Table codes you can print this afternoon.Table codes you can print this afternoon.

What comes out of it

One numbered file per table, ready for a sheet of sticker paper or a print shop. Each label is square and prints cleanly at whatever size you set it to. Above and below it goes whatever you type: the venue name, "Scan for the menu", the wifi password. Our name appears nowhere on it.

• PNG with a sensible physical size written into the file, so it does not land half a metre wide when a word processor guesses at the pixels.
• SVG for a print shop, or for dropping into a document without it going soft at the edges.
• A single archive when you ask for more than one table.
• Highest error-correction level, which is what pays for the number sitting in the middle of the code.

Why our name is not on your sticker

Because the link is yours and we have nothing to do with what happens after the scan. Printing "Scan to order" on a code that opens a PDF would send a guest looking for an order button that is not there, and the name underneath would take the blame for an experience we do not run and cannot repair. So the label carries your name, and you write the words, which is the only way they can be true about where the code goes.

Why nothing is asked for in return

An email address is worth very little from someone who has not seen the product yet. The tool runs on your machine: the link you type is never sent anywhere, so there is nothing for us to store even if we wanted it. Close the tab and none of it survives.

A code on the table is not an ordering system

This is where a sticker stops. It opens a link. If a photograph of the menu is what sits behind it, a guest looks at that photograph and then waves at someone, exactly as before, and the only thing that changed is where the menu lives. What matters is whether the page they land on can take the order. When it can, that order reaches the waiter carrying the table and the station that cooks it, and the two walks those rounds used to cost disappear.

What changes when the link is a Klevra menu

Same stickers, different thing behind them. Guests order from the table and settle from their own phones if they want to, or ask for the bill and pay at the counter, in cash or on the card machine you already have.

• The order reaches the waiter first and the kitchen station once they approve it.
• Change a price in the catalogue and the menu shows it seconds later. The stickers stay where they are, because the code points at your menu rather than at a file.
• Each guest sees their own share already worked out and pays it.
• Allergens, nutrition and portion weight sit on the dish, filled in once.
• Your own till issues the receipt at settlement, exactly as it does today.

Getting them onto the tables

The cheap route is a sheet of A4 sticker paper and the office printer. Cut them out, stick them down, and put a clear laminate over the top if the tables live outside. If you have a thermal label printer, the file already suits it: the code is built on whole-pixel modules so the ink does not thin out at small sizes.