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title: "Restaurant Menu QR Code You Can Update Without Reprinting"
description: "Put one QR code on your menus, table tents and window, then change what it opens when the menu changes. No reprint, no reordering."
canonical: https://reroutehq.com/resources/restaurant-menu-qr-code
---

# How to put a QR code on a menu you can update without reprinting

**Who this is for:** Restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels

A printed menu goes out of date the moment a price moves. Most venues solve that by reprinting, which costs money and takes days, or by taping a correction over the old one.

A dynamic QR code moves the problem somewhere you can actually reach it. The square on the table never changes. What it opens is a setting you can edit from your phone between services.

## Steps

### 1. Host the menu somewhere you control

A PDF on your own site, Google Drive or Dropbox all work. reRoute does not host files — you keep the menu where it already lives, which also means you can update the file itself without touching anything here.

### 2. Create a dynamic link pointing at it

Give it a back-half you will recognise later, like rrte.link/oak-menu. This is the address that gets printed, so it is the one thing that has to stay fixed.

### 3. Generate the code and print it

Download at 1024px PNG or SVG. If you need one code per table, the print kit lays out twelve to an A4 sheet with a label and the short URL under each, so they can be cut and slotted straight into table tents.

### 4. Change the destination when the menu changes

Point the same link at the new PDF. Every code already printed — on tables, in the window, on the takeaway flyer — starts opening the new menu on the next scan. There is no limit on how often you do this.

### 5. Watch what people actually scan

Each scan records country, city, device, operating system, browser, referrer and time. Useful for the mundane question of whether the window code earns its space, or whether anybody scans the one by the till.

## What this will not do

- We do not host your menu file. If the link to your PDF breaks, the code opens a broken page — keep the file somewhere stable.
- The free plan includes three dynamic links, which is enough for a menu, a WiFi code and a reviews code. Beyond that needs a paid plan.
- Static QR codes are unlimited and free, but they cannot be changed after printing. For a menu, you want a dynamic one.

## Frequently asked questions

### Do I need a different code for lunch and dinner?

No, and that is the point. One code, repointed on a schedule you control, or routed automatically by time of day if you would rather not think about it.

### What happens if I stop paying?

The printed codes keep resolving to wherever you last pointed them. You lose the ability to change them and to see new scan data. We will not switch off a code that is already on every table in the room.

### Can guests connect to WiFi from the same table tent?

Use a separate WiFi code beside it. A WiFi QR code encodes the network name and password directly, so it needs no internet connection to work and never expires.

### Is a QR code menu worth it if we still print menus?

Most venues run both. The printed menu handles the table, the code handles the things that change most often — specials, allergens, the wine list, the takeaway page.

## Related

- [/tools/pdf-qr-code](/tools/pdf-qr-code)
- [/tools/wifi-qr-code](/tools/wifi-qr-code)
- [/tools/google-review-qr-code](/tools/google-review-qr-code)
- [/tools/whatsapp-qr-code](/tools/whatsapp-qr-code)
- [Free QR code generator](/generate)
- [Pricing](/pricing)