TAQR.

The challenge

Restaurants serve guests who speak many languages, and their menus need to speak them too. Translating every menu by hand is slow and expensive, and it has to be done again every time a dish changes.

Translation is only part of it. Each dish must show its allergens clearly, the same dish often appears on more than one menu, and a group with several restaurants needs all of this to stay consistent without copying the same content over and over.

The approach

As Fractional CTO, I led the technology behind TAQR, a platform for restaurants, hotels and other hospitality venues, where a venue manages its menus in one place and publishes them through a QR code that guests open on their phone.

• Five languages from one source. Menus are translated automatically into Italian, English, French, German and Spanish, so the restaurant writes each dish once.
• Ingredients and allergens on every dish, with allergens shown through a standard set of icons.
• Dishes, not copies. A dish can belong to several menus at once, so it is managed in one place.
• As many menus as needed, each with its own categories: seasonal, daily or for events, with photos of the dishes.
• The venue's own look. Colours, fonts, backgrounds and links to the venue's social channels.

The stack is lean: React and Vite for the front end, Supabase on the back end.

The outcome

TAQR is used by the restaurants of the group it was built for. The group has since opened the platform to other venues, which can sign up and use it for their own menus.