The cost of paper isn't the paper
A typical café reprints its menu several times a year — for price changes, new items, wear and tear, and seasonal swaps. Each reprint carries design tweaks, printing, and lamination. Spread across a year, that's a recurring line item most owners never track.
Then add the invisible costs: a customer who orders a sold-out dish, a wrong price you have to honor, a new special nobody knew about because it wasn't on the printed sheet yet.
What a digital menu replaces
A QR menu collapses all of that into one recurring, predictable cost. On Gebeta, the Starter plan is free, and paid plans start at Br. 1,000 per month — often less than a single reprint run.
Every change after that is free: update a price, mark an item out of stock, launch a special — instantly, as many times as you like.
It earns, not just saves
The savings are only half the story. A digital menu also collects reviews, shows you which items get the most attention, and (on higher plans) takes orders directly. That's information and revenue a paper menu can never give you.
Knowing your best sellers and your dead items is worth more over a year than the printing you stopped paying for.
The honest math
For most small cafés and restaurants in Ethiopia, the monthly cost of a digital menu is comfortably below what they were already spending on printing and the mistakes around it. The difference is that the digital menu also makes you money.
Start free, see it work with your own menu, and upgrade only when the value is obvious.
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