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In-Room Dining Menu: Running Room Service by QR Code

Hotels have unique digital menu needs: multiple venues, multilingual guests, room service. Here's how to handle them all.

Why Hotels Need a Different Approach

A standalone restaurant has one menu. A hotel might have a main restaurant, a pool bar, a lobby café, a rooftop terrace, and room service, each with a different menu, different hours, and guests who may speak any language in the world.

A generic QR menu tool handles one menu. doXmenu handles all of them from a single admin panel.

Setting one up for your property? The hotel QR menu page shows how room service, the restaurant and the pool bar each get their own menu and code, with real hotels that use it.

Multiple Venues, One Platform

Set up a separate digital menu for each hotel venue, and a unique QR code for each location. Guests at the pool get the pool bar menu. Guests in the room get the room service menu. Each menu is independently managed but all controlled from one account.

Multilingual Guests

International hotel guests speak dozens of languages. doXmenu supports menus in multiple languages simultaneously. Guests see the menu in their preferred language automatically, or switch with a single tap; Chinese, Arabic and Russian are among them (details). For a hotel in the United States that usually means English and Spanish on the same code first: see QR code menus for US restaurants, bars and hotels.

Room Service QR Codes

Print a doXmenu QR code on a card in every room. Guests scan it and browse the room service menu, with photos of every dish and descriptions in their own language, without calling the front desk to ask what is on it. Once you switch table service on, a call button on the same menu lets them request service.

Allergen and Dietary Information

Hotel guests are often health-conscious international travellers with specific dietary needs. Having clear allergen and dietary labels (vegan, gluten-free, halal) in multiple languages removes a major barrier and reduces pressure on staff to memorise every dish's ingredients.

Spa and Pool Bar Menus

Laminated printed menus at the pool get wet, torn, and stolen. A QR code on the umbrella stand or sunbed never deteriorates and can be updated instantly, add a new cocktail to the summer menu in 30 seconds.

doXmenu is used by hotels and resorts across the region. Start your free trial and see how it fits your property.

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