Dishes on the menu

A line on a card, and a question for the waiter

"Adana kebab" and a number is a line. It does not say what is in it, how it looks, or whether the pistachio in the sauce matters to the guest at table six. The waiter answers the same three questions all evening.

On paper, adding those answers costs space. On a phone, not adding them costs the sale.

A card for every dish, written once

Each dish carries what a guest asks about: a description, a photograph and the allergens you declare. A dish with something to show gets its own address, so a guest can send it to a friend and the friend lands on that dish.

The dish is written once. List it in two sections and the description and allergens are shared, so a correction is made in one place.

How it works

Add a dish in one step Name, price, currency and declared allergens are written together in one transaction. A half-written dish never exists.
Describe it The description is free text on the dish itself. Edit it by hand, or ask for a first draft and apply it if you like it.
Attach a photo Pick a photo from the media library. The dish is bound to that photo at a specific version, so a later edit of the picture does not change a published menu. Whether the guest sees it depends on your plan.
Declare the allergens Mark the allergens you declare. They are shown to the guest as your declaration, and changing them is recorded with a name and a time.
Hide it, or take it off A seasonal dish is hidden and kept; a wrong one is deleted. A published version is untouched by either until you publish again.
Publish A new dish reaches the guest with the next published version. Only the sold-out mark skips that step.

What a dish can do

Its own page, when it has earned one: A dish with a description, a photo or declared allergens gets a shareable address showing all of them. A dish with only a name and a price does not, so search engines are not fed hundreds of copies of a line.
Visible on the day it is added: A new dish is visible by default. There is no switch to find before the first publish.
Sold out for today, not forever: A dish marked sold out is shown as sold out until the end of the branch's day, then comes back on its own.
A first draft of the description: Ask for a description draft, read it, and apply it or discard it. Nothing is written to the dish without your approval.
The same dish typed twice is found: Zabuno can point out dishes whose names look like duplicates. It points; it does not merge.
Changes are recorded: Adding, renaming, repricing, hiding and deleting a dish, and changing its allergens, go to the audit trail with who and when.
A photo sized for the screen: The guest page asks for the copy that fits the screen, not the original your phone took.
Searchable and filterable by the guest: On the menu page a guest can search dishes by name and narrow the list by declared allergen or price range, when scripts run.
In and out as a spreadsheet: Every dish exports as a row with category, name, price, currency, allergens, description and visibility, and imports the same way.

What you need

A name and a price	A visible dish needs a non-empty name and a price above zero before the menu can be published.
A price in the brand's currency	The price is typed as a decimal in the currency of your business, and the decimals must match that currency.
Permission to manage the menu	Owners, managers and editors add and edit dishes. The kitchen role only marks allergens and sold-out state.
No plan	Everything on this page is on the free plan.

What a dish cannot carry

One price, no sizes or portions Small and large are two dishes today, not one dish with two prices.
No extras or choices Extra cheese, a sauce choice and a cooking preference are not part of a dish.
No calories, no nutrition, no diet labels Only the allergens you declare are stored. There is no vegan, vegetarian or gluten-free tag and no energy figure.
One photo A dish carries one photo, not a gallery.
Names and descriptions are not translated A dish is written in one language. Switching the guest interface language does not translate it.
A declaration, not a guarantee The page states which allergens you declared. It never claims a dish is free of anything.
No per-dish code A dish has a web address, but not its own printable QR code.

Questions owners ask

Can I write a description and add a photo to a dish?

Yes. Both live on the dish and appear on the menu and on the dish's own page.

Why does one dish have its own page and another not?

A page is made only for a dish with a description, a photo or declared allergens. A name and a price alone would be a copy of the menu line.

Can I offer a small and a large size?

Not on one dish. Add two dishes today.

Does Zabuno write my descriptions?

It can offer a first draft. You read it and apply it, or not; nothing is written without you.

Can I mark a dish vegan or gluten-free?

No. Only declared allergens are stored today. You can say it in the description.

I hid a dish. Is it gone from the menu on the tables?

Not until you publish. The published version stays as it was.

Dishes cost nothing to add

Adding, describing and photographing a dish are on the free plan. Showing that photograph to the guest on the menu is what a paid plan opens.

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