat' in context | Manual translation item by item or literal generic translation with no culinary context |
| Allergens in pastry | Automatic detection of the 14 EU allergens with classic-recipe inference: a brownie implies gluten, eggs, dairy and tree nuts | Manual tagging piece by piece or no allergen management at all |
| Display case photos | Integrated GPT Image: professional photos of cakes and coffees generated right from the dashboard | Only allow uploading your own photos or offer no photo option at all |
| Chat and voice management | Gaston, a conversational assistant with around 90 functions: change the daily special with a voice note from behind the bar | Classic admin forms and panels, no assistant |
| Pricing model | Flat fee from 19 to 69 euros per month, zero commissions on your sales | Per-order commissions or hidden costs that grow with your revenue |
| Product focus | An excellent digital menu: content, photos, allergens and languages, with optional QR ordering and reservations if you need them | Scattered all-in-one: POS, accounting and delivery without excellence in anything |
IAMenu does NOT do tax invoicing, does not process payments inside the app and has no delivery riders of its own. It is a conscious product decision: we are the complement to your POS, not its replacement. We prefer to do the digital menu, photos, allergens and translations excellently rather than offer ten mediocre features.
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A coffee shop does not run like a restaurant: the offer rotates every morning (the cake of the day, the seasonal bowl, this week’s coffee origin), the team is small and nobody has time to reprint menus or hire a designer. With IAMenu you update the special from your phone in 30 seconds, and the menu translates itself using AI translation with gastronomic context (a 29-language catalog) for the tourist-packed weekend brunch.
And for the everyday grind behind the bar there is the AI Assistant (Gaston): send it a voice note between coffees ("mark the croissants as sold out, make the cheesecake today’s special") and the menu is up to date, translated and with allergens, without sitting at a computer. There is also a full guide for this vertical on the blog: digital menus for coffee shops, cafés and bakeries.
The cake of the day, the seasonal bowl or the weekly filter origin change every morning. On paper, the menu is always behind; with IAMenu you update it from your phone in 30 seconds and the QR reflects it instantly, in every language. When it sells out, you switch it off with one tap.
In pastry, tree nuts, gluten, eggs and dairy are in almost everything, and "does this cake have walnuts?" gets answered from memory far too often. The AI detects the 14 EU allergens (Regulation 1169/2011) per product, with classic-recipe inference, and customers see them on their phone with clear icons.
Customers scan, read the brunch menu in their language and decide before you reach the table. Fewer repeated questions at peak hour and a small team that serves instead of translating. Translation respects café terminology: a "cortado" stays exactly that.
With AI-generated photos, every cake, bowl and specialty drink gets an appetizing image without a photo shoot. The 6-euro matcha stops looking like "just another coffee": the photo and description explain what makes it special, and the customer who came for a coffee takes the pastry too.
| Feature | Paper Menu / Chalkboard | Basic QR Menu | IAMenu |
|---|---|---|---|
| Updating the cake of the day | Crossing out or reprinting | Editing a PDF and re-uploading | 30 seconds from your phone (or by voice) |
| Allergens in pastry | Generic sign or from memory | Manual tagging piece by piece | AI 14 EU allergens with recipe inference |
| Brunch menu for tourists | One language only | Literal generic translation | Gastronomic AI translation (29-language catalog) |
| Display case photos | No photos | Upload your own | GPT Image included in your plan |
| Chat / voice management | No | No | Gaston (~90 functions) |
| Monthly cost | Reprint on every change | 15-50 euros/month | 19 - 69 euros/month, no commissions |
The filter coffee changes origin every week. The barista updates it from their phone with the tasting notes ("jasmine and citrus, washed process") and Gaston writes the description that explains why a V60 is worth its price. The menu always reflects what is in the grinder that morning, without touching a printer.
Weekend, queue at the door, tables full of tourists. Every customer reads the menu in their language, with photos and flagged allergens, and decides before the server arrives. The small team serves instead of explaining what is in the açaí bowl table by table.
The display case changes with each day’s bake. Every piece goes on the digital menu with its AI photo and its allergens detected automatically in line with EU Regulation 1169/2011. "Does it have walnuts?" gets answered with data, not memory, and customers with intolerances buy with confidence.
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