Why Ceres
Ceres is a monthly subscription, but not the kind that holds your content hostage. You pay for the venue, you switch on only the modules you use, and you see the price before you commit to anything.
A plan built for you
You activate the base menu and add extra modules for ordering, analytics or reservations only when your business actually needs them.
Priced per venue
Use the platform with no fees for the number of tables, the volume of orders or the customers who pass through. Your monthly subscription doesn’t change as your revenue grows.
The data is yours
Your menu is stored on your own computer and stays yours, even if you stop the subscription.
Comparison
| Ceres | Typical subscription platform | |
|---|---|---|
| One price for the whole venue, no per-table fee | Included | Not available |
| You pay only for the modules you use | Included | Not availablebundled either way |
| The first month is free, in real conditions | Included | Not available |
| Install, menu migration and training done by us | Included | Not availableyou do it from the docs |
| Menu and print files stay yours if you stop | Included | Not available |
| Printed menu and PDF in every plan | Included | Not available |
| Unlimited languages, translated automatically | Included | Partlyoften charged per language |
| We bring your menu over: photo, file, other platform | Included | Not available |
| “Goes well with” suggestions on every dish | Included | Not available |
| A second price at set hours: happy hour, lunch menu | Included | Not available |
| Real-time availability across every open menu | Included | Partlya higher tier |
| Ordering, the bill and calling a waiter from the table | Included | Partlyusually a higher tier |
| A kitchen display (KDS) | Included | Partlythrough the POS, at extra cost |
| Ingredients, food cost and supplier orders | Included | Not availablea separate product |
| Reservations, analytics and guest feedback | Included | Partlyusually charged extra |
| Happy guests sent to Google, unhappy ones only to you | Included | Not available |
A dash means the feature usually exists, but costs extra or sits in a higher tier. The comparison is with the usual model of subscription QR-menu services, and does not name any company. Check the terms of whatever solution you are considering.
On every screen
The manager works on a large screen where the whole menu is visible at once. The guest reads that same menu on their phone at the table. There are never two versions drifting apart, and there is nothing for the guest to install.
Food cost
Once every dish carries a recipe and every ingredient a pack price, the menu stops being guesswork. You see what a portion costs, what margin is left at the current price, and which two or three dishes run at a loss while looking fine in the takings. Owners who do this by hand in a spreadsheet do it twice a year. Here it happens on every change in a supplier price.
Build your plan
Start from the plan that fits and switch on only the modules you will actually use. Send us the finished configuration and you get a quote for exactly that.
Onboarding is paid once, after the trial month.
Pay for 12 months up front and onboarding is waived.
How billing works
Questions
No, these are different names for one thing: the menu of a venue, opened on a phone at the table instead of printed on paper. You will also see „QR code menu“ and „electronic menu for restaurants“. Ceres does all of it, and the paper menu comes out of the same data — for places that want both.
Yes. A bar menu is usually shorter and heavier on drinks, a café cares about speed, and a restaurant about sections and allergens. All of them are arranged from the same screen. For a hotel it works by room as well as by table. The software is one; only the modules you switch on differ.
Yes, and it is not a cut-down demo. You run your full plan in the real venue, with real guests at the tables. If after that month you decide it isn’t for you, you owe neither the subscription nor the onboarding.
The licence for your venue, published menu, the QR codes for the tables, the print layouts and the modules in your plan. On top of that come app updates and support for as long as the plan is active.
Because the work does not stop at launch. The menu keeps changing, the app keeps gaining features, the live modules are watched, and you have someone to call when something has to happen today rather than next week.
Yes, from the next month. The menu does not move and the QR codes on the tables stay the same, so nothing changes for your guests.
It stays with you. The content, the images and the print files are yours and they leave with you, with nothing to pay to get them released.
We do it, and it usually takes a few days depending on the size of the menu. We install the app, bring your existing menu across, match the design to your identity, generate the QR codes, configure the live modules and train the team.
A Windows computer for the app, and an internet connection. Guests install nothing: the menu opens in their browser straight from the QR code on the table.
No. Ceres does not issue fiscal receipts and does not replace your till. Table orders reach the staff, and payment happens the way it always has.
The menu is edited from the app on the computer at the venue. The staff app, though, is on the phone: that is where you see calls, orders and which tables are taken while you are on the floor.
Not every one. Start with the four or five ingredients that run out most often and cost the most — the meat, the fish, the spirits. A dish without a recipe simply draws nothing from stock, and everything else keeps working. Recipes get added over time, when there is a reason.
Let’s begin
Start with 1 free trial month, with no commitment. We load your first menu, generate working QR codes for the venue and give you full access to the software, so you can see the benefits for your business before you pay anything at all.
