What's new - Menu Author

2026-10-08

Restaurant websites, built and hosted for you

You can now get a restaurant website built and hosted for you with the new Professional + Website plan
Your menus on the website update automatically every time you publish
Open Website in the sidebar to request yours and track its progress

2026-10-04

Menu generation now accepts older Excel .xls files as well as .xlsx
Each tab in an uploaded spreadsheet becomes its own page, named after the tab
The editor now pauses after 30 minutes without activity, so a teammate isn't locked out for long
A round of polish on duplicated pages, decoration layering and the generation progress screen

2026-10-01

Connect your Google Business Profile so the menu link on Google Search and Maps always points at your published menu
You can also send your sections, dishes, prices and allergens to Google, so they show on your listing
Google is updated automatically every time you publish, unpublish or change a translation, with nothing to copy over by hand
Getting started now has an optional step to connect Google; it's new, so please tell us if your listing looks wrong
Set a menu's language in Menu settings
Letters a font doesn't have, such as Greek or Thai, now show in a matching font in the editor, in print and on the web
If a menu changes somewhere else while you're editing, a banner now asks you to reload
A round of polish so printed and published menus match the editor more closely

2026-09-26

Ten new holiday themes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve
Select multiple mode in the phone editor lets you tap several items and change them together
Settings in the side panel are now grouped so the ones you use most come first
Tapping an item on your phone no longer sometimes deselects it straight away
Background art on nearly matching page sizes is now gently fitted instead of cropped, so more of the border stays visible
Your restaurant's website address now saves correctly even with a stray space, and any problem shows on the field right away

2026-09-25

Menus set in Georgia or Verdana now print in those fonts
PDF downloads and print orders are generated faster
Card backgrounds behind a section now always wrap every item on printed menus
An item with several sizes or a long price now moves its prices to their own line instead of squeezing the item name
Item photos now sit clear of separator lines, and names get a little more room beside regular weight prices
The allergen legend is easier to read on published menus
More breathing room between your menu and the artwork on a couple of themes
Refreshed spicy markers and menu icons, matching across the editor, print, and the web

2026-09-24

Long section titles now wrap onto a second line and keep their ornaments
Fixes for text overlapping in several themes when names, descriptions, or section titles run to two lines
Letters that dip below the line are no longer clipped in descriptions
Printed menus and PDFs now follow the editor more closely, from dietary tags and dotted leaders to add-ons, opening hours, decorations, and shadows
Sold out items are shown struck through everywhere, and price size labels appear exactly as you typed them
QR codes get a small quiet margin so they scan more reliably
Published menus in languages other than English are now labelled correctly for browsers and screen readers
A round of reliability fixes for menus with unusual content

2026-09-22

Fixes for creating a menu from an Excel spreadsheet; a recent update had stopped spreadsheets from being read
A heading merged across several spreadsheet columns is now read once, so your restaurant name or a section title no longer arrives repeated in the generated menu
Fixes for uploading photos straight from an iPhone or iPad; a security setting had started blocking their conversion
Starting a menu generation is more reliable: a brief hiccup on our side is retried instead of showing an error
The sign in, sign up, and invitation pages load faster
A round of polish on the menu wizard's theme step

2026-09-17

Twelve new themes for Argentinian, Brazilian, and Peruvian restaurants take the collection past ninety
They cover steakhouses and grill houses, wine bars, cafes, beach bars, cocktail lounges, and fine dining, with art from saddle leather and grapevine borders to Andean weaving
Argentinian, Brazilian, and Peruvian join the cuisine filters, so these themes are easy to find
Style your QR code in the share dialog: choose square, rounded, or dotted shapes, set the code and background colors, and place your logo in the middle
Add a frame around the code with a call to action such as Scan for menu, in any color
Your QR style is saved with the menu, so a reprint months later gets the same code
The check your email screen now reminds you up front to look in your spam folder
Your dashboard and a menu's version history load faster
A round of polish on the theme collection

2026-09-15

A guest whose browser prefers one of your active languages now lands on that language automatically when they open the base menu link; a flag they pick is remembered on their device, and a link to a specific language always opens that language
Published menus are now checked against WCAG 2.1 AA with an automated accessibility scan on every release, covering translated variants, the dietary filter, and TV display mode
Screen readers now hear the full name behind every dietary and allergen code instead of the abbreviation, and a menu without a visible title still announces the menu name as its heading
The Powered by footer and the TV display mode now keep enough contrast on every background, including menus without a page background on a TV

2026-09-13

Thirty six new themes join the collection, taking it to over eighty, with looks for wine bars, breweries, cafes, bakeries, diners, food trucks, tea rooms, and banquets
Curated background art now comes composed for landscape, square, and tall or wide pages, so the decorated edges are no longer cropped away when a page is not US letter portrait
The right composition is picked per page from its own size, so a menu can mix portrait and landscape pages and each one gets art made for its shape
The background picker shows the thumbnail for your page's shape, so what you pick is what you get
Page margins now clear the background's decorated band on every page size, so text no longer runs into the border on tabloid, A4, A5, or square pages
The margins you set in the overrides panel are a minimum: clearance for the artwork is added on top and cannot be lost by editing
A round of polish on the theme filters and popovers on phones

More to come. We ship continuously and post the highlights here.