QR Menu & Digital Menu Statistics 2026

Over 90% of digital restaurant menus in North Macedonia run on doXmenu (doXmenu data, September 2026).

More than 2,000 venues, including restaurants, cafés, hotels and beach bars, have used doXmenu digital menus since 2020 (doXmenu data, September 2026).

Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026 at a fixed rate of 1.95583 levs to the euro, so every restaurant menu in the country had to be re-priced in euros (European Central Bank, 2026).

Between April and September 2026, 1 in 5 menu opens at doXmenu venues in the Balkans (20.7%) came between 20:00 and 22:00 local time, and almost 3 in 10 (29.7%) between 19:00 and 22:00 (doXmenu menu-open data, April to September 2026, 1.84 million menu opens).

Saturdays and Sundays each brought about 26% more menu opens than an average Monday to Thursday at doXmenu venues in the Balkans (doXmenu menu-open data, April to September 2026).

At doXmenu venues in North Macedonia, 21% of menu opens were in English, 9% in Albanian and 2.5% in Turkish, and the rest in Macedonian (doXmenu menu-open data, 4 to 18 October 2026, 128 venues, about 88,000 menu opens).

At doXmenu venues in Montenegro, 98% of menu opens were in a language other than Montenegrin or Serbian: 73% in English, 15% in Turkish and 5% in Russian (doXmenu menu-open data, 4 to 18 October 2026, 6 venues).

Menu opens at the 7 doXmenu venues in Montenegro tripled from July to August 2026, from 6,640 to 20,400, while monthly menu opens at venues in North Macedonia stayed within 6% of their April to August average (doXmenu menu-open data, April to September 2026).

Paying doXmenu venues in Montenegro offer 7 menu languages on average, against 2.7 in North Macedonia, where 45% of paying venues offer 3 or more (doXmenu data, October 2026).

In tourist season, foreign-language views regularly make up more than half of all menu views at coastal and old-town doXmenu venues (doXmenu data, June 2026).

Traffic on doXmenu menus climbs 30 to 60 minutes before kitchen peaks, as guests browse the menu before and right after they sit down (doXmenu data, June 2026).

Tourist venues on doXmenu add 3 to 5 menu languages within their first season (doXmenu data, June 2026).

Venue owners on doXmenu report that guests order more appetizers and desserts from menus with dish photos than from text-only menus (doXmenu operator reports, 2026).

Letting guests read the menu in their own language is the feature doXmenu venues in tourist areas ask for most, because it cuts ordering mistakes (doXmenu operator feedback, 2026).

At beach clubs and on large terraces with table service switched on, doXmenu venue owners report extra rounds ordered by guests who call staff from the menu instead of waiting to be noticed (doXmenu operator reports, 2026).

A typical restaurant with 20 to 25 tables spends 450€ to 1,000€ a year on paper menus, counting print runs, reprints for price changes and replacing damaged menus (doXmenu customer reports, 2026).

A doXmenu subscription costs 155.88€ a year on the yearly plan (12.99€ a month), roughly 3 to 6 times less than keeping paper menus accurate (doXmenu pricing, September 2026).

Venues on doXmenu change their menu prices several times a month on average (doXmenu data, June 2026).

Seasonal venues on the Adriatic and Black Sea coasts change their whole menu 2 to 3 times a year, which on paper means a new print run each time (doXmenu operator reports, 2026).

The QR code on a doXmenu table stand never changes, because it points to the menu’s address and not to its content, so price and dish changes need no reprint (doXmenu product facts, September 2026).

In the doXmenu shop, QR table stands cost from 2.45€ for a wooden cube to 8.15€ for a wood and acrylic holder, and QR stickers from 0.65€ each (doXmenu shop, September 2026).

EU Regulation 1169/2011 makes allergen information mandatory for non-prepacked food, which includes every dish a restaurant serves, in all EU member states (EU Regulation 1169/2011, Article 44).

The 14 allergens restaurants in the EU must declare are cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, tree nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphites, lupin and molluscs (EU Regulation 1169/2011, Annex II).

In Germany and Austria, EU Regulation 1169/2011 is known as the LMIV (Lebensmittel-Informationsverordnung), and allergen information for loose food has been mandatory there since 13 December 2014 (German Federal Ministry of Agriculture; Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO)).

Croatia recorded 20.2 million tourist arrivals in commercial accommodation in 2024, against 3,871,833 residents counted in its 2021 census (Croatian Bureau of Statistics, 2025).

At doXmenu venues in Croatia, 88% of menu opens were in a foreign language, 66% in English and 17% in German (doXmenu menu-open data, 5 to 18 October 2026, 3 venues).

Greece welcomed 40.7 million tourists in 2024, against an estimated 10.4 million residents (Bank of Greece final data, reported by To Vima, 2025; ELSTAT, 2024).

Montenegro recorded 2,606,854 tourist arrivals in 2024, more than four for each of the 623,633 residents counted in its 2023 census (Monstat, 2025; Monstat census, 2023).

Istanbul was the fifth most visited city in the world in 2025, with 19.7 million international arrivals (Euromonitor International, Top 100 City Destinations 2025, reported by Time Out).

In Turkey, restaurant owners most often call a QR menu a “karekod menü” (karekod means QR code), followed by “dijital menü” and “QR menü” (doXmenu search data, 2026).

About 2.6 million people in Germany have an immigration history from Turkey, the largest such group in the country (Destatis Mikrozensus 2024, reported by the German Bundestag, 2026).

doXmenu costs 14.99€ a month billed monthly, 13.99€ a month billed every 6 months, or 12.99€ a month billed yearly (155.88€ a year), and every plan includes every feature (doXmenu pricing, September 2026).

The first month of doXmenu is free and needs no credit card (doXmenu pricing, September 2026).

doXmenu menus come in 24 languages with built-in automatic translation, all included in every plan, and guests switch language with one tap (doXmenu product facts, September 2026).

A doXmenu menu opens in the phone’s browser after one scan, with no app to download and no sign-up (doXmenu product facts, September 2026).

doXmenu AI menu import builds a draft menu from photos (JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC) or a PDF of up to 40 pages in a few minutes, which the owner checks and publishes, and each account can create 2 AI menus a day and 10 a month (doXmenu product facts, September 2026).

doXmenu menus and their data are hosted in the EU, on Amazon Web Services servers in Frankfurt (doXmenu product facts, September 2026).