Downtown Riverside gets waves — a quiet Tuesday, then the Mission Inn lights up in November and the pedestrian mall fills with people who've never eaten here in their lives. A menu that shows the food handles both crowds: it reassures the regular and it sells the stranger.
Free to build and preview · $100/mo once you're live · No contract
Where we work in Riverside
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.
For six weeks every winter, downtown fills with families from across the Inland Empire who are choosing dinner off a phone while standing in a crowd. None of them know your menu. The restaurants that convert that traffic are the ones whose food shows up on a screen looking worth the wait — not the ones with a PDF link and a phone number.
UCR's population eats out constantly, on a budget, and decides entirely on their phones. Downtown's crowd is older, slower, and more likely to be celebrating something. One menu serves both, because video is honest about what a dish is and how big it is — which is what the student wants — while still making it look worth ordering, which is what the anniversary table wants.
Event nights, market days, game days — your menu should look different on those nights, and printing for them is absurd. Add an event section in the morning and pull it at midnight. Because the QR code points at a link that never changes, the codes you printed last year still work tonight.
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. We cover the Inland Empire as well as Orange County, and filming is on-site at your restaurant in a single scheduled visit.
A flat $100 a month per live menu, with unlimited dishes and categories. Building the menu and previewing it costs nothing — you pay when it goes live.
Yes. Dishes without a clip show as clean rows with a photo, and you can add video dish by dish or book the crew to shoot the whole menu at once.
Send us the menu you're using today. We'll build the video version for your Riverside restaurant and show it to you before anything goes live — no charge to look.
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