Having the perfect pizza restaurant menu is the best way to affect and improve your bottom line profits directly. From how your pizza menu is laid out to the way you list out your items, the format and design of your pizza menu template will play a vital role in branding, food sales, and your pizzeria image.

 

Tips to effective pizza restaurant menu design

 

Let's now look at six best practice tips for pizzeria menu templates. 

 

1. Colors

 

Never go with a white background and red or green text headers and the regular black color for item names and descriptions. This will not separate you from the competition and, more importantly, not make an impact on your customers.

 

First and foremost, you must include your brand's colors in your pizza menu design. This emphasizes your brand's images and gives your menu template personality.

 

2. Style

 

After you have your colors identified, begin reviewing pizza menu template ideas for inspiration. Knowing what style menu you're like, you can give your pizza menu designer a starting point from what style to design around.

 

3. Menu Item Review

 

Before beginning to design your pizza menu template, do a thorough review of your menu. Make sure all items are accurate with catchy names and mouth-watering descriptions. Then do costs check to ensure you're making your desired margin and selling your items at the correct price.

 

4. Design

 

When setting up your layout design, make sure not to include too many items per category/page. Keep the design clean and easy to read. If there are too many items on a page, add a second page and readjust it. Less is more.

 

5. Images

 

Always try and use images of your food. Stock images will set the wrong exceptions of your food and are potentially harmful if your guests have seen them in other menus before; for quality, consider hiring professional food photography. This will get you high-quality professional images that you can use in your menu, flyers, banners, and social media.

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6. Increase food ticket sale averages

 

Look at making room for places that you can insert large food images of featured items to better drive sales and interest of your highest margin food sales. Also, list specials on new desserts and add-ons like "add an Italian cheese bread for 1.99".

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Getting Started

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Because pizza menu templates are what your customers will look at to place orders, the pizza menu layout must be correctly set up. Our team of professional pizza menu designers have over ten years of experience in custom menu design and will work with you to make the perfect pizza menu.

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To get started, select the pizza menu template style you like and make the menu design purchase. Upon placing your order, you will receive an email to click to upload your word document, spreadsheet, or PDF menu of items and prices.

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From there, we will analyze your menu and create a proof. Once made, we will send you the proof to review and provide feedback. This proof and revision process goes on until you are 100% satisfied with the design and approval.

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After approval, we will finalize your pizza menu template design, then send you all files, including the original design files.

 

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