Rolling out Trivia that brings guests back
Date Night Trivia at the table, with a live scoreboard. Saved scores are rolling out.
For restaurant owners & GMs · high-end rooms · ~$150+ average guest check
Run your business with one email.
Manage personnel, scheduling, food inventory, your menu, weekly specials and trivia, all from one email address.
Questions first? Watch owner answers from Steve (each under 20 seconds).
Digital QR menu free · all services incl. AI-inspired 360° dish visuals $100/week per location, all-in · no setup fee ($250 waived) with a six-month commitment · locked for 2 years · hosting included. See offer. Snap your paper menu → we build your digital menu, QR code, and menu page → live within 24 hours → changes by email.
One email runs it
Send one email. The rest just happens.
Your restaurant gets its own address. Type what changed in the subject line, add a sentence, hit send. We handle the update.
Subject lines it understands:
Example restaurant and names shown for illustration.
For owners & GMs · pricing at a glance
Your QR menu is free. Everything else: $100 a week.
The digital QR menu costs nothing. The upgrade, AI-inspired 360° spinning dish visuals and AI-inspired steam video loops plus every other service, is $100/week all-in. No setup fee ($250 waived) with a six-month commitment. Locked for 2 years. Hosting included.
Free QR menu → All services $100/week
$0 menu · $100/week all-in
Free: digital QR menu. $100/week adds AI-inspired 360° spinning dish visuals + AI-inspired steam loops (also available on their own, ask us), online menu, QR code, website with hosting, languages, and Table Fun (trivia rolling out). Services only — bring your own device. Optional refurbished iPads $450 each, sold separately.
Why owners switch
Four reasons to use us
A lit-up menu that sells the dish
Real photos of every dish. Tap for the full-size photo, calories and protein.
Turn tonight’s guests into regulars
Guests opt in by email or cell right from your menu.
Rolling out The schedule runs itself
Staff confirm each shift with one tap. Can't-make-its go to coworkers automatically, so managers spend less time on the phone covering shifts.
How you go live
Five steps. You never need us in your kitchen.
- Sign upTell us your restaurant, your name and how to reach you. Takes a couple of minutes.
- Upload your menu photosSnap your own menu pages with your phone (or send a PDF or link). You take the pictures, we do the rest.
- We build itYour menu, QR code and, on the Menu + Website and Full package plans, your website. Built within 24 hours of payment and photos.
- Devices (optional)Bring your own device — we recommend iPads. Want us to set them up? Refurbished iPads are $450 each, one time, sold separately. Every table can also use its QR code.
- You’re liveChange prices or specials any time by emailing changes@
easylitemenu.com .
Table Fun on the Full package
See the iPads in action
Games and a picture menu on every table iPad. Real screens from the live app.
Early partners
Friends who are all in
Local owners promoting Easy Light Menu — buying as many as they can, as fast as they can, for lit menus in this new day and age.
Mike & Denise’s
Pizzeria, Bar & Grill · 728 E Veterans Pkwy
mikeanddenises.com
Early partner · promoting
Bristol Tap
Mike & Denise’s Bristol Tap · 46 N Cannonball Trl, Bristol, IL
Famous Bristol Burger since 1988
Early partner · promoting · Demo menu
The Vault
Yorkville · iPad sample on this site
Open demo menu
Early partner · sample / demo
From the floor
What Mike & Denise say
“Our regulars over fifty were squinting at paper menus in the dark. Easy Light Menu fixed that overnight — backlit, pinch-to-zoom, and when they tap an appetizer they actually see the dish. We’re buying as many as we can, as fast as we can. This is the new day and age for light menus.”
“Steve’s one of our best friends, and this product is the real deal. Guests stop asking for a flashlight. Prices change by email. We love Easy Light Menu and we’re all in.”
Attributed with permission. No star ratings or invented numbers.
The guest problem
Paper fails at $150+ checks
- Guests 50+ can’t read tiny type in a properly lit dining room.
- They won’t order the special they can’t see — and they won’t ask twice.
- Flashlight-on-phone is an embarrassment for a high-end table.
- Still photos don’t sell the plate the way motion and service do.
- Reprints when beef moves overnight — still illegible when they arrive.
The product
Backlit. Zoom. Motion. Service.
- A QR code at every table. Guests, especially younger diners, would rather hold their own phone than a sticky shared menu.
- Optional lit iPads in leather folios — hospitality, not a kiosk.
- Pinch-to-zoom like a phone so older eyes can enlarge type instantly.
- Tap an appetizer → smoking / animated dish, not just a still.
- Calorie counts on dishes — guests see estimated calories without leaving the menu.
- Quick language switch — tap to view the menu in Spanish and other languages.
- Short professional clip: a well-dressed waiter setting a beautiful place (candle and all).
- Email updates — subject = restaurant name. No owner IT.
On the iPad
Built for the room you run
Motion
Dish comes alive
Tap the appetizer — see heat, steam, finish. Not a flat JPEG.
Service clip
Place setting
Short clip of polished service — candle, linen, the standard you sell.
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Pinch-to-zoom
Same gesture as a phone. Guests 50+ enlarge type without asking the server for a flashlight.
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Calorie counts
Each dish can show estimated calories on the lit menu. Guests can also rank the whole menu by fewest calories or most protein in one tap. Live now on The Vault demo.
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Language switch
One tap to switch languages, including Spanish, so every guest can read the menu in their language.
Nested drinks → martinis, dish photos, weekend events / bands — yes at launch. In-menu ads: optional path so menus can help pay for themselves in about years 1–2 (estimate, not a guarantee).
New: rank the menu
Your guests asked. One tap answers.
Fewest calories or most protein, ranked from your own menu.
For your servers
Servers: hand it to the high-maintenance one.
Calories, protein, dish photos and languages, answered on the menu, so servers spend less time on twenty questions and more time on every table.
How you join · self-serve
Four steps. No owner IT.
- Pick a plan and click Start, then enter your restaurant, name, email, phone, and address.
- The digital QR menu is free. For the all-services package (AI-inspired 360° dish visuals included), pay by card through secure Stripe checkout: $100/week per location, all-in, locked for 2 years. No setup fee ($250 waived) with a six-month commitment. Hosting included. Optional refurbished iPads are $450 each, one time, sold separately.
- Upload photos of your paper menu (or a PDF), plus your logo and dish photos if you have them.
- We start from your current website and menu photos and build your menu, QR code and site within 24 hours. We email your QR code and menu link. After that, email changes to changes@easylitemenu.com.
Email or dictate your changes, and we rewrite, balance, and polish your menu. Print a fresh PDF for your existing menu covers anytime.
For restaurant owners
Sell the expensive plate. Change price in an email.
Paper menus dump margin on the floor. Guests can’t see the dessert. Staff are invisible. Costs move and you’re stuck until the printer runs.
Food comes to life
Tap the chicken parm — steam, garnish, the plate moves toward them. They don’t read a line. They want the meal.
Email = new menu
Meat up? Drink cost up? Email changes@easylitemenu.com with your restaurant name. Live on every table. Zero reprints.
Staff + tips
Photos and short bios for servers and bartenders. Guests tip better when they know Emily and Dylan.
Optional · families
Quiet kid games on the same locked iPads
When parents are dining, the folio iPad can offer a short, curated set of calm games for kids — same locked device, same table, no phone handoff. Optional add-on. Premium rooms stay quiet; kids stay occupied.
- Runs on your locked lit menus — no extra iPads to buy.
- Curated, low-noise games — not a carnival arcade.
- Parents finish the meal; kids stay at the table.
- You turn it on only if it fits your room.
Selling point
Families book you again
High-end rooms still get the leather folio and the lit menu. The games sit behind a simple kids path so the dining room never looks like a playroom — just a quieter table.
Optional add-on with table iPads. Ask when you sign up.
Same iPads · your list
Guest contact & marketing on the menu
The lit menu is also how you own the relationship — email, cell, reviews, and specials — without mailing paper or renting someone else’s ads.
Collect
Email and/or cell at the table
- Guests leave email and/or cell on the same iPad they used for the menu.
- Offer: text the bill or email the bill — their choice.
- You build your guest database — not a third-party list.
Market
Specials go digital only
- Coupons, drink specials, food specials — by email or text.
- No more mailing paper. Faster, cheaper, tracked.
- You talk to people who already ate with you.
After the meal
Soft ask: review + free gift on a future visit
After they pay, a quiet prompt: leave a review, then get a free gift next time they’re in. More reviews. More return visits. Your owned list — not spam from someone else’s ad network.
- More public reviews without awkward staff asks.
- A reason to come back (gift on a future visit).
- Owner benefit: repeat business and a list you control.
Pricing
Your QR menu is free. Everything else: $100 a week.
Snap your paper menu. We build it, give you a QR code and website, and keep it current by email. Live within 24 hours, free. Upgrade to AI-inspired 360° spinning dish visuals and every service for $100/week all-in. No setup fee ($250 waived) with a six-month commitment. Locked for 2 years. Hosting included.
$0 digital QR menu
Built from photos of your paper menu · your QR code · changes by email
Get your free menuAll services · the upgrade
$100 a week per location, all-in
No setup fee ($250 waived) with a six-month commitment · price locked for 2 years · hosting included
- AI-inspired 360° spinning dish visuals + AI-inspired steam video loops Most menu apps don’t offer this; the only competitor we’ve seen listing AI photos/3D is FineDine. Want just the visuals? Available on their own — ask us.
- Online menu, QR code, and a website we build and manage
- Website hosting included — you do not pay for that separately
- Changes by email: prices, specials, dish replacements
- Calorie and protein ranking · 15 languages
- Table Fun: kids corner, plus table trivia (rolling out)
- Easy Light services only — bring your own device
Optional refurbished iPads, $450 each, one time, sold separately.
Get your free menuDevices: Easy Light Menu is services only. Bring your own device — we recommend iPads. Refurbished iPads we set up for you are $450 each, one time, yours to keep.
Optional add-on: Auto-Sync Setup, $600 one-time. We connect your register or menu system, so when you change a price in your own system, your online menu updates overnight. No email needed. Each night your system’s menu export (a spreadsheet) is sent to us and we update your menu.
Optional add-on: AI receptionist. A 24/7 AI that answers your restaurant’s calls, takes messages, and helps when staff can’t pick up. Contact us for pricing · 847-489-5713 · menus@easylitemenu.com.
Ready for lit menus?
High-end rooms first. We’re building with partners in Yorkville, Bristol, Naperville, and St. Charles — owners who treat the partnership clean.
Reply with your menu and we'll send back a free working demo within 24 hours.
Get started Get your free menuCall or text Steve: 847-489-5713 · menus@easylitemenu.com
