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Restaurants are Turning to Our Laminated Menus

Laminated menus can be cleaned and sanitized between every use as guidelines suggest for reopening restaurants. Whether with soap and water, or with disinfectant wipes, it's easy to sanitize laminated menus for reuse. A plastic layer protects the paper underneath, so you can clean the menu repeatedly without it breaking down.

A New Era of Menu Cleaning

As restaurants reopen their dining rooms, sanitized menus are just as important as clean dishes. Menus are picked up, handled, passed around and left for the next customer, so restaurants need to ensure that no germs or pathogens are spread on the menu surface. 

Moving forward, the National Restaurant Association recommends that menus be discarded or cleaned and sanitized after each customer use. In light of this, many restaurants are turning to laminated menus because they can be easily sanitized and safely reused.

About Lamination

Safe to Reuse: The EPA has said that mild detergents and household disinfectants both work to sanitize hard surfaces. So you can safely clean your laminated menus with a warm soapy wash, or a quick wipe down with a disinfectant.

Beautiful Color-Enhancing Look: Our laminated menus look and feel professional, with trim cut edges and a sheen that helps color and photos pop.

Restaurant-Grade Durability: Thick-enough to stand up to the daily wear and tear of restaurants, but not too thick that the menus are rigid.  

Lamination Experts: With years of experience and thousands of print runs, MustHaveMenus does expert, high-quality lamination, not the kind you find at your local office store. Our lamination enhances colors, keeps crisp edges, and doesn't cloud over. 

For more information on how to clean your laminated menu, please visit our menu safety guide. Or chat any time with a member of our Customer Service team.

Best,

Jim Williams

President, MustHaveMenus

To our restaurant community:

You are not alone in fighting for your restaurant's survival! Today we bring you a major upgrade to our Coronavirus Response Kit for Restaurants. We are tuned-in to the changes sweeping the industry, and have loaded the Kit with new marketing tools for immediate use.

We've added hundreds of new templates to help restaurants take immediate steps to adapt to the crisis. This includes dozens of standard and alternative takeout menu designs, plus creative ideas to get the word out.

Communicate what matters most.

The update includes a vastly expanded social media template collection, plus in-depth social media guidelines for getting the right messages posted ASAP. Our templates and guides are based on the amazing creative output we've seen from hundreds of hard-working restaurants like yours.

Helping Hands

As always, our Customer Service team is happy to assist you with any questions you may have. Hop in a chat if you need help with your designs or would like a free takeout menu conversion.

Finally, please forward this email to any restaurant friends in need of these resources. We're in this together, and we can all lift each other up.

Stay safe,

Jim Williams

President, MustHaveMenus

P.S. Look for the Coronavirus Reponse Kit as part of your state restaurant association's coronavirus resources. If you don't see it, please let them know. Let''s make a difference!

To our restaurant community:

We know that many restaurants are facing big challenges during the increasing Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. On behalf of everyone at MustHaveMenus, we're committed to providing support to our restaurant partners as you navigate these uncertain and troubling times.

We believe there are positive steps restaurants can take. Our goal is to help you communicate to your customers everything you are doing to protect their health. We've launched a Coronavirus Response Kit for Restaurants to share best practices and offer concrete steps, including templates for key messages you may need to convey to your customers.

One major shift for restaurants may be an increase in takeout and delivery business as the public adopts social distancing and spends more time at home. In support, we are offering 20% OFF takeout printing through May, plus we will convert any dine-in menu to a takeout format for free.

Even in this time of disruption, we believe restaurants can continue to build stronger ties to their community through communication and action. Visit our Coronavirus Response Kit page to see what successful restaurants are doing to stay strong. As the virus situation evolves, we will be making frequent updates and providing even more templates for successful messaging.

If you are experiencing hardship or store closure due to Coronavirus, please contact customer support. We're here to help.

Take care,

Jim Williams
President, MustHaveMenus

Single-Use Menus

When dining rooms reopen, communal menus will be a thing of the past. Many state governments are already mandating that restaurants eliminate all shared items, starting with menus.

Moving forward, menus will need to be disposed of after each use for the safety of customers and employees. Your menu supply will need to be actively managed, same as any other part of your restaurant's inventory.

At MustHaveMenus, we print full-color, double-sided Disposable Menus at bulk volumes and affordable rates. With shipments as large as 10,000 units and next-business-day shipping, you can quickly stock your restaurant with enough Disposable Menus to last through your reopening transition.

Adapt Your Dine-In Menu 

A disposable menu may differ somewhat from your typical dine-in menu presentation, as it's limited to a single sheet. Many restaurants are trimming costs by temporarily offering a limited menu. If you have an extensive menu, try a larger paper size than usual, such as tabloid size (11" x 17"), printed double-sided. 

Need help making everything fit? Our Customer Service Team will help you adapt your current menu to a single-use design, free of charge. Just hop in a chat, and we'll get you started!

Best,

Jim Williams

President, MustHaveMenus