QR code menu for ice cream and gelato shops

A QR code menu for an ice cream shop shows today's flavors on the guest's phone while they wait in line, lets them pick scoops, a cone or cup and toppings, and takes ice cream cake orders for the day you can make them. With Menuthere, a code on the window or the case opens your menu without an app, you switch a flavor off the moment the tub runs dry, and Menuthere takes 0% commission. Menu codes and ordering are on the Free plan.

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Which code goes where in a scoop shop

A line in July reads the window from a meter or more away, so the code there needs to be bigger than a table card's: a code scans from about ten times its width, which is about 15 cm for a window read from 1.5 m, against about 3.5 cm on a table card. The QR code size calculator works it out for your link.

A scoop menu, built for phones

Why a double and a triple are separate items

A flavor group's "Up to" number is fixed on the item, not on each size. If "Scoop cup" had sizes for one, two and three scoops, its flavor group would allow the same number of flavors for all three. So make Single scoop, Double scoop and Triple scoop their own items, with flavor groups of "Up to 1", "Up to 2" and "Up to 3". With More than one of each on, a guest can choose dark chocolate twice for a double, and the order shows "Dark chocolate ×2". Mark the flavor group Required so nobody orders an empty cup. "Up to" is a maximum, so a guest could pick one flavor on a double; that's still two scoops of it in practice.

Today's flavors, every day

The case changes daily, and the phone menu has to keep up.

• A flavor runs out. A single flavor option has no off switch of its own, so the quickest route is to remove it from the flavor groups while it's out, and add it back when the next batch is ready. If your flavors are few and fixed, list them as items in a "Today's flavors" category instead, where each has its own on/off switch.
• An item runs out, such as waffle cones or a sundae: switch it off and guests see Unavailable.
• Seasonal hours. Set your working hours for the season. When you're closed, the menu stays readable, and on Lite guests can pre-order a cake for a time you're open.
• Today's board. The free daily specials board prints the flavor of the day for the window.

Ice cream cakes and pints to go

Cakes need a day or two. On Lite, limit pre-orders to your cakes, set the notice (for example 2 days) and the days you make them, and checkout only offers dates that meet it. A cake and a cone in one basket are asked to split, so walk-in treats still order normally. Selling pints and cakes for pickup and delivery is its own job, with its own setup: see online ordering for ice cream shops. This page sticks to what happens in the shop.

Allergens at the dipping cabinet

Scoop-shop guests ask about the same handful of allergens every day, and the case is where cross-contact happens: one scoop, many tubs. Each item can carry any of 14 allergens, and guests see them when they tap it. The ones that matter in a scoop shop:

Because flavors are add-on options, an allergen ticked on the item covers the cup, not each flavor. So name the allergen in the option itself when only some flavors carry it, and say on the menu whether you use separate scoops for nut flavors. The free allergen chart maker prints a chart for the case from what you tick.

A real Menuthere scoop shop

RivaReno Gelato Brickell, on South Miami Avenue in Miami, has taken takeaway orders on its own Menuthere website since October 2026. Its menu has 10 items in sections such as Ice Cream and Sundaes & Waffles, priced from $4.99 to $9.99, including gelato scoops in a waffle cone, sorbetto, crepes and fresh-baked cookies.

A worked example: a family at the patio table

Paid by card through your own Stripe account at Stripe's standard US price of 2.9% + 30¢, the fee is $1.32 ($1.02 + $0.30). Menuthere's commission is $0. A shop doing 60 orders on a summer Saturday passes the Free plan's 50 orders in a day, so the season needs Lite at $17 a month, with unlimited orders.

What an ice cream shop QR menu costs

Lite and Pro start with a 7-day free trial; adding a card starts it. Prefer a paper punch card for regulars? The free loyalty stamp card maker prints "buy 9, get the 10th free" cards with your order link on the back. Selling from a truck or cart in summer? See QR code menus for food trucks.

Not a fit if

• You need one scoop item whose flavor limit changes with size. Use separate items, as above.
• Flavors must switch on and off from the case tablet one by one while staying inside one flavor group. Use a "Today's flavors" category if you need per-flavor switches.
• You need a deposit on cake orders. Pre-orders are paid like any other order.
• Your POS must receive the orders. Menuthere has no ready-made link to Square, Toast or Clover.

Set up your ice cream shop's QR code menu

1. Create your store. Search for your shop on Google to fill in the name, address and photos, or start by hand.
2. Add scoop items. Make single, double and triple scoop items, each with a required flavor group of up to 1, 2 or 3.
3. Add cones, toppings and pints. Add a required cone-or-cup group, a toppings group and pint sizes.
4. Tag allergens. Tick allergens on each item and name nuts in the flavor options that contain them.
5. Set up cake notice. On Lite, limit pre-orders to your cakes with the notice and days you need.
6. Print the codes. Print a large menu code for the window and table codes for the patio.

Menu codes and ordering are free, with 0% commission.

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