Restaurant Menu Maker – Printable Menu Card with Veg / Non-Veg Marks

A free restaurant menu maker with veg and non-veg marks

This restaurant menu maker turns a plain list of dishes into a menu card you can print, save as a PDF or post as an image. Type one dish per line with its price, and optionally a description and a calories or allergen line; start a new section with a line such as “Starters:” or “Mains: Half / Full”. The layout flows into one, two or three columns and onto extra pages by itself, so a café board with ten items and a 60-dish dhaba menu both come out tidy.

Indian menus get the details right: the green vegetarian and brown non-vegetarian marks in front of each dish name, half and full portion prices side by side, ₹ prices with Indian digit grouping, an optional FSSAI licence line and a short note such as “All prices include GST”. Three templates suit a family restaurant, an event caterer or a cloud-kitchen menu screen.

Everything is drawn in your browser and the menu is saved only on this device. Add a QR code that links to your online menu, reviews page or ordering link, and the printed card does double duty.

How to use the Restaurant Menu Maker

1. Type the restaurant name, a line under it and your address, phone or opening hours.
2. Write the menu, one dish per line: Paneer tikka | 260 | v | Cottage cheese, char-grilled | 320 kcal · contains milk. Use v for vegetarian and nv or egg for non-vegetarian.
3. Start each section with a line ending in a colon — “Breads:” — and write half/full prices as 240/380.
4. Pick a template, columns, currency and text size, and add a note, an FSSAI licence number or a QR code link if you want them.
5. Press Print menu, Download PDF or Download PNG; use Copy as text for WhatsApp or a delivery listing.

Restaurant Menu Maker features

The vegetarian and non-vegetarian marks on Indian menus

FSSAI’s guidance note on menu labelling (23 February 2022) describes the two logos for menus: for dishes made from vegetarian sources such as cereals, pulses, vegetables, fruit, milk and milk products, a dark green filled circle inside a square with a green outline; for dishes containing egg, meat, fish or seafood, a brown filled triangle inside a square with a brown outline, placed in front of the dish name. The triangle replaced the older brown circle so that the two marks differ in shape as well as colour. Egg dishes take the brown mark.

Displaying these logos, calories per serving (with the serving size) and allergen information on menu cards and boards is mandatory for food service establishments with a central FSSAI licence or outlets in ten or more locations, under sub-regulation 2.4.6 of the FSS (Packaging and Labelling) First Amendment Regulations, 2020, applied from 1 January 2022. Smaller restaurants are not obliged to, but most Indian diners look for the marks anyway. This tool helps you lay the information out; it does not check your recipes, calorie values or licence category.

What to put on a menu card

• Clear sections in the order people order: starters, mains, breads and rice, desserts, drinks.
• A one-line description for anything a guest might not know — the main ingredients and the cooking style sell better than adjectives.
• Allergens that matter: FSSAI’s list covers gluten cereals, crustaceans, milk, eggs, fish, peanuts and tree nuts, soy and sulphites. A short “contains milk, nuts” line is enough.
• Calories and serving size if you are a chain; the optional reference statement reads “An average active adult requires 2,000 kcal energy per day, however, calorie needs may vary.”
• Tax and service: say whether prices include GST, so the bill holds no surprises.

Menu or price list?

A menu sells dishes; a rate card lists products. For a shop, salon or tiffin service that needs units, GST-inclusive or GST-extra prices and a WhatsApp image, use the price list maker. To set the prices themselves, work out the plate cost with the food cost calculator, and check which FSSAI registration or licence you need with the FSSAI licence fee calculator. For table-top QR stickers that point to a PDF of this menu, make a larger code with the QR code generator.