QR Code Menus for European Restaurants: The Complete 2026 Guide
QR menus are now standard across Europe's restaurant industry. This complete guide covers everything from EU allergen regulations to best practices for European hospitality.
A QR-kódos étlap you build yourself: Hungarian first, then English, German and 21 more languages on one code. Allergens by name on every dish, the napi menü live before noon, prices in forints changed from your phone.
Use a QR-kódos étlap you edit yourself. With doXmenu you write the menu in Hungarian, add English and German for visitors on the same QR code, mark the 14 EU allergens on each dish and keep prices in forints. Hungarian rules ask you to tell guests about allergens before they order, and a menu counts as written information. The first month is free; then 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, about 4,719 Ft.
Hungarian stays the main language. Guests switch to English, German or another of the 24 menu languages with one tap; auto-translation fills them in, and a line you correct by hand stays as you wrote it.
Mark the 14 EU allergens once per dish; guests see them by name next to the dish, in their own language, before they order. A notice in the venue tells them where to look.
9.9 million of the 19.5 million guests in Hungary’s tourist accommodation in 2025 came from abroad (KSH). English, German and the other visitor languages sit on the same QR code, one tap away.
Add the daily lunch menu in the morning, hide a dish with one tap when it sells out, change a price in forints during service. The printed QR code never changes.
Send your current étlap and logo on WhatsApp and the team builds your digital menu within 24 hours. New customers get 20 free QR stickers.
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.
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.
Allergen information is required for non-prepacked food, which includes every dish a restaurant serves, in every EU member state (Article 44).
Source: EU Regulation 1169/2011, Article 44Guests must be told about the allergens in a dish before they order; the information must be easy to reach and cost them nothing extra (Decree 36/2014 (XII. 17.) FM, § 4).
Source: Nemzeti Jogszabálytár, Decree 36/2014 (XII. 17.) FMThe information may be written or oral. Written means the menu, a board, a leaflet or a tablet, with a notice telling guests where to find it; oral information comes from trained staff, based on a written document shown to the guest on request.
Source: Nébih, allergen guide for caterers (PDF)Four steps from sign-up to the first guest reading your menu. Every change after that is live on every table at once.
Yes. Restaurants, cafés, bars and hotels anywhere in Hungary, from Budapest to Lake Balaton, Debrecen, Szeged and Pécs, can sign up and put their étlap online with a QR code today. doXmenu has no client venue in Hungary yet; La Veneziana in Linz, Austria, and Deja Brew Pub in Croatia show how a menu in several languages works: open doxmenu.com/laveneziana on your phone.
Yes. Hungarian is one of the 24 menu languages and can be the first one, so a guest’s first visit opens the menu in Hungarian. Guests switch to English, German or another language with one tap on the same QR code, and your dashboard can be in Hungarian too.
Guests must be told about the allergens in a dish before they order, at no extra cost (Decree 36/2014 (XII. 17.) FM, § 4). Nébih’s guide for caterers accepts written information on the menu, a board or a tablet, with a notice telling guests where to find it. With doXmenu the 14 allergens show by name next to each dish; the notice and the accuracy of each entry stay yours. This is our reading, not legal advice.
Yes. Add the day’s soup, main course and dessert from your phone before noon, hide a dish with one tap when it sells out, and every table sees the change at once, in every language you switch on.
12.99€ a month on the yearly plan (155.88€ a year), about 4,719 Ft at the MNB rate of 16 October 2026, 13.99€ a month billed every 6 months, or 14.99€ month to month, about 5,446 Ft, plus VAT where it applies. The first month is free with no credit card; there is no forever-free plan. No commission, no fee per table.
Yes. The doXmenu shop delivers to Hungary: table holders from 2.45€, a wind-resistant stainless steel stand from 5.99€ and QR stickers from 0.65€, all with free design. Or download your code and print it yourself.
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Add your dishes, pick a style and put the QR code on your tables. The first month is free.