Restaurants
From neighbourhood bistro to tasting-menu fine dining. Seasonal rewrites in minutes, specials that publish themselves, print menus that keep up with the kitchen.
The full menu of features
Built for the way
kitchens actually work.
Every feature in Carte exists because a chef, a sommelier or a manager asked for it between services. Nothing you don't need, everything you do.
01 — Menu Editor
An editor that reads like a menu, not a database.
Courses, sections, dishes and descriptions laid out the way they'll be served. Drag a course up the running order, mark a special, 86 a dish from your phone in the walk-in. If you can use a menu, you can use Carte.
- Drag-and-drop ordering for courses, sections and dishes
- One-tap 86 — sold-out dishes vanish from web and QR instantly
- Specials with start and end times that publish themselves
- Duplicate a whole menu for seasonal changes in one click
- Full change history — see who edited what, and roll back
Dinner — Spring● Live everywhere
Mains — drag to reorder
Rump of Rutland lambwild garlic, jersey royals, lamb jusGF£26.00
Pan-roasted halibutbrown shrimp, sea vegetables, beurre blanc£28.50
Dry-aged ribeye 86'd — 7:42pmbone marrow butter, triple-cooked chips£34.00
Celeriac, barley & cep ragoutpickled mushrooms, parsley crumbVE£19.00
Tonight's special auto-publishes 5pm – 10pm
Whole grilled plaice for twocaper brown butter, monk's beard£52.00
02 — Wine Cellar
Your cellar book, finally off the spreadsheet.
Bins, vintages, producers, regions, grapes and tasting notes are first-class fields — not columns you squeeze meaning into. Group your list by region or by style, and let Carte handle glass, carafe and bottle pricing natively.
- Every pricing format from 125ml to magnum on a single bin
- Out-of-stock bins hide themselves everywhere the moment you mark them
- Pairing notes that can link directly to dishes on your menus
- Print a typeset cellar book PDF whenever the list changes
Bin 34 — MeursaultBurgundy · France
ProducerDomaine Roulot
Vintage2021
GrapeChardonnay
StyleWhite — taut, mineral
Pairs withhalibut · velouté
Pricing
125ml glass£18.00
500ml carafe£58.00
Bottle£86.00
Stock
11 bottles in cellarauto-hide when stock hits 0 — currently visible on 3 listsvisible
03 — PDF Print Studio
From screen to print pass
in one click.
The Print Studio typesets your menu automatically: your fonts, your spacing, dotted leaders, proper pagination and widow control. New menu on the website at 4pm, fresh print run on the tables by 5. No designer, no waiting, no typos introduced in transit.
- House styles — set your typography once, reuse it forever
- Automatic pagination with no orphaned dishes or broken sections
- A4, A5, DL and tasting-card formats out of the box
- Allergen matrix appendix generated automatically
- Crop marks and bleed for professional print runs
04 — Allergen Matrix
Compliance that takes minutes, not evenings.
Tag the 14 major allergens and any dietary preference once per dish. Carte keeps your printed matrix, website filters and QR menus in perfect agreement — so the answer to “can I see your allergen information?” is always “of course”, never “give us a minute”.
- All 14 UK/EU major allergens tracked per dish
- Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and custom dietary tags
- Guests filter the QR menu by their own requirements
- One-click printable matrix for EHO visits and staff briefings
- “May contain” and kitchen-notes fields for front-of-house
Allergen Matrix — Dinnerprint-ready
| Dish | Glu | Cru | Egg | Fish | Milk | Nut | Soy | Sul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chalk-stream trout | ● | ● | ● | |||||
| Burrata & blood orange | ● | ● | ● | |||||
| Artichoke velouté | ● | ● | ||||||
| Rump of Rutland lamb | ● | ● | ||||||
| Pan-roasted halibut | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
| Celeriac & cep ragout | ● | ● | ● |
Generated from dish tags — always in agreement with web, print and QR.
05 — Website Embeds & QR
Live on your website. Beautiful on their phones.
One snippet of code puts a live, fast, beautiful menu on any website — WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow or fully custom. QR menus come free with every plan and feel designed, not scanned: your typography, your colours, no app, no PDF pinch-zooming.
- Works with any website platform — one copy-paste snippet
- Menus inherit your site's fonts and colours automatically
- QR codes per menu, per table section, or per venue
- Loads in under half a second, even on slow mobile data
- SEO-friendly: dishes are real text search engines can read
VE ✓GF ✓all allergens
Filtered: vegetarian · your view only
06 — Multi-venue & Teams
One account. Every venue, every menu, every role.
Run breakfast, bar, à la carte and room service across every site from a single dashboard. Share a dish library across the group, keep prices local, and let roles and approvals decide who can propose, who can approve, and who can publish.
- Unlimited menus per venue, unlimited venues on Estate
- Shared dish library with per-venue pricing overrides
- Chef proposes → manager approves → Carte publishes
- Per-venue branding for embeds, PDFs and QR menus
- Full audit log across the whole group
Approvals — Holt Hotels4 venues
Waiting for approval
Lunch price update — The Mill Houseproposed by D. Okafor (Head Chef) · 12 changesreview
New tasting menu — Harbour Viewproposed by L. Fontaine (Chef Patron) · 9 dishesreview
Recently published
Sunday menu — The Mill Houseapproved by E. Marchetti · published to web, PDF & QRlive
Bar snacks — all venuesapproved by E. Marchetti · shared library updatelive
Audit log
14:32 — halibut priceD. Okafor
14:10 — 86 ribeyeM. Whitfield
11:48 — bin 60 out of stockT. Aldana
Bookings
Rooms, tables and venues — booked from your website.
One script tag adds a booking button to any website. Guests get a popup calendar that only shows honest, live availability — rooms and apartments by the night, venue hire by the day, tables by the sitting. Table bookings can pre-order dishes and wine from your live Carte menu, so the kitchen knows before the night does.
- Popup or inline widget — one line of code, works on any site
- Availability is transactional: the last room can never sell twice
- Menu & wine pre-ordering on table bookings
- Instant confirmation or request-to-confirm — your choice
- Email notifications to guests and to the venue
Bookings — today● Widget live
Arrivals
Garden Room — E. Whitfield2 nights · 2 guests · confirmed by the widget at 09:14confirmed£290
The Coach House — Harrison family4 nights · sleeps 4 · booked from your websiteconfirmed£960
Tonight's tables 32 covers
19:30 — Petrova, party of 4window table requestedconfirmed
20:00 — Sharma, party of 2pre-ordered: 2 × lamb · 1 × Gevrey-Chambertinpre-order
12:30 — Hartley, party of 6awaiting your confirmationpending
Appearance
Your menu, your look.
Five ready-made looks or full control — colours, typeface pairings, corner radius, spacing. Change it once in the appearance editor and every QR menu, website embed and booking page restyles instantly. No re-embedding, no designer round-trips.
- Live preview while you edit — publish when it looks right
- Presets: Classic, Noir, Brasserie, Coastal, Minimal
- Curated typeface pairings, or system fonts for speed
- Applies to menus, wine lists and the booking flow together
VE ✓GF ✓all allergens
Filtered: vegetarian · your view only
Who Carte is for
At home in every kind of house.
Hotels & Inns
Breakfast, lounge, restaurant, room service and events — every outlet from one dashboard, each with its own look, prices and publishing schedule.
Pubs & Bars
Rotating taps, guest ales and a kitchen that changes with the seasons. Update the board, the website and the bar cards in one move.
Groups & Operators
A shared library, local control and a full audit trail. Head office sets the structure; every kitchen owns its menu. Version-control chaos, ended.