Understanding the basics of menu printing is crucial for maximizing your revenue, menu design, and marketing efforts.
It is primarily a plastic or laminated sheet that details food, drinks, services, or other products that your business offers.
Menus are your primary communication tool between you and your customer. A menu describes what your restaurant or business offers, showcases your brand's identity, helps set your business's budget, and promotes other programs you offer.
We design and print a variety of menus that inform your guests, help you boost revenue and are visually appealing. Some of our most popular options are:
Menus are the one item that almost every customer will see and touch. Meaning that the way you design your menu can be influential to what a customer purchases. Make the most of your menu design by:
The size of your plastic menu depends on the number of products or services that you have to display on your menu. We have a variety of different types of menus to meet your needs.
A tri fold menu and spiral bound menus are designed to hold more information. With multiple pages available, it gives you more creative space to add photos, write descriptions and create cohesive branding.
Our flat menu option is the perfect solution for smaller restaurants, bars, coffee shops, pizza restaurants and more. This plastic menu gives you just the right amount of space to detail your specialized products and display your branding.
Need more help? Contact UsYes, our menus are water-resistant. Laminated menus prevent water from soaking into the material and ruining the content. Using laminated menus helps prolong your menus life so that you do not have to replace them as much.
Need more help? Contact UsOur professional design experts recommend that you do not print any of your text in a font size that is smaller than 12. They also suggest that you use black as your base color and do not use a reverse type font.
When designing your custom menus, remember to keep it simple. You want your menu to be easy to read and not make your customer confused or upset.
We suggest that you do not put text over a picture. The text can get lost in the image and be hard to read. If you do choose to use an image on your plastic menu, make sure to give your designer a high-resolution photo for a clean and crisp picture.
Finally, we highly recommend getting your custom menus UV coated. UV coating helps the menu withstand substantial wear and tear ensuring that your content and branding stay intact.
It is important to only put as many products or services on your plastic menu that your business can handle. This amount is different for every business, some businesses only have a couple of products. While others, have twenty of them. It all depends on the industry you are in and the capacity of your company.
Need more help? Contact UsOur most common shape and style menu is an 11 x 8.5 flat menu.
The most common types of menus are:
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