For restaurant openings

    For Restaurant Openings

    The menu is the first object a guest holds in your restaurant, and they form an opinion before they read a word of it.

    26 yrs

    The Saxon

    Day one

    Matched front of house

    1983

    Manufacturing in Johannesburg

    BEE L2

    Certified supplier

    Assume the menu will change

    Opening menus rarely survive the first season. Choosing a changeable mechanism now — screw posts or a ring binder — means the covers outlive several menus instead of being reprinted alongside them.

    Match the close to the open

    Order the bill folders with the menus, in the same hide, so the last object a guest handles matches the first.

    Start small, then scale

    Most restaurants start with an opening set and expand once service is running. Because we hold the specification, the second order matches the first — which is how relationships like the Saxon's reached 26 years.

    Common questions

    What should a new restaurant order first?+

    A matched opening set: food menu covers, the wine list and bill folders in the same hide and marking. Everything else can follow once service is running.

    Our menu will change often — what mechanism suits that?+

    Screw posts or a ring binder, so inserts are swapped in-house and the covers remain in service.

    Can we expand the set later and still match?+

    Yes. We keep the written specification, so later orders are produced to the original.

    Open with a matched set

    Tell us the covers you need, the format, and your opening date. We will specify the set and quote it.

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