Choose the right menu surface

BevWerk publishes to four menu surfaces, and they are not four copies of the same thing. Each one answers a different question about where a guest is standing when they read it.

The four surfaces

Bar Menu

/menus/bar — the working view for behind the bar. This is the one your staff reads, so it is organized for the person pouring rather than the person choosing.

Digital Menu

/menus/digital — the screen a guest looks up at. Digital menus can rotate through categories and taplists, which matters when you pour more beers than fit legibly on one screen.

Paper Menu

/menus/paper — the printable version, generated from the same taplist rather than retyped. Paper is the surface most likely to go stale, so producing it from live data is the whole point.

Website Menu

/menus/website — what appears on your public site. This one leaves your building entirely, which makes it the surface where an out-of-date beer is most visible and least forgivable.

Why one beverage feeds four menus

Every surface draws on the same beverages, Taps & Taplists, and Menu Categories. Change a beer once and the change reaches all four, because the alternative — maintaining four lists by hand — is how a taproom ends up serving something the website says is gone.

This is also why the surfaces are separate pages rather than one page with a format switch. A rotation setting that makes sense on a screen is meaningless on paper, and a layout tuned for staff is wrong for guests.

Choosing between them

If you want to…	Use
Give staff a working reference	Bar Menu
Fill a screen above the taps	Digital Menu
Hand a guest something printed	Paper Menu
Show what is pouring to people not yet in the room	Website Menu

Most operators end up using more than one. They are not alternatives so much as audiences.

What to do next

• Get the underlying setup right first in Manage operational settings.
• When you are ready to make changes visible, read Publish your menu.