Free restaurant menu template: a ready-to-edit layout for Saudi restaurants and cafés

Most menu templates online look nice but miss what a menu in Saudi Arabia has to show. You fill in dish names and prices, print 50 copies, and then learn that calories, caffeine or the VAT note are missing.

This page gives you a free, plain template you can copy into Word, Google Docs, Canva or any design app. It already has a place for every detail your menu needs, so you can focus on your dishes.

What a good menu template includes

Before the template, here is what it covers and why:

• Your name, area and opening hours at the top, so a guest who keeps the menu knows where it came from.
• Clear sections in the order guests eat: starters, mains, sides, desserts, drinks.
• A short line under each dish with the main ingredients. "Chef's special" tells a guest nothing.
• One price per size, as the final price the guest pays.
• Calories for every item, and for drinks, caffeine.
• Allergen and dietary tags: nuts, gluten, dairy, eggs, seafood, sesame, spicy, vegetarian.
• A footer with the daily calorie note, the VAT note and a QR code to your digital menu.

The free template (copy and edit)

Copy the text below into your document. Replace everything in [square brackets]. Repeat the dish line as many times as you need.

[Restaurant name] · [Area, city] · Open [days and hours]

All prices in SAR and include VAT.

Starters

[Dish name] — [main ingredients in one line] — [price] — [calories] kcal — Contains: [allergens]

Mains

[Dish name] — [main ingredients] — [price] — [calories] kcal — Contains: [allergens] — [Salt icon if over 5 g salt]

Desserts

[Dish name] — [main ingredients] — [price] — [calories] kcal — Contains: [allergens]

Drinks

[Drink name] — [size] — [price] — [calories] kcal — Caffeine: [mg] per cup

Footer: Adults need an average of 2,000 calories a day; individual needs vary. Adults should have no more than 400 mg of caffeine a day. Activity needed to burn each item's calories: [see icons]. Scan the QR code for the menu in other languages.

A filled-in example

Here is how one section looks when it's done. The numbers are only an example: use your own recipes and lab or supplier values.

Mains

Chicken mandi — slow-cooked rice, half chicken, mandi spices — 38 — 950 kcal — No main allergens — Salt icon

Grilled halloumi wrap — halloumi, tomato, mint, flatbread — 24 — 520 kcal — Contains: dairy, gluten — Vegetarian

Step by step: filling in your template

1. List every item you sell today. Leave out dishes you no longer make. A shorter menu is easier to read and easier to keep correct.
2. Group them into four to six sections. Too many sections make guests scroll or flip.
3. Write one line per dish. Main ingredients first, then anything special (spicy, served with rice, for two people).
4. Add the final price. It must be the price the guest pays, VAT included. Our free VAT calculator helps you check.
5. Add calories, caffeine and the salt icon. Get the values from your recipes, a nutrition lab or your suppliers.
6. Tag allergens. Check every sauce and topping, not just the main ingredient.
7. Ask a colleague to read it once. Fresh eyes catch wrong prices and missing tags.

What Saudi rules ask your menu to show

Two sets of rules shape every menu in the Kingdom.

Nutrition labels (SFDA). Menus in Saudi Arabia already have to show calories. From 1 July 2025, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority also asks menus to show caffeine in drinks (in mg per 100 ml or per cup, with a note that adults should have no more than 400 mg a day), a "Salt" icon on items with more than 5 g of salt, and the time of physical activity needed to burn each item's calories (SFDA announcement). The salt rule covers paper and electronic menus and online ordering platforms. Our guide to SFDA calorie labelling rules explains each label.

VAT-inclusive prices. The Ministry of Commerce says displayed prices must be final, include VAT, and match what the cashier charges (Saudi Gazette). So the price on your menu is the price on the bill.

Design tips for print, PDF and Word

• Use one or two fonts. One for headings, one for dishes. More looks messy.
• Leave space. White space between sections makes a menu faster to read than bigger text.
• Keep labels the same everywhere. The same icon for spicy, the same word for vegetarian, on every page.
• For Arabic and English side by side, put each language in its own column and keep prices in one place, so they can't drift apart. Our guide to a multilingual menu covers translation.
• Save a PDF before printing. Check it on a phone too: many guests will see your menu as a photo or a file shared on WhatsApp.

From a paper template to a digital menu

A printed template has one weak spot: every price change means printing again. A digital QR menu keeps the same structure but updates in seconds.

Restu Menu gives you this template as a live menu in Arabic and English:

• AI menu import. Upload a photo or PDF of your current menu, and AI fills the dishes in Arabic and English for you to review.
• Calories and allergen tags on every item, shown the same way in both languages.
• Sold-out switch and offers with start and end dates, without reprinting.
• One QR code per table, with table ordering and pickup if you want them.

Try everything free for 30 days, no card needed. See the QR menu page or our pricing, and make a printable table card with the free QR menu generator.

Common questions

Can I use this template for free? Yes. Copy it, change it and print it as often as you like.

Does a QR menu need the same labels as a printed one? Yes. The SFDA rules name electronic menus, and the salt rule also names online ordering platforms.

Where do I get calorie numbers? From your recipes and ingredient labels, a nutrition lab, or your suppliers. Don't guess: wrong numbers are worse than none.

Should prices show "VAT included"? Prices must already include VAT. A short note at the top makes this clear to guests.

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