Apaxon Menu
Available nowFreeA menu Google can read, not a PDF nobody can.
Dishes, prices and dietary information stored as real data — so they render fast on a phone, update in one place, and appear in search results as a menu rather than as a link to a file that opens badly.
- Free forever
- Schema.org markup built in
- No PDF required
What it does.
Dishes as records
A price change is one edit, not a new PDF exported from a design file somebody left the company with.
Structured data that search engines use
Menu, MenuSection and MenuItem markup is emitted automatically, so a search result can show the dishes rather than a filename.
Dietary tags people can filter
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and allergen information attached to the dish, so a guest can answer their own question before they call.
Sections and service times
Lunch, dinner and Sunday menus that know when they apply, instead of one long page with headings.
The problem
A PDF menu costs more than it looks.
It is invisible to search, unreadable on a phone, and impossible to change without the original file. Every restaurant with a PDF menu is losing bookings to one whose dishes appear in the search result — and paying a designer for a price change.
- Loads in a fraction of the weight of a PDF on mobile data
- Readable by screen readers, which a scanned menu never is
- One price change, one edit, no design software
Requirements
- Requires
- Apaxon Core, WordPress 6.5+, PHP 8.1+
- Markup
- Schema.org Menu, MenuSection, MenuItem
- Licence
- GPLv2 or later
- Menus
- Unlimited
Questions
Can I still offer a PDF?
Yes — the plugin can render a print-ready version from the same data, so the PDF is generated rather than maintained separately and cannot drift out of date.
Does it work with my theme?
It renders through a block and a shortcode, both of which inherit your theme’s typography. Nothing is loaded in an iframe.
Will it connect to bookings?
Apaxon Bookings and Apaxon Menu both run on Core, so a booking page can show the menu that applies to the sitting being booked.
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