Menus (Food)

If you do not see this in your menu, your website does not use it.

Menus (Food) comes with our higher plans. Contact us to upgrade, or visit your customer portal for a self-service upgrade to a supported plan.

A menu here is one whole food menu: Lunch, Dinner, or Catering. One entry is one menu.

A menu holds a name and a line or two of intro. It does not hold your food. Your dishes live in Menu Sections (Food). A section is one part of the menu, such as Tacos, Burritos, or Drinks.

Go to Content, then Menus (Food).

Important

There is a second screen named Menus, under Manage. That one is the row of links at the top of your website. It has nothing to do with food.

The list of your menus

Most food trucks need one menu. Some have two or three.

1. Add New. Starts a new menu.

2. The title. Click it to open the menu and edit it.

3. The view icon. Opens your menu page on your live website.

How a menu and its sections fit together

A menu is the cover. The sections are the pages inside it.

One menu, its sections, and the dishes inside them.

1. The intro. Typed on the menu.

2. A heading. One Menu Section entry.

3. A dish. One row in that section’s list of items.

4. Download PDF. Covered further down this page.

So which section belongs to which menu?

• If you have one menu, every section belongs to it. Leave the Menu box on each section empty.
• If you have two or more, each section names its menu in that box.
• A section with an empty Menu box joins the first menu on the list.

Menu Sections (Food) walks through that box.

Making a menu

1. Click Add New.
2. Type a Menu title, such as “Lunch Menu”.
3. Write an Intro if you want one.
4. Click Save.
5. Click Publish.

A menu has four boxes. None of them is for food.

1. Menu title. What you call this menu. On a site with one menu, it is never shown to the public. It is a name for you.

2. Intro. A line or two under the heading, such as your serving hours. Leave it empty and nothing shows there.

3. Live View. Opens your menu page in a new tab. A menu has no page of its own, so this always opens the one menu page.

Two more boxes sit further down the form.

Printable PDF is for a menu file you already have. It is covered below. Leave it empty and your website makes one for you.

Sort order sets which menu comes first, and only matters if you have two or more. The lowest number goes first, and an empty box counts as zero. Two menus with the same number fall back to A to Z by title.

Important

A new menu shows nothing on your website on its own. It needs a published section with at least one dish in it. Until then, visitors do not see the menu at all. Menu Sections (Food) shows you how to add one.

Warning

The Slug is part of a web address, and it is used to tie a section to this menu. Set it once, while the menu is new, then leave it alone. Saving and publishing has the full warning.

Where your menu shows up

Your website has one menu page, at yoursite.com/menu. Every menu you publish is on it, one under the other.

With one menu, that page is headed Menu and your menu title is not shown. Your sections start right away.

With two or more, each menu gets its own heading. A row of buttons at the top of the page jumps to each one.

To add a link to this page in the bar at the top of your website, go to Manage, then Menus.

The Download PDF button

Every menu on the page has one. It hands a visitor a printable copy: your business name, the headings, the dishes and the prices. No photos, no colors.

You do not have to make that file. Your website builds it from what you have typed.

If you already have a menu file of your own, open the menu and upload it in the Printable PDF box. The button then hands out your file instead. Only a PDF file can go here.

Tip

Small picture symbols do not print. A dish name with a chilli symbol in it shows fine on the web page, but the printable copy prints a question mark in its place. Keep them out of dish names.

Putting your menu on another page

A Menu block puts a short version of your menu on any page. It lists dish names and prices, then a button through to the full menu page. The home page is the usual spot for it.

Pages shows how a block is added and changed.

The block has its own form. All four boxes can be left empty.

1. Headline. The heading above the list, such as “What is on the truck today”. Leave it empty and no heading shows.

2. Menu slug. Which menu to use. Leave it empty and your first menu is used, which is what most sites want. A menu’s slug is in the panel on the right when you have that menu open.

3. Maximum items to show. A number, such as 4. Leave it empty and six dishes show.

4. Button label. The words on the button under the list. Leave it empty and it reads See the full menu.

The block takes dishes from the top of the menu down, section by section. It shows no headings and no photos. For all of that, a visitor clicks through.

Changing a price

Prices sit on the dish, not on the menu. Open the section that holds the dish, change its Price, and publish. Menu Sections (Food) covers it.

Taking a menu off your website

Warning

Both of the buttons below take the menu off your website the moment you click. Its sections and dishes go with it.

If this is your only menu, your menu page then has no food on it at all. Visitors see a short setup message where your dishes used to be. Check that another published menu is in place first.

Unpublish Menu hides it and keeps it. Use it for a menu you are resting, such as a summer one in winter. The entry waits exactly as you left it, and publishing brings it back.

Move to Trash is for a menu you are done with. It goes to the Trash tab, so you can still get it back.

Saving and publishing covers both buttons and how to undo them.