Get an online menu in Ibirité: publish it and take orders with no commission

Before publishing: what a restaurant owner in Ibirité should decide

Anyone searching for an online menu in Ibirité, in Minas Gerais, wants to solve a practical question: how to put the menu on the customer's phone without losing control of the sale. This text is for people who run a restaurant, snack bar, bakery or kitchen in the city and need to decide how to publish the menu, where customers will access it and what happens to each order after it is sent. Plan prices are not part of the information available, so no prices appear here.

Ibirité has about 180 thousand inhabitants, according to the IBGE estimate for 2025. In October 2026, the federal business registry listed 1,402 active restaurants, snack bars and similar establishments in the municipality. With so many options, what sets a business apart is a clear menu and an easy way to order, and that depends on decisions that stay with the owner.

What it means to have your own menu

An online menu of your own is one where you write the items, set the prices and receive orders directly. On this platform, the restaurant publishes the menu once and receives table, counter and delivery orders in the same dashboard, keeping the entire sale.

The platform charges no commission on the restaurant's sales. The order total is the sum of the menu items plus the delivery fee that the restaurant itself sets. Price and fee are your choices, and there is no third portion between what the customer pays and what the business receives.

Building the menu with artificial intelligence support

The most laborious part is usually writing and organizing everything. An artificial intelligence assistant helps build the menu by suggesting categories and descriptions. It speeds up the start, but the review is yours: ingredients, prices and availability need to be checked before publishing.

• Use the name the customer recognizes: the same one used to order the dish at the counter.
• Describe it in a few lines: what comes with it and what can be swapped.
• Follow the order of the meal: starters, mains, desserts and drinks.
• Watch limited items: daily specials are the ones that run out most often.

How customers reach the menu

A single QR code serves the whole store. Customers point their phone camera at it, open the online menu in the browser without installing an app, and sign in with WhatsApp. Through that same access, they place their order, call the waiter and ask for the bill.

A simple test: sit at a table as if you were a new customer and check whether the QR code is visible without anyone having to explain it. Repeat it in the counter line. If you have to ask where it is, it is poorly placed.

The order's path through the kitchen

A beautiful menu is no use if the order reaches the kitchen in a jumble. Here, each station sees only its own orders, in the right sequence. Whoever works the griddle does not read what belongs to the bar, and table orders do not mix with delivery orders at the counter.

When an item runs out, it disappears from the menu on its own. Customers do not choose what the kitchen cannot deliver, and the staff avoid going back to the table to apologize. Before configuring, note how many stations your kitchen actually has: the system should follow the division you already use.

Ibirité and the region: the same feature carries different weight

Ibirité is 9.1 km from Sarzedo, 10.1 km from Contagem and 14.1 km from Mário Campos. Betim is 15.8 km away and Belo Horizonte, the state capital and a separate city, is 16.9 km away. Brumadinho, Nova Lima and São Joaquim de Bicas are between 20 and 22.7 km away. These distances only place the municipality on the map: they do not indicate a delivery area or system coverage, since each restaurant sets its own fee and its own reach.

What changes within the city is the profile of each business:

• Sit-down restaurant: the QR code with waiter call and bill request eases the load on the staff during busy hours.
• Snack bar and bakery: counter and delivery share the same panel, and a sold-out item vanishes from the menu without any verbal notice.
• Delivery-focused kitchen: the gain lies in the fee you set yourself and in the preparation order by station.

A roadmap for putting your online menu live

You don't need to change everything at once. A reasonable sequence:

1. Write down how table, counter and delivery orders come in today, and where information gets lost.
2. Build the menu with the assistant and review each item.
3. Set the delivery fee and the area your business can realistically serve.
4. Configure the kitchen stations.
5. Keep the QR code visible on the tables and at the counter, and explain the flow to your team.
6. Turn on the WhatsApp alerts and, for a few days, compare the daily summary with your own notes.
7. Place one table order, one counter order and one delivery order to confirm that each reached the right station.

Keep track of the day without being tied to the register

A daily summary shows your restaurant's numbers, and alerts arrive on WhatsApp, an app the owner already uses all day. Use this information for small, frequent decisions, such as peak hours and staff scheduling, without depending on spreadsheets.

If your restaurant, snack bar or bakery in Ibirité wants its own online menu, with table, counter and delivery orders in a single dashboard and no commission on sales, learn about the service on the home page and decide with your team whether it fits your routine. You can also go back to the city page to review the features at your own pace.