What your restaurant's QR code should open
A QR code is only as good as the page it opens, and once it is printed on a table tent or a window it is hard to change. Point it at the restaurant's hub address rather than a menu file or a booking site, and the code keeps working however often what sits behind it changes.
What to put on it
The menu first
Whoever scans at a table is usually after the menu, so make it the top row. If you have separate food and drink menus, list both, and keep their labels short enough to read on a small screen in a dim dining room.
Ordering and booking
For takeaway and delivery, link your own ordering page or each delivery app. For codes on the window or on receipts, put the booking link high up, since the person scanning is planning a next visit rather than sitting at a table.
Directions and contact
Add a map or your Google business profile for directions, a phone link and the WhatsApp chat if you use one. A code on a receipt may be scanned days later, at home, by someone trying to remember where they ate so well.
A review link
If you collect reviews, link to the page where guests leave one. Placed after the menu and booking rows, it is there for the guest who enjoyed the meal without being the first thing a hungry visitor sees.
A reason to follow
Give scanners something for pressing Super Follow, such as a private row on Pro with the dessert of the week or a code for the next visit. On Premium, a welcome message can arrive in their super box the moment they follow.
What restaurants.Best does differently
Print once
A QR code stores an address. If that address is restaurants.best/yourname, or yourrestaurant.restaurants.best on Pro, you can change the menu, booking service or delivery partner as often as you like and every printed code still opens the right page. No sticker on any table needs replacing.
A page made for a phone at the table
Someone scanning at the table wants the menu, perhaps the wine list, and later a way to leave a review. A hub shows those as rows they can tap with one thumb, and you can put whichever matters most at the top for the time of day.
Turn a scan into a follow
A scan comes from a guest already in the room. The Super Follow button on the hub lets them keep the restaurant after they leave, with one tap. Pro adds a private row for followers, and Premium lets the restaurant write to all of them from the hub.
How to set it up
Set up the hub
Create a free Starter hub and choose restaurants.best/yourname. Add the menu, booking, delivery and directions rows from the checklist. Unlimited links are included, so the hub can carry everything the code needs to open.
Settle the address before printing
Use restaurants.best/yourname from the start, or move to Pro first if you want yourrestaurant.restaurants.best in the code. Printed codes are hard to replace, so decide on the address before anything goes to the printer.
Make the code
Encode the hub address with the QR generator of your choice, and print the plain address under the code for guests who would rather type it. Test the printed proof with two or three different phones before ordering the full run.
Place it and keep the rows current
Put the code where guests have a free hand and a moment: table tents, the window, the bill folder, takeaway bags. From then on, change rows on the hub rather than the code, and on Pro check first-party click analytics to see which rows scanners tap.
Questions
- Should my QR code link to the menu PDF?
- Pointing it at the hub is safer. A code that opens a PDF stops working for every table the day that file is moved or renamed. A code that opens restaurants.best/yourname survives it: you update the menu row, and the codes already printed carry on as before.
- Does restaurants.Best make the QR code?
- The hub gives you the address to encode; making the code itself is done with a QR generator of your choice. Because the address stays the same when the hub changes, a code made once can stay on the tables for as long as the print lasts.
- Can the same code work for dine-in and takeaway?
- Yes, if the hub is ordered sensibly: menu first, then ordering, then booking and directions. A guest at the table taps the menu; one holding a takeaway bag taps the reorder link. Separate rows serve both without a second code.
- Can I see what guests tap after scanning?
- On Pro, first-party click analytics show which rows on the hub guests tap after they arrive, whether they came from a table code, a window sticker or the Instagram bio. Premium adds advanced click and follower statistics on top of that.
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