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.
Photo menus in Arabic and English for cafés, dessert shops and restaurants in Kuwait City, Salmiya and Hawalli: one QR code, a photo on every item, prices changed from your phone, and no commissions.
Use a QR menu with Arabic right to left and English on one code, a photo on every item and prices you change from your phone. doXmenu does this for 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, about 15 USD, first month free with no card and no commission on orders. You print the QR code locally.
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.
Every dish, drink and dessert can carry photos, a description, a price and allergens, with a full-screen dish page and a swipeable gallery. Photos load as the guest scrolls.
Prepare the iftar and suhoor sections in advance and keep them hidden, switch them on from your phone on the first evening, and run the iftar offer as a pop-up with its own start and end date.
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.
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 dinars or any currency you type; only the subscription is billed in euro.
Where it pays off first: cafés and dessert shops in Salmiya, Hawalli and Kuwait City, where a photo of every item and a pop-up for the new dessert do the selling; family restaurants with Arabic and English guests; and delivery-heavy venues that want a commission-free menu on the table next to the apps.
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 and English 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.
Yes. Every dish, drink or dessert can carry photos, a description, a price and allergens, and the guest opens it full screen with a swipeable gallery. A pop-up can show the new dessert or the drink of the week, with its own start and end date.
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 dinars or any currency you type.
Yes. Restaurants, cafés and hotels in Kuwait City, Salmiya, Hawalli and Al Ahmadi can sign up and go live today. Support is on WhatsApp in Arabic and English. The doXmenu shop does not deliver to Kuwait, so you download the QR code and print it locally.
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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.