How to Choose a QR Menu for the Middle East: An Honest Comparison for Gulf and Iraq Venues
Searching for the best QR menu in the Middle East? Test five things before you decide: Arabic rendering, languages, commission, setup time and total price.
Digital menus for restaurants, cafés and resorts in Cairo, Alexandria, Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh: Arabic and English from one QR code, Russian, German and Italian for resort guests, and prices changed from your phone.
Use a QR menu with Arabic right to left and English on one code, add Russian, German and Italian if you serve Red Sea tourists, and change prices from your phone. doXmenu does this among 24 menu languages for 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, about 15 USD, with the first month free and no card.
Arabic reads right to left, English left to right, on the same QR code. Guests switch language in one tap without the page reloading; 24 menu languages in total, translated automatically and editable by hand.
Russian, German and Italian for the guests in Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh, next to Arabic and English, from one QR code, translated automatically and editable by hand.
Change a price from your phone and every table sees it at once, in Egyptian pounds or any currency you type. No reprint, and the printed QR code stays the same.
Room service, restaurant, pool bar and lounge as separate menus that one account manages, with waiter call and bill request from the guest’s phone once you switch table service on.
All 24 menu languages are included in the price. Guests switch language with one tap, and a line you correct by hand stays as you wrote it.
The subscription is 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, about 15 USD at the ECB reference rate of 25 September 2026: 155.88€ a year, first month free. Your menu shows prices in Egyptian pounds or any currency you type and you change them from your phone as they move; only the subscription is billed in euro.
Where it pays off first: Cairo restaurants in Zamalek, Maadi and New Cairo serving Arabic and English guests and changing prices often; Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh resorts serving Russian, German and Italian tourists from one code, with room service and pool menus under one account; and Alexandria cafés that sell with photos.
Four steps from sign-up to the first guest reading your menu. Every change after that is live on every table at once.
No single QR menu is best for every venue, so compare the same points on each one: Arabic laid out right to left, how many languages and whether they are translated, allergens on every dish, how freely you can design it, and the yearly price with everything included. doXmenu’s answers: Arabic, English, Russian, German and Italian among 24 menu languages, the 14 allergens by name, 16 font styles and 70 colour palettes with your own logo, and 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan with the first month free. Shiriny Shaan in Iraq runs its menu on it.
Yes. Write it once, let it translate automatically, and correct any line by hand. Each guest picks a language with one tap: Arabic is laid out right to left, English left to right, with the same prices and photos. Turkish, French, Russian, German and more come from the same QR code.
Arabic and English, plus Russian, German and Italian for the resort guests in Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh. All of them come from one QR code, and each guest picks their own language in one tap.
doXmenu is 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan (about 15 USD), 13.99€ on the six-month plan or 14.99€ month to month. Every feature is included, the first month is free with no card, and there are no commissions or per-table fees. Prices on your own menu show in Egyptian pounds or any currency you type.
Yes. Restaurants, cafés and hotels in Cairo, Alexandria, Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh can sign up and go live today. Support is on WhatsApp in Arabic and English. The doXmenu shop does not deliver to Egypt, so you download the QR code and print it locally.
Searching for the best QR menu in the Middle East? Test five things before you decide: Arabic rendering, languages, commission, setup time and total price.
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Upload photos or a PDF of your menu and AI builds the draft, or add your dishes yourself. Pick a style, put the QR code on your tables. The first month is free.