Restaurant menu translation: Arabic, English and 21 languages on one link
ala.menu translates your restaurant’s menu, the one that takes orders, into the diner’s language in one tap, and the cart, delivery by area and payment by card, Whish or cash follow in that language, at 0% commission. Tourists and Gulf visitors read it and ask the AI waiter in their own language, carry your loyalty card in their wallet and stay your customers, as Yoki Sushi’s Arabic menu reads in English in Baghdad.
Yoki Sushi in Baghdad runs its menu Arabic first, with English beside it.
0% commission on every plan.
What "translated" has to mean for a menu
One tap, the whole menu
Item names, descriptions, section headings and modifier groups together. Not a per-item chore and not a second menu to keep in sync.
Arabic that reads right
Full native right-to-left rendering with a loaded Arabic webfont. Persian too. This is layout direction, not a CSS flip of an English page.
21 languages on the roster
Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese in both scripts, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Thai, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian, Persian and Malay.
It keeps up with your edits
AI translation updates itself: edit one dish and that dish alone is translated again, and sizes, add-ons, banners and offer labels are included. On Plus.
The diner picks
A switcher on your menu, so one link and one QR code serve every language. No second menu, no second URL.
Your base language is free
Publish the whole menu in Arabic, French or any of the 21 on the free plan. What Plus adds is offering more than one at a time.
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Live in three steps
1. Build the menu once
In whichever language you actually write in. Send a PDF or a photo and the AI builder types it up.
2. Pick the languages
Choose which ones diners should be offered. The translation runs across the menu.
3. Keep editing in your language
Change a dish and that dish alone is translated again; every other dish keeps its translation.
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 languages including yoursPlus
- 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
What it costs
- Price
- Plus $49 a location a month, Pro $99, Free to start; 0% commission on every plan.
A second PDF, and a translated menu
| A second PDF | ala.menu | |
|---|---|---|
| Keeping prices in sync | Two files, by hand, forever | One menu, one price |
| Arabic layout | Whatever the designer managed | Native right-to-left rendering |
| How a diner switches | A second QR code, or asking | A switcher on the same page |
| Adding a third language | A third file | A checkbox |
| Changing a dish | Edit it in every file | Edit it once; that dish is translated again |
Menu translation, answered
Which languages are supported?
Twenty-one: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Thai, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian, Persian and Malay.
Is the Arabic real right-to-left, or a flipped layout?
Real. The menu renders right to left as its own direction, with a loaded Arabic webfont so the text is a real typeface on every device rather than whatever the phone falls back to. Persian is handled the same way. Those two are the right-to-left languages on the list.
What happens to the translations when I change a dish?
That dish alone is translated again, the next time a diner picks the language; every dish you did not touch keeps its translation. Sizes, add-ons, banners and offer labels are translated as well. On Plus.
Does the menu open in the diner’s language?
Yes. The menu opens in the diner’s browser language and remembers the language they picked across the menu and the Page. On Plus.
Does a second language mean a second QR code?
No. One menu, one link, one printed code. The diner picks the language on the page.
Is the dashboard in Arabic?
Yes. The owner dashboard runs in Arabic as well as English, French and Spanish, on every plan. Free.
What does it cost?
Offering diners more than one language, with AI translation, is Plus, along with your own checkout, delivery by area and payments; Pro adds the loyalty card in the diner’s wallet and your own domain. Plus is $49 a location a month and Pro $99. Publishing your menu in any one of the 21 as its base language is on Free. 0% commission on every plan.
One menu, every language your street speaks
Build it in your own language, and switch the rest on when you need them.
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