Digital menus for venues as your side business
For photographers, designers, agencies and anyone who already works with hospitality businesses. The venue owner adds you as an editor, you take care of the menu, and you bill for your work yourself.
Menu editors
Who this work is for
A venue needs someone to build the menu, photograph it and keep it up to date. Owners rarely have time for that.
- Photographers
You already photograph food for venues. Now your photos also reach the guest, next to every dish on the menu.
- Designers and agencies
The menu gets the venue's colors and fonts, and you offer it along with the logo, social media and print.
- Companies and individuals
Suppliers, accountants, former venue managers. Anyone who knows the hospitality businesses in their town.
Food photos
Look and marketing
Working with hospitality
How access works
The owner adds you in seconds
You work in the client's venue from your own account. No shared passwords.
- Added by email.
- The owner enters your email on the Editors page and you get access to the venue's menus right away.
- Or you reach out.
- Send a request with the venue's menu link and a short note on who you are and what you offer.
- The owner stays the owner.
- Only the owner manages the subscription, deletes the venue or changes the editor list, and can remove you at any time.
For editors
All venues in one account
The Venues page lists your own venues and the ones you edit for clients.
- Editor role in one click.
- In your profile, check “I also edit other people's places”. You can still run your own venues too.
- A request with a message.
- Enter the venue's menu link and introduce yourself. The owner gets an email and accepts the request.
- Ending the work is simple.
- Leave the venue with one click. The menu, photos and translations stay with the venue.
Example price list for your services
Example prices for a smaller town, as a starting point. You set your own prices, and IzeshMenu takes no commission.
| Service | Example price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Menu setup | Example price: $250 one-time | What's included: Adding items with AI import, categories, prices, allergens, theme and QR code |
| Food photography | Example price: $25 per photo | What's included: Shooting at the venue, editing and adding a photo to each item |
| Menu translation | Example price: $60 per language | What's included: AI translation, then your check of dish names and descriptions |
| Monthly maintenance | Example price: $49 per month | What's included: New prices, seasonal items, daily specials and new photos as agreed |
| QR table stands | Example price: by agreement | What's included: Design and printing of stands or stickers with the QR code |
Example full package for a client
A cafe with 40 items, first year. You offer the venue one price for everything, and the venue pays its plan from its own account. With five venues on maintenance, that is $245 of steady monthly income, on top of one-time jobs.
| Item | Amount | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| IzeshMenu annual plan | Amount: see Pricing | Goes to: IzeshMenu, paid by the venue |
| Menu setup | Amount: $250 | Goes to: You |
| 20 food photos | Amount: $500 | Goes to: You |
| Spanish translation | Amount: $60 | Goes to: You |
| 12 months of maintenance | Amount: $588 | Goes to: You |
| Total for your services | Amount: $1,398 | Goes to: You (the plan is paid separately) |
From the pitch to the menu on the table
How to offer the package
Five steps, from the first conversation to monthly maintenance.
- 1. Show an example
- Open the example menu on your phone, or a menu you have already made.
- 2. Agree on a package
- One price for setup, photos and translation, plus monthly maintenance.
- 3. The client opens the venue
- The owner creates an account, adds the venue and starts the plan, then adds you as an editor.
- 4. You set up the menu
- Import from a photo of the printed menu, food photos, translations, a theme in the venue's colors.
- 5. You keep it up to date
- A new price or seasonal dish reaches guests right away, with no reprinting.
Offer your first menu this week.
Create an account, turn on the editor role in your profile and reach out to the venues you already work with.
Questions from editors
No. The subscription belongs to the venue and the owner pays it. You only need an account with the editor role turned on.
No. You agree on the price and payment directly with the venue.
As many as owners add you to. All of them are on the Venues page, next to your own.
No. AI menu import uses the quota of the venue you are working on.
The owner removes you on the Editors page, or you leave the venue. The menu, photos and translations stay with the venue.
Yes. IzeshMenu support transfers ownership on request, as long as the venue has no active subscription.