As of 13 August 2026, AI can design a menu for your UK food business.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current menu, price list, recipes and ingredient records, then gather your confirmed allergen matrix and dietary information.
   2. Collect your brand colours, typefaces, logo, menu size, service format, kitchen constraints and the customer groups you want to attract.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot and attaching existing menu or brand files where the chatbot allows it.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the menu structure, draft copy, visual direction and fact-check table in one response.
   5. Compare every item, price, ingredient and allergen claim in the fact-check table against your current records, and correct every CHECK REQUIRED entry before design work starts.
   6. Paste the approved text and visual direction into a design tool such as Simplified, or send it to your designer, then compare the finished layout against the approved wording and price list before publishing.

   Prompt

   Design a clear, commercially useful menu for my UK food business using only the information I provide below.
   
   Business type: [restaurant, cafe, takeaway, pub, street-food business or other]
   Cuisine and concept: [describe]
   Target customers: [describe]
   Service format: [dine-in, takeaway, delivery, counter service or other]
   Opening hours and busiest periods: [describe]
   Kitchen and service constraints: [describe]
   Current menu items and prices: [paste]
   Recipes or ingredient lists: [paste]
   Allergen matrix or confirmed allergen information: [paste]
   Dietary options and substitutions: [paste]
   Brand voice: [describe]
   Brand colours, typefaces and existing visual assets: [describe or attach]
   Desired menu size and format: [printed menu, board, website, delivery platform or other]
   Commercial priorities: [for example, margin, speed of service, upselling or simplicity]
   
   Produce:
   1. A recommended menu structure with sections in the proposed order.
   2. A draft menu with concise item names, descriptions and the exact prices supplied above.
   3. Suggested add-ons, swaps or bundles, but do not invent prices or ingredients.
   4. A visual direction covering hierarchy, spacing, colour use, imagery and typography.
   5. A plain-text version suitable for handing to a designer or pasting into a design tool.
   6. A fact-check table listing every item, price and allergen claim so I can compare it with my records.
   
   Do not invent dishes, ingredients, prices, awards, nutritional claims, provenance claims or allergen information. Do not infer that an item is suitable for a dietary requirement from its name. Mark missing or contradictory information as CHECK REQUIRED. Keep the language natural for a UK food business, avoid inflated claims, and explain any recommendation that changes the current menu.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.