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Your menu read in four languages

A Greek, German or Russian guest reads your menu with every section and every label in their own language, and you print nothing. Your dish names stay in the words your kitchen uses, on purpose.

WHAT IS IN FOUR LANGUAGES. The sections your menu is divided into, and every label a guest reads around it: Sold out, Cooking today, Today only, Members pay, In store, Not for pickup, Search the menu. All of it, in English, Greek, German and Russian, already done and nothing for you to do.

HOW YOUR HEADINGS GET THERE. You do not have to use our names for your sections. Type STARTERS, or OREKTIKA in Greek letters, or Vorspeisen, and it is matched onto the standard Cyprus section it belongs to, which already has its four languages. Where the match is not certain, your own heading is kept rather than a guess being made. The word Drinks on its own is deliberately not matched, because it covers four different sections and picking one would be wrong three times out of four.

YOUR DISH NAMES STAY YOURS. Souvla is souvla. Halloumi is halloumi. Afelia is afelia. We do not translate the food, and a seller who promises your dish names in German is promising something that does not happen and should not.

THAT IS THE RIGHT LINE, not a limitation. A visitor needs to know which part of the menu they are looking at and whether a dish is sold out. They do not need Kleftiko renamed into German, they need to be able to order it by pointing at it and saying the word.

What it looks like A Russian couple open your menu on their phone. The headings read in Russian, the Sold out label reads in Russian, the Cooking today dish is marked in Russian. The dishes read the way you wrote them, which is also the way your waiter will understand when they order.
Worth knowing If you want a dish explained rather than translated, put the explanation in the dish description. That is the field for it, and it is the one place where writing for a visitor rather than a regular actually pays.

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