Create a QR code for the home page
The home page code is the most durable code a restaurant can print. Its address rarely changes, and it works no matter how the menus are restructured behind it.
When to use it
- One code for the whole restaurant — the table tent, the entrance, the window, the business card.
- Several menus — guests land on the home page and choose.
- Anything printed to last — posters, coasters, laminated cards, printed material with a long life.
If the restaurant has one menu and nothing else, a menu code is more direct. Everything else points at home.
Generate it
- Open QR generator.
- Confirm Home Page is ticked — it is by default.
- Untick anything you do not need in this batch.
- Select Generate Codes.
- Download the SVG for print and the PNG for screens.
Where the code points
To the site's front page. On a multilingual site, one code is produced per language, each pointing at the home page in that language.
If the front page is not where guests should land, change the front page rather than the code — the address is what makes this code durable.
Make the landing page do its job
A guest who scans at a table has one question: where is the menu? The home page has about three seconds to answer it.
The setup assistant offers two home templates, and they behave differently here:
- Home: simple design (only links to the menus) — a compact page whose only job is to send guests to the right menu. This is the right choice when the code is on the table.
- Home: local SEO optimized design — a fuller landing page with concept, gallery, location and contact sections. Better for guests arriving from search, heavier for a guest at a table.
Whichever is in use, check that the menu links are visible without scrolling on a phone.
Before printing
- [ ] The home page is edited — no placeholder copy, sample gallery or sample address left from the template.
- [ ] The menus are linked from it, and every link works.
- [ ] It loads quickly on mobile data.
- [ ] It reads correctly in every published language.
- [ ] The restaurant name and logo are correct.
A home page code amplifies whatever the home page is. It is worth finishing the page before printing a hundred of them.
The contact dock still matters
Once a guest is inside a menu, they move between menus using the contact dock, not by going back to the home page. Configure the dock for each archive so that a guest who lands on the à la carte menu can reach the wine list without returning to the front page.
See Contact dock.
Why this code survives
- Renaming a category does not affect it.
- Adding or retiring a menu type does not affect it.
- Restructuring the menus does not affect it.
The only change that breaks it is moving the site to another domain. That makes it the code to choose for anything expensive to reprint.