Digital QR Menu for Germany Restaurants: The 2026 Guide
From Berlin restaurants to Munich beer gardens, German venues are adopting digital QR menus. Here is why owners choose doXmenu, including allergen labeling and GDPR-friendly design.
Build the Speisekarte yourself, mark the 14 allergens on each dish, add English, Turkish or any of 24 menu languages, and change a price from your phone. Menus and data stay in the EU, on servers in Frankfurt.
Use a QR menu you edit yourself. With doXmenu you build the Speisekarte in German, mark the 14 LMIV allergens on each dish, add English, Turkish and other guest languages, and print one QR code for every table. Keep the printed price list by the entrance that § 13 PAngV asks for. The first month is free.
Mark the 14 allergens on each dish once. Guests see them by name next to the dish, in their own language, and you update them the moment a recipe changes.
German stays the main language. Guests switch to English, Turkish, Italian or another of 24 menu languages with one tap; auto-translation fills them in, and a line you correct by hand stays as you wrote it.
Menus and data sit on Amazon Web Services servers in Frankfurt am Main, inside the EU. Guests open the menu in the browser, with no app and no account.
Add the dish of the day in the morning, hide it with one tap when it sells out, change a price during service. The printed QR code never changes.
Upload photos or a PDF of your current menu and AI builds a draft in a few minutes, translated into your other menu languages. You check it and publish.
12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, with every feature and all 24 languages. No commission, no fee per table or per language.
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.
Prices for food and drinks go in a price list that lies on the tables, is shown to every guest before ordering, or is posted where it is easy to read. A price list with the main dishes and drinks also hangs next to the entrance, and all prices include service and surcharges (§ 13 PAngV).
Source: gesetze-im-internet.de, § 13 PAngVThe 14 main allergens must be declared for loose food too: in writing, electronically or orally, but orally only with written documentation in the venue and a clearly visible notice saying so (LMIV and LMIDV).
Source: Federal Ministry (BMLEH), allergen labellingAdditive notes such as "with colouring", "with preservative" or "contains caffeine" go on the menu or on an information sheet (LMZDV).
Source: City of Munich, sample menu (PDF)Open any linked name to see its live menu, exactly as its guests see it.
Four steps from sign-up to the first guest reading your menu. Every change after that is live on every table at once.
Yes. Mi Cafecito in Germany runs its menu on doXmenu in German, English and French: open doxmenu.com/micafecito on your phone. Across the border, La Veneziana and La Veneziana 2.0 in Linz, Austria, do the same.
We have not found an explicit ban. § 13 of the Price Indication Ordinance (PAngV) does ask for a price list on the tables or shown to each guest before ordering, plus one next to the entrance. So the entrance list stays, and a few printed menus for guests without a phone are wise. This is our reading, not legal advice.
You mark the 14 allergens on each dish and guests see them by name next to the dish, in their language. Additive notes under the LMZDV, such as "contains caffeine" or "with colouring", go in the dish description. The written allergen documentation for your staff and inspectors stays your job.
Yes. Switch on any of the 24 menu languages, among them English, Turkish, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. Each guest picks a language with one tap on the same QR code, and any line you correct by hand stays as you wrote it.
In the EU: menus and data are stored on Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers in Frankfurt am Main. Guests open the menu in the browser, with no app, no download and no account.
12.99€ a month on the yearly plan (155.88€ a year), 13.99€ a month billed every 6 months, or 14.99€ month to month, plus VAT where it applies. The first month is free with no credit card; there is no forever-free plan.
From Berlin restaurants to Munich beer gardens, German venues are adopting digital QR menus. Here is why owners choose doXmenu, including allergen labeling and GDPR-friendly design.
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Allergen software in your digital menu lets EU restaurants mark the 14 allergens on every dish, show them by name in the guest’s language and keep them current without reprinting.
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.