Menu translator

How it works

1. 1 Paste your menu, from a document, your website or a delivery app, and the page reads it into lines: sections, dishes, descriptions and prices. Or type it in.
2. 2 Pick up to four languages your guests read. Mark any dish whose name stays as it is, like shakshuka, and any word that's yours, like the café's name.
3. 3 Signed in, the AI drafts one language at a time. Signed out, you type each line yourself.
4. 4 Every drafted line comes back with a plain-English read-back, so you can check a menu you can't read. If your menu names an allergen and the read-back doesn't, the line is flagged.
5. 5 Fix anything, have someone who reads the language check it, then print it under each dish, side by side, or a page per language.

Free, and it works signed out. Drafting with AI takes a free account, up to 40 asks a day across LocoTap's AI tools, one ask per language. Signed out, you can try a made-up example: its translations are written ahead of time, and nothing is sent or kept. For a board of today's specials, try the specials board builder.

Good to know

What goes to the AI?

When you ask for a draft: your dish names, descriptions and section headings, the words you keep as written, your business name, and which language to write. They go to our AI provider. Your prices never do: they stay in this page. The answer comes back to this page and LocoTap doesn't keep or log it; we only count the ask, so the daily limit works.

Is this machine translation?

The AI writes a first draft, and a draft can be wrong: a word that reads oddly, a dish that sounds like something else. That's why every line reads back in plain English and the page says when a line wants a look. Before a menu goes in front of guests, have someone who reads the language check it: a staff member, a regular, a friend. Tick the box when they have, and the menu shows it's been checked.

What does the allergen check catch?

It reads your English menu for common allergens (peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, soy, sesame, mustard, fish, shellfish and sulphites) and flags a line when the read-back doesn't name the same ones. It only knows what your menu says, not what's in the kitchen, and it reads English words only, so it runs on a menu written in English. A line with no flag isn't a promise: name every allergen on your menu, and check every translation.

"Keep the name as it is"?

Some dishes are known by their own name: bibimbap, poutine, shakshuka. Mark one and the name stays exactly as you wrote it, with a few words in each language saying what it is. Words you keep as written, like your café's name or a house sauce, stay the same everywhere.

Will Punjabi, Chinese or Arabic print properly?

Each language is set in its own script, right to left where it reads that way. Print a test page first: how it looks depends on the fonts on the device you print from. Remember is off by default; turn it on and the menu, prices and translations stay in this browser, nowhere else.

A tool to help you write a menu, not allergy or food-safety advice.