Carte
A live digital menu your kitchen controls - allergen-safe, always up to date.
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The problem with printed menus
Printed menus go stale. When a dish sells out, when prices change, when you swap an ingredient - that menu you paid to print is suddenly wrong. You're reprinting, throwing away, and your cost per page keeps climbing.
Meanwhile, UK food law requires you to give diners information about the 14 named allergens in everything you serve, and the Food Standards Agency now recommends doing it in writing. But a static menu doesn't help a diner actually filter for what they can eat - they have to ask, and you have to know.
Allergen filtering that actually works
Every dish on a Carte menu carries all 14 UK named allergen tags. Diners can tap to hide anything they're allergic to, or show only vegan, gluten-free, nut-free - whatever matters to them. Dishes can carry a "may contain" warning too. Update a price or mark a dish sold out and the menu changes instantly. No reprinting. No calls to the kitchen.
See it in action
This is a working Carte menu for a sample cafe. Search, tap "Allergies" to flag what you avoid, or tap a dish for its full allergen details.
Key features
14-allergen tagging
Every dish is tagged with the 14 named allergens plus "may contain" traces, with a dated record of when the kitchen last checked each one.
Diner filtering
Tap to hide allergens, show only vegan, gluten-free, nut-free - whatever they need to see.
One-tap sold out
Mark a dish sold out mid-service and the menu shows it straight away - hidden, or "Sold out today", your choice.
Edit from your phone
Change prices, add dishes and mark things sold out yourself, any time. Changes go live instantly.
Per-dish photos
Show a photo on any dish by pasting a link to it (an https web address). Uploading straight from your phone isn't built yet.
QR code & embed
Print-ready table QR cards, a kitchen allergen chart and a snippet for your website. No app to download.
Brand themes
Your brand colour runs through the menu, in light and dark mode, with text kept readable whatever colour you pick.
Owner dashboard
One screen for prices, sections, allergens and sold-outs, with an allergen-check score and how many people opened your menu.
What Carte doesn't do (yet)
Better you hear it from us now than find out after you've printed the QR codes.
- No ordering or payments. It's a menu diners read, not an order-at-table system or a till.
- No photo upload. A dish photo is a link to an image already online; uploading from your phone is on the list.
- No calorie labelling. Carte covers allergens, "may contain" and dietary labels, not nutrition.
- One menu at a time. No automatic lunch/dinner switching yet - use sections and the sold-out board instead.
- It can't check your recipes. The allergen information is what your kitchen enters and confirms. Carte keeps the dated record; the accuracy is yours.
How it works
Add your menu
Type your dishes in and tick their allergens - or send us your menu and we'll load it for you. Then confirm each dish against the recipe.
You get a QR code
Print the table QR cards from your dashboard, or paste the snippet into your website. Diners scan and start filtering.
Update any time
You control the menu yourself from the owner dashboard. Changes appear instantly. No reprints.
Who it's for
Get started
Start with a few dishes and add the rest whenever you have a minute. You can be live before the next service.
Set it up yourself
About ten minutes from your phone or laptop. You'll finish with your private dashboard, your public link and a short getting-started list that walks you to your first QR scan.
Start setting upAsk for an invite
Carte is invite-only while we onboard our first businesses, so every one gets a person to talk to. Tell us a little about your business and we'll reply with a code.
Email for an inviteLook around first
Both demos are real, working installs with made-up data. Try the customer side, then open the owner dashboard and change anything.
Customer demoOwner dashboard demoSimple pricing
A small setup fee if you'd like us to load and tag your menu, then a modest monthly to run and support it. We agree the price with you before anything is charged - there's no card to enter when you sign up, and no lock-in.
Get a quoteQuestions
Does Carte keep me allergen-compliant?
Carte shows the 14 UK named allergens and any "may contain" traces for every dish, records when each dish was last checked, and prints a dated allergen chart for the kitchen. You stay responsible for the accuracy of your allergen information - Carte makes it much easier to keep it right.
Do diners need an app?
No. Carte opens in any web browser from a QR code. Diners simply scan and start filtering - nothing to install, no app stores, no friction.
Can I update the menu myself?
Yes. You get an owner dashboard where you can update prices, toggle dishes as sold-out, add photos, and edit allergen tags - all in seconds, from any device, any time. Changes appear on the menu instantly.
Can it match my branding?
Yes. Your brand colour runs through the menu, and the venue name, tagline and allergy note are in your own words. Logos on the menu are not supported yet.
Ready to stop reprinting?
Let's get Carte on your site. A live, allergen-safe menu that updates in seconds.
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