Diet & lifestyle tags
Vegetarian, vegan, non-vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, halal, kosher, organic.
Features
Every detail a hospitality team actually needs
Carte ships with the rich menu data model, the guest presentations and the operational tooling restaurants ask for — out of the box.
The menu
Items, categories & metadata
The richest menu data model in the category — built so guests get every answer they need without asking the host.
EU-14 allergens
Checklist for all 14 declarable allergens — gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soy, dairy, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphites, lupin, molluscs.
Spice level
Mild, warm, hot, fiery — rendered as flame icons on the guest menu.
Ingredients & calories
Tag-style ingredient chips and per-dish calorie display, opt-in by category.
Chef's special
Pin signature dishes with a chef badge, separate from regular featured items.
Inline category creation
Add a category from the item form — no context switch, no broken muscle memory.
Guest experience
Beautiful, fast, configurable
Four hand-crafted presentations with their own typography, palettes and ornaments. Switch in one click — preview live before publishing.
Editorial layout
Magazine-style centered headings, dotted-leader prices, italic descriptions — the printed-menu feel, on glass.
Classic print
Two-column dense layout that reads like a laminated bistro card. Perfect for casual venues.
Showcase
Edge-to-edge photography for venues where every dish is a moment.
Boutique bistro
Hand-drawn ornaments, warm palette and refined serif type — for neighborhood-favorite vibes.
Palette presets
Ivory, linen, midnight, slate, terracotta, forest — each tuned for legibility in light and dim dining rooms.
Live preview
Every change shows in a side-by-side preview before you publish to guests.
Operations
Built for the brigade
Multi-user with proper roles, an audit log of every change, and promotions you can schedule weeks ahead.
Roles & SSO
ADMIN, MANAGER, STAFF — backed by Keycloak SSO. Invite the brigade without giving away the keys.
Audit log
Every create, update and delete recorded with actor, timestamp and diff. Investigate without guessing.
Scheduled promotions
Percent-off or fixed discounts on categories or items, with start and end dates. Banners appear automatically.
Dashboard overview
Item, category, promotion and recent-activity counts at a glance.
Drafts & visibility
Hide an item without deleting it — for sold-out specials or seasonal pauses.
Bilingual UI
Admin and guest surfaces ship in English and French; add languages with one JSON file.
Platform
Multi-tenant from day one
Built on PostgreSQL, Prisma and Next.js — designed for chains, restaurant groups and platform operators.
Tenant isolation
Strict tenant boundaries enforced at the data layer. Every query scoped automatically.
OIDC + Oathkeeper
Secured by Ory Hydra, Kratos and Oathkeeper — production identity, not a side project.
SEO & schema.org
Restaurant + Menu structured data on every page. Discoverable by Google, Bing, Apple Maps.
Edge-cached
Server-rendered, CDN-cached. P75 mobile load under one second.
S3 image pipeline
Direct-to-S3 presigned uploads, CloudFront delivery, automatic responsive sizes.
Search & filters
Built-in search across items and categories on the guest menu, with diet filters.
Comparison
Why teams switch to Carte
| Capability | PDF / printed | Generic builder | Carte |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update without re-printing | Reprint required | Yes, manually | Live, instant |
| Dietary tags & allergens | Hand-typed | Limited fields | Full EU-14 + 9 diet tags |
| Photos per dish | None | 1 image | Up to 6, CDN-delivered |
| Bilingual menu | Two PDFs | Add-on | Built in |
| Promotions / happy hours | Sticker on the page | Coupon plugin | Scheduled with banners |
| Audit & roles | — | Basic | Roles + full audit log |
| SEO structured data | — | Generic | Restaurant + Menu schema |
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