QR code menu · table ordering · no app

A QR code menu for your restaurant, so table 6 doesn't wave three times.

Tadka Tech's QR code menu puts a code on every table. A guest scans it with the phone camera, sees the live menu your counter is running and orders to that table, with no app to install. The order reaches your kitchen screen, and whether the kitchen waits for the money first is a setting you choose.

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Updated October 2026By Tadka Tech+91 88470 21579

01How to get a QR code for a restaurant menu

How to get a QR code for every table.

You don't have the codes made anywhere. They exist the moment a table exists, and each one already knows which table it belongs to.

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Back office · table QR codes

1
Open
Tables & Floor → QR Codes
The count at the top shows tables and codes side by side, so you can see every table is covered. New tables get their code as soon as they are drawn.
2
Pick
Filter by section
Only the rooftop? Choose the section, or search a table's name.
3
Print
PNG for the print shop, or print here
Download a large PNG named after the table for a standee or sticker, or Print All Tables, three cards to a row.
4
Place
One on each table's stand
Reprint a single card after a spill without touching the others.

02At the table

What a QR menu should fix — and what it must not break.

Table-QR menu on a phone: ordering for your table, dine-in

Busy floor

“Table 6 has waved three times. They still haven't ordered.”

TadkaGuests scan the QR on the table and order from their own phone, for that table only, then add more later and pay from the phone or at the counter.

QR Self-Order

Sold out

“The paper menu still says paneer tikka. We ran out at eight.”

TadkaMark the dish out of stock once: it greys out at the counter and disappears from the QR menu by itself.

Menu Management

Kitchen note

“Less spicy, kids at the table.” Who wrote that down?

TadkaThe guest types it in Special instructions on the dish, and the same note shows on the kitchen ticket under that item, with nobody writing it again.

Kitchen display

Strangers

“Can someone at the next table add things to our bill?”

TadkaNo. Once an order is running on a table, a new scan from another number is told so and can't add items without signing in with the first number.

QR Self-Order

Bill summary with a seating charge and a weekend charge on their own lines

Rooftop

“Nobody told us there was a rooftop charge.”

TadkaSet a charge once for a section or a time. The table's QR menu tells guests before they order, and the bill prints it on its own line with its GST.

Tables & surcharges

Walk-outs

“A QR order came in, the kitchen cooked it, and nobody paid.”

TadkaWith Pay upfront, a pay-at-counter QR order waits under Needs Approval with a bell, and goes to the kitchen only when the counter collects.

Orders

03Watch it

A new rooftop, four new tables, four new QR codes.

The owner draws the rooftop on the floor plan, prints a QR card for every new table, sets a charge for rooftop seating and checks that the guest's bill comes out exactly right.

Hindi narration · recorded on a live demo restaurant opening a rooftop. Read the QR ordering guide in Tadka Academy

04QR menu for restaurant guests

What the guest sees after the scan.

“Ordering for T05, Dine-in” at the top, so the guest never has to tell anyone the table number
A Most Loved row you choose, a Highly Ordered filter for first-timers, and a Menu button that jumps to any category
Your sizes and add-ons asked the way a waiter would: half or full, raita with the biryani
A bill summary with GST and round-off before they place the order
Loyalty points or an offer code, one discount per order, and offers you can limit to the QR channel
An optional tip on its own line; the GST doesn't change
Live tracking after ordering: Received, Accepted, Preparing, Ready, Served

The menu

Checkout — the diner signs in with a WhatsApp OTP

The cart

05Your rules

What reaches the kitchen, and when.

Ordering from the table is the easy half. Deciding when the kitchen starts is the part that protects your money, and it is one setting.

Pay upfront

Food courts, crowded cafés, places where people come and go

Nothing is made until the payment is confirmed. A guest who picks Pay at Counter sees their token and is asked to pay; Collect & send at the counter records the money and sends the order to the kitchen in one click.

After the meal

Family restaurants where guests sit and pay when they leave

The kitchen starts at once. The counter just hears one ring and sees a New order strip, and the guest sees your own message, such as “please pay at the counter on your way out”.

Adding more

The kids want a shake halfway through

The new items join the same order and the same bill. Under Pay upfront only the new items wait for payment; the food already paid for keeps cooking.

Paying online

UPI from the phone

Switch Pay at Counter and online payment on or off separately; if both are switched off by mistake, Pay at Counter stays on. A prepaid order can still wait for staff approval, or go straight to the kitchen.

Only the table QR

Will this change my takeaway or kiosk?

No. The QR Ordering settings apply only to the table QR; takeaway, delivery and the kiosk keep their own rules.
Every QR setting, step by step

06QR menu vs a PDF menu

A live menu, not a photo of one.

A QR code that opens a PDF of your printed menu saves paper and nothing else: the guest still has to call a waiter, the prices go out of date, and the dish you ran out of is still on it. A Tadka Tech QR code opens the same menu record your counter runs: the same items, prices, photos and add-ons. Change a price in Menu Management and the QR menu shows the new one. Mark a dish unavailable and it stops being orderable everywhere at once.

And the order is real. It lands on your Orders board on the right table, its ticket reaches the kitchen screen with the guest's notes, and the bill at the end is your restaurant's GST bill. Cards printed under an older link format still work, so you never have to reprint the whole floor to change something.

07Questions

QR code menu: questions owners ask.

How do I get a QR code for my restaurant menu?

In Tadka Tech every table already has one. Open Tables & Floor → QR Codes: each table's code is ready the moment the table is made. Download it as a PNG for a print shop, print one card, or press Print All Tables and put one on each table's stand.

Do guests need to download an app to order from the QR code?

No. The phone camera opens the menu in the phone's own browser, already set to that table. Nothing to install and no account needed to read the menu.

If I change a price or a dish runs out, do I need new QR codes?

No. The QR menu is the same menu your counter runs, so prices, photos and availability change everywhere at once. An item marked out of stock simply disappears from the QR menu. The codes stay the same.

Why does the guest have to enter a phone number?

Only to place the order; browsing is open. The guest signs in once with an OTP on WhatsApp. Order updates go to that number, loyalty points are added to it, and it stops anyone else adding items to that table's bill.

Can the kitchen wait until the guest has paid?

Yes. Set Payment timing to Pay upfront and a Pay at Counter order waits under Needs Approval until the counter collects the money and sends it to the kitchen. Choose After the meal and the kitchen starts at once.

What if someone at another table scans our table's QR code?

The menu doesn't open for them. They are told an order is already running on this table under another number, and they can add to it only by signing in with that number. If the order was started at the counter, they are asked to see staff, and the counter's bell shows a possible wrong-table order.

Do QR orders show the GST before the guest orders?

Yes. The cart shows a bill summary with the subtotal, the GST, the round-off and the total, the same bill the counter will make. Any seating or time charge for that table is shown on the menu before ordering.

08Keep reading

Around the table.

Deep Dive · Part 8 guide

QR ordering from the table

A family orders from the table QR while the counter decides when they pay and what reaches the kitchen.