Electronic menu for restaurants in Lebanon, free
Send a PDF, photos or a text and ala.menu builds your electronic menu in minutes, in your colours and type, Arabic right to left or English, with a QR that never changes and one link for your Instagram bio, free. Diners order from it into your WhatsApp at 0% commission, with cash, a Whish or OMT transfer, Whish Pay or a card through your own bank on Plus.
Used in Beirut by The Protein Bar, six of Fakhani Gourmet’s branches, Harbs Bakery and Joy Beirut.
Free, no card; ordering and payments on Plus from $49 a location.
What you get, and the plan it is on
A menu today, no designer
Send a PDF, up to five photos of the printed menu, or a written description. The AI builder types the items, prices and sections into a menu in your colours. No quota on it. Free.
Looks like your brand
More than 20 cuisine templates, 11 item card layouts and 53 fonts, with your logo and colours. All of the design side is on Free.
Arabic that reads right
Publish in Arabic, right to left with a real Arabic webfont, or in any one of 21 languages as your base, free. A switcher between languages, with AI translation, is Plus.
A QR you print once
The code points at a short address allocated once and never reissued, so a new price or a new name never means a reprint. Free; your logo and colours on the code are Plus.
Your Instagram link sells
One link in your bio opens the live menu, and the diner’s order arrives in your WhatsApp written out, at 0% commission. Free.
Change it from your phone
Edit a price at 11pm and the menu is right at 11:01. No reprint, no designer, no waiting.
Live in three steps
1. Send the menu
PDF, photo, or type a description of what you serve. It comes back built.
2. Make it yours
Pick a template, drop in your logo and colours, reorder the sections.
3. Print the QR
One code for the tables and one link for the bio. Both survive every later edit.
What you get
Ordering
- Website ordering with delivery zonesPlus
- WhatsApp orderingFree
- Order board with statusesPlus
- Live order tracking for dinersPlus
Customers and marketing
- Loyalty stamps with Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passesPro
- Offers and promo codesPlus
- Review collectionPlus
- Customer listPlus
- Customer CSV exportPro
- Order and sales analyticsPlus
Design and menu
- More than 20 templatesFree
- 11 item card layoutsFree
- 53 fontsFree
- QR designer, 4 dot patternsPlus
- Arabic menus, right to leftFree
- AI translation, 21 languagesPlus
- AI menu builder from a PDF or photoFree
Brand and domains
- Custom domainPro
- White label, no "Powered by" badgeBusiness
- Branches, priced per locationPlus
Team and integrations
- Team rolesPro
- POS sync and APIBusiness
- AI waiterPlus
Lebanon, spelled out
- Payment rails you can switch on
- Cash on delivery. Manual transfer with the Whish, OMT, bank and other presets: the diner sends, you confirm, and a manual transfer never marks the order paid on its own. Whish Pay as a live online gateway, in USD and LBP only. Cards through CyberSource, with NetCommerce or any bank, or Areeba’s Mastercard gateway. Online payments are Plus.
- Currency
- USD base with LBP shown to diners, at a rate and a rounding step you set. While that is on, online card payment pauses by design, because the gateway would otherwise be handed an amount you do not settle in. Cash, transfer and WhatsApp orders carry on as normal.
- Languages
- Arabic with full native RTL, English and French. Publishing the menu in Arabic is free; offering diners a language switcher, with AI translation across 21 languages, is Plus.
- Where the menu lives
- ala.menu/yourname on Free and Plus. Your own domain is Pro.
- Price
- Plus $49 a location a month, Pro $99, Free to start; 0% commission on every plan.
Digital menus, answered
How fast can I be live?
Minutes. You send a PDF or a photo of the printed menu, the AI builder reads it and lays out the items, prices and sections, and you fix whatever it got wrong. The menu and its QR are on Free.
Can you build it from my PDF or a photo?
Yes, including multi-column layouts and prices in a separate column. You can send up to five photos of a printed menu instead, or skip both and describe what you serve. Whatever it misreads you fix in the editor in seconds. On Free, with no quota.
Is the Arabic real Arabic, right to left?
Yes, on the free plan: real right-to-left rendering with a loaded Arabic webfont, not a mirrored English layout. What Plus adds is a switcher so a diner can move between languages, with AI translation into 21 of them.
Will my QR break when I change prices?
No. The printed code points at a short address that is allocated once and never reissued, so new prices, new photos or a new name leave it working. The QR is free; your logo and colours on it are Plus.
Can my customers order from my Instagram link?
Yes. Put the menu link in your bio; the diner builds the order on the menu and it arrives in your WhatsApp with the items, sizes and total written out. Free, at 0% commission. Your own website checkout is Plus.
Do my customers need an app?
No. They scan the QR or tap your link and the menu opens in the browser they already have. Nothing to download, no account.
Is the free plan really free?
Yes, and it is a plan rather than a trial: the menu, the design side, a QR, your Page and WhatsApp orders, with no card. Ordering, payments and loyalty are on Plus and Pro, and no plan takes a commission.
Send us the menu you have
A PDF, a photo, or a sentence about what you serve. It comes back as a menu you own, free.
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