Industries · Food & beverage
QR ordering and online menus built for bar service.
Customers scan the QR at their booth and order another round from their phone. Happy hour prices auto-flip on at 5pm and off at 8pm. Limited cocktail specials cap at 30 a night. Your staff focuses on the bar; the menu runs itself.
Where bar service gets squeezed
Five frictions specific to bar operations.
Servers shuttling between tables and bar all night
Friday night, the place is full. Every table needs another round in 15 minutes. The single server runs herself ragged. Self-order via QR would help — but your POS doesn't do QR.
Happy hour pricing requires manual menu flipping
5–8pm RM 18 cocktails. After 8 RM 28. Currently the team manually swaps the printed menu, resets the POS, hopes no one orders in between.
Limited cocktail specials that sell out unpredictably
You make a Cocktail of the Week with limited ingredients — 30 a night max. Without a cap, the bar might say "yes" to the 31st order while the kitchen is already empty.
Regulars who deserve recognition without a punch card
Five regulars come every Thursday. They tip well. They drink your premium gin. You want to reward them — but a paper card is fiddly and a separate loyalty app is overkill.
Tickets that look like a bar ticket, not a generic receipt
Beer orders, cocktails, food add-ons all need to land on a printout the bartender can read at a glance — items grouped, modifiers visible, table number top-line. Default system receipts buried in line-item detail slow the bar down.
How WhatsMenu fits a bar
Each friction maps to a feature.
A bar ticket layout you design
Build a bar-ticket template in Order Print — paper size, items grouped how you like them, modifiers, table number, channel — and one-click print to the thermal printer behind the bar. With Print Node added, prints fire automatically as orders arrive.
Learn more →Scheduled availability handles happy hour pricing
Set "happy hour cocktails" category: shows 5–8pm only with discounted prices. Same drinks, different prices. After 8pm the regular menu shows. No manual flipping; menu runs itself.
Learn more →Daily limit caps the cocktail specials
Cocktail of the Week: 30 a night. Once the cap hits, the storefront shows "sold out" and the bar stops being asked for it. No 31st order disappointment.
Learn more →Loyalty points reward the Thursday regulars
Customers earn points on every paid order. Premium gin earns more (set custom multipliers). After enough points, free drink or appetizer. No card, no separate app — same storefront.
Learn more →Reviews from real customers, in your dashboard
Registered customers can leave a star rating and comment from their order page once it's closed. Reviews land in your Reviews dashboard tied to the original order — useful for spotting service issues by date / staff and for identifying happy regulars to ask for Google reviews. Public on-storefront review display is on the roadmap.
Learn more →How a bar uses WhatsMenu through a Friday night
Friday 5pm the happy hour menu auto-flips on. Tables 4 and 7 scan their QR codes; they order another round from their phones. Orders hit the bar dashboard; with PrintNode connected, the bar-ticket template prints to the thermal printer behind the bar — bartender works the queue, makes the cocktails, calls them out. By 7:30 the Cocktail of the Week's daily-limit cap (30) hits — the storefront shows "sold out tonight," no more disappointment. At 8pm happy hour auto-ends; the regular menu re-shows. A regular Thursday-night visitor pays his bill: he's earned 200 loyalty points, redeems 100 for a free Negroni. Saturday morning he leaves a 5-star review through his order page; you spot it in the Reviews dashboard, ask him for a Google review next time he's in.
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Frequently asked questions
Can customers order another round from their phones via QR?
Yes. Generate a QR per table; customers scan, browse the bar menu, place an order. The order shows in your dashboard immediately — print the bar ticket one-click, or add Print Node to auto-fire prints as orders arrive. Self-order = faster turn, less server-running.
Can I set happy hour pricing that auto-applies 5–8pm only?
Yes. Scheduled Availability lets you create a "happy hour" category that shows only between 5–8pm with discounted prices. Outside those hours, the regular menu shows. Auto-flips, no manual swap.
Can I cap the daily inventory of a special cocktail?
Yes. Daily Limit caps total orders and total items per day at the company level (with per-weekday and per-date overrides). For caps on a specific cocktail (Cocktail of the Week limited to 30 a night), use Stock Management on that item with the qty reset each evening; it shows "sold out" once the count hits zero.
Can I route bar orders to a different printer than food orders?
Not from a single auto-rule today. The practical setup: build two templates in Order Print (one bar, one kitchen) and print each manually to its station printer, or run a Print Node agent on each station PC pointing at its own printer. Per-category auto-routing from a single order is on the roadmap.
How do I verify customer age for alcohol orders?
Currently WhatsMenu doesn't enforce age verification on the order side; it's up to the bar to verify on collection. For most regional markets (MY, SG) age check happens at the door or table-side, not in the order app. If you serve a regulated market that needs ID verification, that's a custom workflow — get in touch.
How does pricing work for a bar using WhatsMenu?
Flat monthly subscription, no per-order fee. Payment-gateway processing fee (e.g. ~2.9%) on online payments only. If most orders pay at the bar after the round, no online fee at all.
Pour faster, run leaner.
QR ordering, happy hour scheduling, daily limits, station printing — all in one platform.
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