Key Features of MenuPro

Easier than Word-processing with powerful features unavailable anywhere else

Quick and easy 'Drag and Drop' interface

Create menus by dragging and dropping from the food and drink list. There's no need to retype, no need to cut and paste. To reorder your items, simply drag them to a new location on the menu.
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Automate your Daily Specials

Maintain a complete database of all the menu items you serve with MenuPro's food list. You can literally store thousands of foods and beverages and have them all at your fingertips. Keep specials and seasonal items on file and ready to go. Make price changes instantly. Print specials, daily menus, or menu flyers every day with just a few clicks from the list.

Choose from 150+ ready-made Menu Styles

Faster, easier, and more flexible than word-processing templates, Menu Styles work with any menu size or layout, and are all interchangeable. Change and compare designs using your actual menu items with a single click - a powerful option that's unavailable with any other software.

Menu-smart text alignment and layout

No matter what Menu Style you choose, or how many items are on your menu, MenuPro automatically lines everything up - including prices - without requiring you to learn complicated word-processing formatting commands.

Add your own logo, graphics, or food photos

MenuPro lets you easily add as many images as you want to your menus - there are no restrictions on the number of logos or images that you can use. You can use your own images or choose from hundreds of menu and food clipart images, watermark backgrounds, menu borders, and food symbols that come with MenuPro.
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Any style, layout, number of menu items, or number of pages

Unlike templates, MenuPro Menu Styles are not 'set designs' etched in stone. Their flexible, meaning you change any and every element of the design to suit your needs. Mix and match fonts, artwork, borders, background, and layout types between all of the styles. Add as many or as few menu items as you want to any design, and then automatically Fit them to one or multiple pages.

Post your menus online

Keep your website menus fresh and up-to-date with MenuPro's built-in PDF Creator and Web Uploader. Instantly upload PDF or HTML menus to your website, or simply e-mail menus to your customers or clients. Introduce new entrées, streamline to-go orders, and promote house specials with a daily online menu.
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Culinary spell-checker

Spell check your menus with a 100,000+ word English dictionary plus any of 10 foreign language dictionaries including French, Italian, British English, Canadian English, Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, and even a special Culinary Dictionary.

1500+ restaurant graphics

Included with MenuPro are clipart images, digital food photos, watermark backgrounds, decorative borders, starburst graphics like "new", "spicy", "heart-healthy" and "vegan" and hundreds of menu design illustrations. All created exclusively for SoftCafe by top illustrators and design professionals.
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Organize your foods with categories

MenuPro lets you store your foods and drinks in categories that are separate from your menus, letting you keep better track of seasonal items, specials, and large food lists. Some of our customers have over a thousand possible dishes, and MenuPro lets them keep track of them.

140+ Monotype and ITC fonts

Widely regarded as the highest quality fonts available, Monotype and ITC fonts are used by design professionals throughout the world. The fonts that come with MenuPro are the original source fonts (not knock-offs or clones). And unlike embedded Word template fonts, you get the actual and complete font to use with MenuPro or any other software you own.
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Automatic price options

Unavailable in any other software, MenuPro's one-of-a-kind Price Options command lets you perfectly add or remove leader dots or dollar signs, and can even shift all prices, with one click while maintaining correct price alignment. You can use it with any menu design to improve your menu's style, legibility, or as a subtle menu engineering trick to improve your profits.*
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Highlight high-profit menu items

Highlight the foods you prefer to sell with boxes, custom hospitality symbols, icons, starbursts, or graphics. Unlike word-processing software, adding a symbol requires no special formatting or hanging indents. Without this feature, you're missing one of the best ways to draw attention to and sell high-profit menu items.

Easily create 'large-type' menus

Instantly turn your dining room menu into a 'large-type' menu for those with special needs, without having to retype or incur extra design costs from a graphic designer or print shop.

Create catering proposals

With its master food item database MenuPro is perfect for caterers who create frequent menu proposals from a large list of foods and beverages.

Promote to-go orders and Daily Specials with mobile menus

Convert any MenuPro menu into a fast and lightweight HTML menu to post on your web site for customers who use mobile browsing. Mobile users want quick, clean information, so while PDF menus allow you to showcase your brand and design, HTML menus are lightweight and load faster allowing your customers to quickly check your menus and daily specials from the office, home, or on the road.

Keep your data private, secure, and accessible at all times

MenuPro does not require an internet connection for general use. Nor does it store any of your menus or private data on the internet - all data is stored locally on your PC. So you can quickly and safely create and update your menus - at any time - on your laptop or back-office PC, without having to worry about slow internet speeds, browser compatibilities, or downed websites. And you'll get peace of mind knowing your data won't be stolen, comprised, or lost by website outages or internet hackers. Plus, you can utilize built-in multi-level password protection which lets your staff create menus without allowing them to edit or modify your food item list or menu designs. Up to 10 separate design and editing features can be password protected.

Change the colors, fonts, borders, and background of any menu design

No matter what Menu Style you choose, you can change the fonts or colors to match your restaurant's theme, logo, or decor with just a few clicks. You can also mix and match borders, watermarks, or menu backgrounds with any menu design or use your own custom images. This gives you the flexibility to pick the menu formatting you want with the artwork you want.

Menu cover preview

Before printing, or while designing your menu, preview it in a simulated menu cover using MenuPro's patented menu cover preview display

Create instant table-tents

Turn any menu into a 2-UP or 4-UP Table Tent without having to retype, reformat, or start from scratch. It's just one click of the table tent button to turn your regular menu into an instant table-tent.

Comes complete - no other software required

MenuPro is easy to install and use. All fonts, Menu Styles, borders, and graphics are installed automatically. No other program or software is required.

MenuPro 9 Graphics, Clipart, Borders, and Fonts

MenuPro comes with over 1500 graphics & clipart images for restaurant menus including food & themed clipart, illustrations, borders, food photos, watermarks, backgrounds. Also included are over 140 genuine Monotype and ITC fonts.

With MenuPro's easy-to-use interface, it's a snap to add any image, logo, or background to your menu. You can add as many images as you like and place them anywhere on the menu. You can also mix and match fonts, borders and backgrounds with any menu design. Here's a sample of what's included:

Classic Loose Ink Illustrations

Stylish food and menu clipart in a classic loose ink style - created exclusively for SoftCafe by Stuart Armstong.

Well defined shapes and sharp lines make these images stand out on any printer.

Each image has been converted to vector format, so resizing maintains smoothness (some images come in color and watermark variations).

Menu Design Illustrations

Vibrant original illustrations of foods and hospitality themes from designer and master illustrator Tim Webb - all drenched with intensely colored ink.

Each image comes in color with a black and white clipart version as well.

Backgrounds and Watermarks

Watermarks and menu backgrounds of all types, from subtle filigrees to bold statements.

Each can be used as a primary background or can be resized to work in combination with other art.

Food Photos

Food photographs of the highest quality - shot exclusively for SoftCafe - from inviting ingredients to tools of the trade.

Additionally, each photo has been Photoshopped with digital filters by our designers and comes in six different variations: photo, watercolor, drop shadow, sepia, charcoal, and menu background.

All food photos are color corrected and background free

Borders and Fonts

Choose from simple border graphics to intricate Art Nouveau - from casual to fine dining, to everything in between.

Also included are themed and fancy borders perfect for children's or holiday menus.

Fonts include brush and casual scripts, hand-written fonts, bold headliners, kids fonts, blackletter fonts, formal fonts, and every-day workhorses.

The MenuPro Font Collection - Over 140 Original Fonts

The fonts that come with MenuPro are licensed from Monotype Imaging and ITC (International Typeface Corporation and Linotype GmbH). These are original source fonts, not crude imitations. Far from shareware or free knock-offs, you get the real deal with MenuPro - the same typefaces that professional designers use.

And you get the entire font - not embedded restricted versions such as those found in menu templates. So you can use any font that comes with MenuPro with any other program that you own.

Most of the fonts that come with MenuPro cost from $25 to $50 each when purchased separately, making the MenuPro font collection worth well over the cost of our entire menu software package.

For more information about Monotype and ITC fonts, see Monotype's web site www.fonts.com or Linotype's web site www.linotype.com

Compare MenuPro

Wondering how MenuPro® compares to Word®, Publisher® and others?

The biggest difference between MenuPro and Word-processing software is that MenuPro lets you save your menu items in a Food Item List and uses a unique design system called Menu Styles.

The Food Item List is a database of sorts, and Menu Styles are sort of like templates but without the limitations and restrictions. Both are exclusive to MenuPro. Together these two features alone separate MenuPro from any other product.

But there's more. Check out the comparison chart below:

Comparison Chart

FEATURE COMPARISON	Word® Publisher® other software	MenuPro®
MENU DESIGN AND CREATION
One-Click Menu Design with "Menu Styles"
Drag and Drop Menu Creation from Food List
Menu-smart Text and Price Alignment
9 Different Menu Price Formats for any Menu Style
Use up to 4 separate prices for each menu item
Automatic 'Make Menu Fit' Command
Automatic Menu Backgrounds for Menu Styles
Multi-page menus with auto-fit
Add your own logos and images	some
Box any Menu Item or Group of Items	some
Genuine ITC/Monotype Fonts	various	140+
Graphic Art, Borders, and Menu/Food Clipart	various	1500+
One-Click Food Symbol Highlights	0	135+
MENU ITEM DATABASE
Maintain a Complete List of Foods & Drinks
Organize Food/Drink List with Categories
Password Protection for List and Design Edits
Culinary and Multi-language Spell-check
PRINTING AND WEB UPLOADING
Instant 2-UP and 4-UP Table Tent Menus
Built-in PDF Creator with CMYK options
Built-in 'Menu to the WEB' Uploader
Email PDF Menus to Customers and Clients
Print in-house on any Printer
RESTAURANT SOFTWARE LICENSING AND SUPPORT
2-PC License
Free Tech Support for Life of Product
Free Product Updates for Minor Changes

Free Yourself from Print Shops, Designers, and Microsoft Word

The power of MenuPro comes from its ability to allow you to make quick changes to your menu without having to wait for a graphic design service or struggle with Word-processing software.

Graphics designers can be great but are usually slow and almost always expensive. Microsoft Word is great for all-around desktop publishing but way too complicated for setting up, and especially adapting to, real-world menus - even if you use templates.

Only with MenuPro can you make quick and frequent menu changes without having to deal with graphic designers or desktop publishing.