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You’ve done the hard work: you’ve created a list of awesome menu items and can’t wait to get them in front of your customers. But there’s one big step left: you have to choose or create your menu template.

So you start looking for a tool that can help you create your menus. First step: you run some searches on Google.

The results are overwhelming: there are dozens of sites out there (and probably more) that claim to be “the best,” or “the most customizable,” or “the easiest” way for you to make your menu. They offer 1,000, 6,000, 10,000, or more menu templates.

But you don’t want or need 6,000 menu templates—you need the one that’s right for your bar. And all the claims of “best” and “easiest?” That stuff’s even worse because it’s an advertisement: of course these companies will say their own menus are the best.

So how on earth can you actually find the right menu template for your bar or restaurant?

We wrote this article to cut through the noise and help small business owners actually answer that question. Read on to learn how to choose the right menu template for your bar or restaurant.

If you’re considering using iMenuPro, there are several things you certainly understand:

• Great menu design is important for a successful restaurant or bar.
• A restaurant menu maker can help save time and money.
• A really good menu design can help to increase sales.

If you’re considering MustHaveMenus for your restaurant or bar, chances are good that something broke down with your manual menu-making process.

So here we all are. Reopening. In a new, hopefully sometime soon, post-pandemic world.

You’ve reopened your bar or restaurant soon and it feels like until then you'll be playing one long, drawn out game of whack-a-mole.

Of the million things members of the restaurant industry have to figure out, from inconsistent government rules to getting back on track with your distributors, there’s one big thing hanging over your head: your menu.

How in the world are you going to do it? How can you provide a contactless menu experience that gives customers an up-to-date, customized menu when you've only ever provided physical menus? How can you provide a menu with descriptions for your ever changing beer list? And how can you do it without spending hours on the computer each week?

Here’s a secret: you can do it in real-time, with just one click. Read on to learn how to create and maintain an awesome digital menu—and the QR code that sends customers to it—with just one click.

There's a whole lot more to menu optimization than choosing the right menu items. This is especially true with your beer menu, where additional sales are exactly the kind of low-hanging fruit you've been searching for.

Use these 11 ideas to make the best beer menu you can and immediately start driving up your average check size.

It's a good time to be a beer lover. There are now more than 5,000 breweries in the United States alone—that's twice as many as there were just four years ago.

But there's another trend—a more subtle change—that's influencing the way restaurants, bars, and taprooms sell beer. Brewers Association economist Bart Watson calls it “premiumization.”

From retro to clean, simple to bold, these are the best beer menu templates we saw this year.

Read on and learn more about these awesome beer menu designs, see how these businesses made them, and get inspiration for your own beer menu template!

Well, my cook didn’t show up so I had to cook, then my bartender was sick the next two days so I had to bartend/serve, then I went on a much needed 4 day break away and now I am back trying to catch up with all that didn’t get done before I left and since I left. Not to mention my other cook now has not showed up...

Sound familiar?

In a world where that's your reality—which is a world you live in every day—how could you possibly have time to make a better beer menu? There's way, way, way too much to do to spend time on that.

But making your beer menu doesn't have to be a timesuck!

Read on to learn how to make your beer menu updates take minutes instead of hours, all while having a professional-looking menu template.

You already did what you assumed was the hardest part: you built an awesome craft beer program. You get hard-to-get kegs, you advertise well on social media and elsewhere, and customers seem happy when they're drinking their beer.

But still, your beer sales aren't as high as you'd like them to be.

What's going on?

The answer is your beer menu.

A great beer menu—with beer descriptions—makes it easier for customers to find the right beer for them. It speeds up their ordering, so that they spend more time drinking (and buying your beer) and less time deciding on which beer to drink.

That time savings adds up, so that by the end of the night those customers have had one or maybe two more beers than they otherwise would have.

Just like that, your beer sales finally climb to where you want them to be.

Read on to learn how to use BeerMenus to create an awesome beer menu—beer descriptions included—with just one click.

Use the "Coming Soon" menu section to highlight great beers coming soon or manage your upcoming beer selection. Get customers excited about the great beers you're about to tap, and save time managing your beer inventory.