A café menu changes more often than almost any other kind. The pastry case is different every morning, the seasonal drink lasts six weeks, and the espresso board on the wall has been wrong since March because rewriting it takes an hour. A menu you edit from your phone in ten seconds solves a problem you've just learned to live with.
Free to build and preview · $100/mo once you're live · No contract
What cafés get out of it
Fast, visual, and mobile-first — made by people who've stood in your kitchen, not just behind a screen.
Guests watch every dish before they order — confident orders, fewer questions, more of what you want to sell.
One menu everywhere: table QR codes, counter tablets, and a shareable link. Everything stays in sync.
Put your menu in your Instagram and TikTok bio — turn followers into diners at your door.
Change a price or hide a sold-out dish; it's live everywhere at once.
No reprints, no re-setup. Manage the same menu forever.
Nuts, vegan, gluten-free — clear for every guest.
Opens instantly in any phone's camera and browser.
Our crew shoots your dishes on-site, in one visit.
Want us to keep it updated for you? We do that too.
You bake or take delivery in the morning, and by two o'clock half of it is gone. A printed board can't track that, so guests order things you don't have and staff spend the day apologizing. Hide a sold-out item from your phone and the menu everyone's scanning is instantly correct — which is worth more at a café than anywhere else.
"Brown sugar oat shaken espresso" tells a guest almost nothing. Five seconds of the pour, the shake, the layers settling tells them everything and sells the upgrade. The big chains have known this for a decade and put a photo on every screen they own — video is simply the better version of that, and it costs you one filming visit.
Most of the wait in a café isn't the drink, it's the deciding. Guests who browse the menu on their phone while they're in line — or before they walk in — arrive at the counter knowing what they want. That's real throughput at 8am, and it's the same reason order-ahead through Square is worth turning on.
You stay in the kitchen. We handle the build. Three steps, zero software headaches.
Any format — PDF, photos, or a quick chat. We take it from there.
Branding, categories, dish videos, QR codes and table menus — all done for you.
Edit prices and dishes in seconds. Set up once, update forever.
Yes — Ape Coffee in Orange, CA runs a HeyPlates video menu. Email hello@heyplates.com and we'll send you the link so you can scan it yourself.
Yes, from your phone. Hiding a sold-out pastry takes one tap and is live everywhere immediately.
No. Start with the signature drinks and whatever you want to sell more of — everything else shows as a clean row with a price. You can add clips whenever you like.
Send us your current menu board or price list. We'll build the video version for your café and show it to you before anything goes live.
Reach out
Send the form and we'll be in touch within a business day.
We build it
We turn your existing menu into a polished video menu.
You're live
Get your QR codes and start sharing — manage it anytime.
Prefer email? hello@heyplates.com