For independent restaurants

Your food deserves
a better first impression.

Guests judge you in three seconds on their phone. Carte turns that moment into appetite — beautiful plates, clear prices, and a menu that stays honest when the kitchen runs out. Flat fee. Zero commission. Your house, your margin.

  • Plates they can almost taste
  • Sold-out, updated live
  • One QR that never goes stale
  • No marketplace cut
How it looks on their phone

Harbor & Hearth

Tonight: wood-fired focaccia with the table

Tonight's plates

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Dungeness Crab Toast

$22

Roasted Beet Salad

$16

Cedar-Plank Salmon

$34

Dungeness Crab Toast

$22

They're ordering this

Roasted Beet Salad

$16

Looks as good as it tastes

Cedar-Plank Salmon

$34

Tonight's star

Hearth Burger

$24

Always a favorite

This is what pride looks like on a guest's phone

What guests still open

A washed-out photo of last year's paper menu. They pinch, squint, guess at the specials, and half of them walk away cold. You cooked the food. The listing is selling someone else's standards.

What they should open

Your plates, lit well. Prices that are true tonight. A quiet note from the kitchen. Filters for the guest who eats gluten-free. The feeling that this is a house that pays attention.

Make “serious restaurant” mean something again

People don't choose menus. They choose rooms that feel intentional. Your digital menu is the first room they enter — often before they ever walk through the door.

Guests decide with their eyes first

Before they taste a thing, they decide whether your food looks worth ordering. A blurry PDF tells them you don't care. A live menu with real plates tells them tonight will be good.

The table next door already expects this

People carry a restaurant in their pocket. When your neighbor shows a polished, searchable menu and you show a photo of paper, you lose the first impression you never get back.

You look in control — because you are

When the kitchen 86s the salmon, every phone at every table knows. No awkward walk-backs. No reprinting. Just a house that runs like it means it.

Quiet power for the people who run the floor

Not another ordering app. Not a delivery marketplace. Just the menu — owned by you, beautiful for them, honest for the kitchen.

Appetite on arrival

Show the plate, not the paragraph. Guests lean in, order what looks irresistible, and tip higher when dinner already felt special.

Sold out without the scramble

One tap from the kitchen. Every phone updates. Servers stop apologizing mid-order.

Everyone finds their seat at the table

Vegetarian, spicy, gluten-free — clear at a glance. Fewer questions. Happier first-timers.

Table tents that stay true

Print once. Hang once. Change the menu as often as you change the specials.

Tonight, your way

A short note from the house — the wine flight, the focaccia, the reason to linger.

Your link, everywhere

Website, Instagram bio, Google listing, texts to regulars — one beautiful menu that always matches the room.

What regulars already believe

You don't need to invent demand. You only need to meet the standard guests quietly set every night.

More than words

Menus with real plate photos move more of what you want to sell — guests order what they can see.

The new normal

Most diners already open a menu on their phone. The question is whether yours earns pride or a shrug.

One code, forever true

Print the QR once. Change the menu every night. The tent on the table never lies.

Pay like a restaurant, not a tech company

One clear fee. No cut of the check. $19 keeps one live menu and its QR honest every night. Another location? +$5/mo — or grow into a house with several doors.

Starter

$19/mo

Everything one serious dining room needs.

  • One live menu guests will actually open
  • Printable QR that never goes out of date
  • Kitchen can mark sold-out in a tap
  • Extra door / patio / truck: +$5/mo
Start for $19

Growth

$39/mo

When the second address deserves the same polish.

  • Up to 5 doors under one roof
  • Room for managers and kitchen staff
  • Each location stays its own menu
  • Smarter once you outgrow a single house
Choose Growth

Group

$99/mo

When you run a handful of rooms — and want them to feel like one house.

  • Menus & QR for up to 12 locations
  • One team for every dining room you run
  • Each kitchen keeps its own live menu
  • Proud guest experience at every door
Choose Group

Enterprise

from $299/mo

Growing past 12 locations? We'll build a plan around how you actually operate.

  • Built for groups past 12 locations
  • Sized to how you actually operate
  • Network HQ — push menus, live 86, regions
  • White-glove onboarding with your team
Talk to us

Zero commission. You keep the check. Leave whenever you like.

Be the restaurant that looks like it cooks.

Print the code. Share the link. Let every guest open a menu that already tastes like yes — before they order a single plate.