What a QR menu costs in Lebanon in 2026

The four ways restaurants in Lebanon do a "digital menu"

1. A PDF or image on Instagram and WhatsApp. Cost: $0. This is what most places start with. The hidden cost is that every price change means a new file, every order is typed by hand into WhatsApp, and nothing is searchable. It works until you pass about 20–30 orders a day.

2. A free QR menu generator. Cost: $0–$15/month. Global tools offer a free tier with their branding, a template, and usually English only. Arabic right-to-left layout is poor or absent, there is no ordering, and support is a help centre in another time zone. Fine for a café that only needs to show a menu.

3. A QR menu with WhatsApp ordering. Cost: roughly $20–$150/month in Lebanon depending on who you ask. This is the step that changes the business: the customer builds the order on the menu and it arrives on your WhatsApp with the address, instead of being dictated over the phone. Some providers charge a setup fee of $50–$200 on top; some bill per branch; some charge a percentage of orders. Read the per-order line carefully.

4. Your own branded ordering app. Cost: a one-time project, typically a few thousand dollars, plus hosting. For a single restaurant it rarely pays; for a chain with loyalty, several branches and in-house delivery it does. See the Roadside and Qasr el Haliweyat apps for what that looks like.

The number everyone forgets: delivery-app commission

Delivery apps in Lebanon take 20–35% of each order depending on the plan, before card fees and promoted-listing charges. A restaurant doing 15 app orders a day at an average of $12 hands over roughly $1,100–$1,900 a month. That is the real benchmark for any QR menu price. A $20/month menu that moves even a fifth of those orders to direct WhatsApp pays for itself in the first two days of the month.

This is not an argument for leaving the apps. They bring new customers. It is an argument for owning the channel for the customers you already have: the ones who follow you on Instagram, who sit at your tables, who get your delivery bag. Those should order from your menu, not from an app that charges you for them.

What I charge, and why it's published

My QR menu with WhatsApp ordering is $20/month per location, or $200/year, with the first 30 days free and no card. No commission, no setup fee, no per-order charge. The price is on the site because hiding it wastes everyone's time: owners want to know the number before they message, and I want to talk to owners who already know it fits.

For that price the menu is in Arabic and English, I type it in from your photos or PDF, you edit prices from your phone, orders arrive on your WhatsApp with the delivery area detected, and the person who built the system answers your messages. The whole thing is live within 48 hours of you sending the menu. Full details on the QR menu page.

Questions to ask any provider before you pay

• Is Arabic a real right-to-left layout, or English with Arabic text pasted in?
• Do orders come to my WhatsApp, or to a dashboard my staff must watch?
• Is there any percentage on orders, now or after a trial?
• Who answers when the menu is down on a Saturday night, and where are they?
• Can I take my menu data with me if I leave?
• Does it load on weak mobile data, without an app to install?

What it did for one Beirut restaurant

La Tavola in Beirut moved its menu, ordering and reservations to this system together with a new website. The owner reports 24% higher sales since going digital and about 35 minutes a day less spent taking and retyping orders. You can try the live menu at sebahi.services/qrmenu/latavola.

The short answer

Free if you only need to show a menu and don't mind the branding and the English-only layout. About $20 a month for a proper bilingual menu that takes orders on WhatsApp with no commission. A few thousand, once, if you want your own app. And whatever you choose, compare it to what the delivery apps are taking from you this month, not to the price of printing menus.