Setting up your menu

Photograph the price list you already have and let Pekkish build the menu for you. Typing it out by hand is the fallback, not the starting point.

Start with the menu wizard

Most shops already have a menu — a printed card, a laminated board, a PDF the designer sent over. The wizard reads it and turns it into categories, products, prices and options you can edit, which takes minutes rather than an evening.

You'll find it in your shop admin under Menu → Categories → Import a menu, and on the Set up your shop checklist when you first sign in.

What to upload

A photo of your printed menu or price list — JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF
Or a PDF, up to 15 pages
Either way, up to 8 MB

A straight-on photo in decent light reads best. It doesn't need to be a perfect scan — a phone photo of a board on the wall is fine — but glare across the prices or a steep angle will cost you accuracy.

You'll also be asked which menu this is: a day menu (sandwiches, hot food, drinks) or a catering and buffet menu (platters, per-head boxes). Pick the wrong one and you'll get sections you didn't want, so it's worth a moment's thought — and if you run both, import them separately.

Review before anything goes live

Reading the menu takes under a minute, and the page refreshes itself when it's done. Nothing is written to your live menu until you say so.

You then get a draft to check, with the things worth a second look called out — the wizard tells you where it made a judgement call rather than quietly guessing. You can fix names and prices inline on that screen. When it looks right, press Import this menu and it's written into your menu for real.

How many imports you get

Every shop gets five imports up front — enough to get set up and retry a page that didn't read well — then one a day after that. A failed read doesn't count against your allowance; that one's on us.

Importing is limited to shop owners and admins, since it rewrites the menu wholesale. Staff can still build and edit the menu by hand.

When to skip it

If your menu is short enough to type in five minutes, or it's mostly build-your-own with lots of options, going straight to the manual steps below is often quicker than correcting a draft.

Editing what you get, or building by hand

Whether you imported a menu or are starting from nothing, everything below is how you edit it afterwards.

Products

Under Menu → Products, click New product. Each product needs:

Name — what the customer sees
Description — short and selling. "BLT" benefits from "Smoked back bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo, on white or brown bloomer."
Price — in pounds and pence
VAT rate — 0% (zero-rated takeaway food), 20% (standard), or whatever applies. If unsure, check with your accountant.
Category — where it lives
Image — optional but strongly recommended; products with images sell more
Allergens — tick every one of the 14 EU allergens that applies. This is a legal requirement (Natasha's Law) for anything pre-packed for direct sale.

The wizard won't fill in allergens or images for you — it can only read what's on the page it was given. Set allergens yourself on every product, imported or not.

Option groups for choices

Option groups let customers customise a product — bread choice, extras, cooking preference. Set them up under Menu → Option groups.

For each group, set:

Name — "Bread", "Extras", "Cook level"
Required? — must the customer pick at least one?
Minimum / maximum selections — typically 1 / 1 for required choices like bread; 0 / 5 for optional extras
Options — each option has a name, optional price modifier (e.g. "Cheddar +£0.50"), and any allergens it carries

Then attach option groups to products via the product edit page. A "BLT" might use the "Bread" group; an "All-day breakfast" might use "Bread" plus "Extras."

Meal deals

Set up bundle deals under Menu → Meal deals. A meal deal is a combination the customer builds from slots you define — e.g. "Sandwich + Snack + Drink" — where you choose which products qualify for each slot. You then price the whole combination one of three ways:

Fixed price — the whole combination for a set price, e.g. £6.00
Percentage off — e.g. 10% off the combination
Amount off — e.g. £1 off the combination

Active meal deals apply automatically at checkout when the basket matches the combination — the customer doesn't need a code.

Before you publish

Place a test order on your own storefront and walk through the full checkout
Confirm allergens are correct on every product — particularly anything the wizard brought in
Check the prices against your current card, especially if you imported from an older photo
Make sure your prices include VAT if applicable

Stuck on something? Contact support.