About GaslampWe have run restaurants. We built the menu tool we wanted.
Gaslamp comes from a restaurant family. We have owned and worked in restaurants, printed menus on a Friday afternoon, crossed out prices with a marker, and watched a guest scan a QR code that opened the wrong menu. This is the software we wished we had on the floor.
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Why a restaurant family builds software
Because every menu tool we tried was built for the first day, when you design the menu, and not for the other three hundred and sixty-four, when you run it. The designers made it beautiful and left. The template sites made it fast and generic. The QR companies made a code and forgot the menu behind it.
A menu is not a document. It is a list of prices and dishes that changes, and it lives in the guest's hand, on the table, and on the phone at the same time. Gaslamp keeps one menu and puts it in all three places, and it lets the person who knows about the change make the change, from a phone, in about thirty seconds.
We are also the people who answer the mail. Questions, feature requests, and complaints go to [email protected], and a person from the family reads them.
What running restaurants taught us about menus
- 1
The menu is read more than anything else you print.
Every guest, most of them twice, in bad light, in a hurry. It deserves real typography and it deserves to be right.
- 2
It changes more than anyone plans for.
A price, a sold-out dish, a special, a new season. The menu is designed once and edited forever, and the editing is where the pain is.
- 3
The person who knows is on the floor.
The chef at the pass, the manager at the host stand, the bartender at the well. If changing the menu needs a laptop and a designer, it does not get changed.
- 4
Guests forgive a lot. Not a wrong price.
A crossed-out number, a taped-on insert, a QR code that opens last season: they notice, and they notice before they order.
The house rules
Restaurants get sold to constantly, and most of it is noise. These are the rules this site is written under.
- No fake proofWe have no invented testimonials, customer counts, or ratings on this site. When we have three restaurant stories we are allowed to tell, they will be here.
- Say what it does not doEvery product page lists its limits. No POS sync, no scheduling, no team seats. You should not find those out after paying.
- Measured, not estimatedWhen we say thirty seconds, we timed it. The numbers in our copy come from our own logs and are dated.
- One price, two plans$19 a month or $190 a year, a 30-day trial with no card, and a demo you can try with no account. No tiers to decode.
What Gaslamp is, in one course
- Eight designs, drawn for real roomspick yours
- Every menu you run, kept in Gaslampbrunch to bar
- A hosted mobile menutext, not a PDF
- One QR code per menunever reprinted
- A print-ready PDFsame edit
- Every change, from your phoneabout 30 seconds
Built in San Francisco. How it works, start to finish.
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