Mobal offers powerful add-ons to help you get even more out of your account. One of these add-ons is Menus, which makes it easier to manage and update your menus across platforms quickly and consistently.
What You Can Do with Menu Manager
Build and update menus quickly
Sync updates across all connected platforms automatically
Ensure your menu information is always accurate and consistent
How to Enable Menu Manager
To start using Menu Manager or to learn about pricing for your account, you can:
✅ Talk to your Customer Success Manager (CSM): They’ll guide you through features, pricing, and activation.
✅ Chat with our support team: Use the chat bubble in your dashboard or on our website and ask to speak with someone directly.
Menu Manager at a glance
Once Menu Manager is enabled, you’ll find a Menus page in your Mobal dashboard. It’s organised into two tabs:
Items — your library of reusable menu items (a starter, a main, a drink). The same item can appear on as many menus as you like.
Food menu — the actual menus you publish (e.g. Lunch, Dinner, Weekend Brunch). A menu is made up of sections (like Starters, Mains, Desserts) that contain your items.
Each menu can be linked to one or more Business Profiles, so the same menu can be published to several locations at once.
[screenshot: Menu Manager landing page with the Items / Food menu tabs visible]
How to create a menu
There are two ways to create a menu: upload an existing menu file and let Mobal extract the items for you, or build one from scratch.
Option 1 — Upload an existing menu (recommended for your first menu)
Go to Menus in the left-hand navigation.
Click Upload menu in the top right.
Drag and drop your menu files into the upload area, or click Choose your menu files to upload. Supported formats: .pdf, .docx, .png, .jpeg.
Mobal will process the files and extract items automatically. This takes a moment — you’ll see Processing items while it runs.
Review the items Mobal extracted. Fix any names, prices, descriptions, or section assignments that didn’t come through cleanly, then continue.
Build your menu — drag items into sections, rename sections, and arrange the order. When you’re happy, save.
[screenshot: drag-and-drop upload area with the three-step stepper (Upload File → Review Items & Import → Build menu)]
Option 2 — Create a menu from scratch
Go to Menus in the left-hand navigation.
Open the Food menu tab and click Upload menu, then choose Create menu from scratch instead at the bottom of the upload screen. (If you have no menus yet, you’ll see this option directly on the empty state.)
You’ll land on the Create new menu page.
Give your menu a title (e.g. Lunch menu, Dinner menu).
In the Menu settings panel on the right:
Linked Business profiles — pick which locations this menu should appear on. You can link several menus to each profile.
Currency — the chosen currency applies to every item in this menu.
Click Add New Section, enter a section title (e.g. Starters), and add it.
Inside a section, click Add New Item to create a new item, or drag an existing one in from the Template Items list on the right.
For each item, fill in Item name, Description, Price, and optionally Allergens, Dietary options, Cuisines, and an image.
When you’re done, click Save in the top right.
[screenshot: Create new menu page showing the menu title, sections with items, and the Menu settings panel on the right]
How to edit a menu
From the Food menu tab you can:
Search for a menu using the Find menu field.
Open a menu for editing by clicking its name or the pencil icon at the end of the row.
Clone a menu using the copy icon — useful for creating a seasonal variant without starting over.
Delete a menu using the trash icon. Deleting a menu removes it from every linked Business Profile, but your Template items will not be deleted — they stay in the Items tab for reuse.
Inside the menu editor you can
Rename the menu by editing the title at the top.
Reorder sections and items by grabbing the drag handle on the left of the row.
Rename a section directly in the section header, or click the pencil icon to open the full section editor.
Edit an item (price, description, allergens, image, dietary options) by clicking it.
Delete a section or item with the red trash icon. Deleting a section also removes the items in that section from this menu (but the underlying template items stay available).
Update Linked Business profiles or Currency at any time from the Menu settings panel.
Add another language with the language selector at the top of the page — Mobal can translate your menu so the same menu is published in every language you support.
Click Save when you’re done. Your changes sync automatically to the linked profiles.
[screenshot: menu editor with the drag handles, pencil icons, and language selector highlighted]
Managing items separately (Items tab)
The Items tab is your central library. Items here can be reused across multiple menus, and any change you make flows through to every menu that uses the item.
Click New Item to create a reusable item without attaching it to a menu yet.
Select one or more items (checkboxes on the left) and click Edit to bulk update Allergens, Dietary options, or Cuisines — great for tagging a whole range of vegetarian or gluten-free items at once.
Use the bulk Delete button to remove multiple items at once. Deleting an item removes it from every menu it’s used in, so use this carefully.
Clone an item (copy icon) when you want a near-duplicate — e.g. a large and small version of the same dish.
[screenshot: Items tab with the bulk-select checkboxes and Edit / Delete buttons visible]
Tips & best practices
Build the Items library first. If you have a lot of dishes, upload your existing menu(s) once so Mobal extracts the items. After that, building or duplicating menus from those items is much faster than re-typing everything.
Use separate menus for separate occasions. Lunch, dinner, brunch, seasonal — each gets its own menu. That way you can publish or unpublish a whole menu at once instead of toggling individual items.
Use sections to group, not to hide. Sections (Starters, Mains, Desserts) make a menu easy to scan on Google. Long, un-sectioned lists hurt readability.
Clone instead of starting over. If you’re creating a similar menu for a sister location or for a seasonal variation, clone the existing menu and tweak it — you keep the structure and the linked items intact.
Edit items in the Items tab when the change should be everywhere. Updating a price or description from the Items tab updates that item on every menu it appears on. Edit inside a specific menu only when you want a one-off change for that menu’s context.
Tag allergens and dietary options. Guests increasingly filter by dietary needs — filling in Allergens, Dietary options, and Cuisines makes your menu more discoverable and more useful.
Keep names short and consistent. Use the same naming style across menus (e.g. always “Margherita Pizza”, not sometimes “Pizza Margherita”). Item names are searchable in the Items tab, so consistency makes them easier to find.
Link each menu to the right profiles. Always double-check Linked Business profiles in the Menu settings panel — especially after creating a new location — so the right menu reaches the right place.
Translate, don’t duplicate. If you serve guests in multiple languages, use the language selector inside a menu to add translations rather than creating separate menus per language.
Permissions matter. Only teammates with the Location details — update permission can upload, edit, or delete menus. If a colleague can’t see the buttons, their role likely needs adjusting.
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