Done-for-you video menus · New Providence, NJ
Your menu becomes
your best server.
We build your restaurant a video menu from beginning to end. Every dish shot, written, and ready to sell. Guests scan, watch the food, and order with real appetite. You don't lift a finger.
We build a sample of your menu first. You only subscribe if you love it.
Hover a dish to play its trailer. Every dish has a trailer.
A list of names never made anyone hungry.
Your menu is the most important sales tool in the restaurant, and the most ignored. Guests can't picture the food, so they order the same three things. You never learn what works. And building something better means a designer, a photographer, and time you don't have.
Smart Menu fixes all three, and does the work for you.
Show it. Help them choose. Learn what sells.
Three things a printed menu can never do, working for you at every table.
Guests see the food, not a list of names
Every dish plays as a short video: the sear, the pour, the pull. The safe choice loses its grip and the plate you want to sell is the one they can finally see.
The menu recommends, so nobody defaults to “the usual”
Help Me Choose asks a couple of quick questions and points each guest to the right dish. Pairings suggest what goes well together, so the table orders more without a word from your staff.
You finally see what your guests want
Real analytics: most-watched dishes, the ones being skipped, busy hours, video completion, QR scans. Stop guessing, and price and promote from what actually happens.
Digital and print
One menu for mobile and print.
Some guests scan. Some like paper in hand. You should not have to choose. The same dishes, prices, and labels become a clean, print-ready PDF in one click. Change a price, generate a fresh one: no designer, no duplicate menu to keep in sync.
Apple Outlaw
Mains
Crispy thigh, hot honey, pickles on a soft roll.
Private guest feedback
Hear from guests before they walk out.
Most unhappy guests never ask for a manager. They just do not come back. Smart Menu gives every guest a private line to you, right from the menu: a rating, a comment, and the choice to stay anonymous or ask for a reply.
Built to help you recover guests, not to hide honest public reviews.
“Loved the Help Me Choose. Picked the fried chicken and it was perfect. Service was a little slow though.”
We don't sell software. We sell your time back.
Send us your current menu, a PDF or even a photo, and our team builds the whole thing: your profile, categories, dishes, prices, dietary and allergen labels, your branding, and your QR code. Need photos and videos? Our local creators shoot them for you.
What you would normally have to do
- Hire a menu designer
- Book a food photographer
- Hire a videographer
- Upload and organize every dish
- Set up the QR code
- Figure out any software
All of it, done for you.
Why restaurants choose Smart Menu over a basic QR menu.
“I already have a QR menu.”
A basic QR menu is just a list on a screen. Smart Menu shows the food in video, helps the guest choose, and tells you what sells.
“My servers already explain the dishes.”
Your server can’t be at every table at once, and never leaves you any data. The menu explains every dish, to everyone, and records what draws attention.
“I don’t have time to set all this up.”
You don’t set anything up. Send us your current menu and we build the whole thing for you.
“I don’t want to hire a photographer.”
You don’t have to. Our trained local creators shoot your photos and videos for you, starting at $10 per item.
Founding Restaurant Program
We're picking our first New Jersey restaurants.
Being local means we help in person: onboarding, menu setup, and on-site content. Founding restaurants get the full build, priority support, and founding pricing locked in.
Book a free menu review
Send us your current menu. We'll build a sample and show you how Smart Menu could improve it. No obligation, no technical prep.
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One plan. Everything included.
No tiers to decode. Founding restaurants lock in founding pricing. Start with a 14-day free trial, no card required.
- Full menu built for you
- Dish videos and photos
- Help Me Choose and pairings
- Your branding and QR code
- Menu analytics
- Printable menu (PDF)
- Private guest feedback
- Priority local support
Questions, answered.
- Do I have to build the menu myself?
- No. This is done for you. Send us your current menu and our team creates the whole thing: categories, dishes, descriptions, prices, dietary and allergen labels, your logo and colors, the photos and videos, and your QR code. You review it before it goes live.
- What is a video menu?
- A video menu replaces the usual list of dish names with a short video of each dish. Guests scan a QR code at the table, watch the food on their phone, and order. No app to install.
- Do my guests need to download an app?
- No. The menu opens in the phone browser straight from the QR code. Guests just scan and watch.
- What if a guest cannot decide what to order?
- Smart Menu has a built-in guide called Help Me Choose. The guest answers a couple of quick prompts about what they feel like eating and the menu recommends the dish that fits. It can even surprise them.
- I do not have photos or videos of my food. Now what?
- We handle it. Book an affordable on-site session and our trained local creators come to your restaurant to shoot photos and short videos made for your menu, starting at $10 per item. You can also use your own content.
- Can I still offer a printed menu?
- Yes. Smart Menu generates a clean, print-ready PDF from the same dishes, prices, and labels in your digital menu. Change a price and generate a fresh one, without a designer.
- Can guests leave feedback anonymously?
- Yes. Guests can send private feedback right from the menu, choose to leave their name or stay anonymous, and ask the restaurant to follow up. It is a private channel, and it does not restrict honest public reviews.
- What kind of restaurant is Smart Menu for?
- Independent restaurants, cafes, pizzerias, and bars, especially ones whose food is visual or unfamiliar. It works for a single location or a few.
- Which areas do you serve?
- Our hands-on setup and on-site content service covers New Providence and surrounding New Jersey communities. Remote menu setup may be available outside the local area.