ಕನ್ನಡ · Kannada
A QR menu your customers can read in ಕನ್ನಡ
When restaurant software says it “supports Kannada”, it almost always means the billing screen your cashier looks at. Fooduru puts Kannada on the other side of the counter — the menu the diner opens on their own phone. Included in the ₹599 a month plan, not sold as a language pack.
One tap, and the whole menu changes
Each dish holds two names, not one string run through a translator at page load. That matters because dish names are the words machine translation is worst at — khara bath, bisi bele bath, kesari bath and thatte idli come back as nonsense, or as a literal reading that a Kannada speaker would never use. So the Kannada name is stored with the dish, drafted for you, and corrected by you.
There is one QR code and one link. The customer's choice carries through the cart, the payment step, the live order tracking and the token — you do not print a second standee for a second language.
Where the Kannada appears
| Screen | What is in ಕನ್ನಡ |
|---|---|
| The QR menu | Every dish name, every category, in ಕನ್ನಡ — one tap to switch. |
| The cart & checkout | Quantities, totals and the UPI step stay in the chosen language. |
| Order tracking | Preparing / Ready and the collection prompt follow the customer. |
| The cashier screen | Switchable per device, so your counter staff can work in Kannada. |
| Voice ordering | Spoken ಕನ್ನಡ orders — a paid add-on, quoted on usage. |
Why bother, commercially
The honest answer is that we do not have a controlled study, and you should distrust any vendor who quotes you a conversion uplift for this. What we can say plainly: a QR menu replaces a person who would otherwise explain the menu, and it only replaces that person for customers who can read it. In a Bengaluru neighbourhood where a meaningful share of walk-ins are more comfortable in Kannada than English, an English-only QR menu quietly sends those customers back to the counter queue you were trying to shorten — which is the entire point of putting the QR code there.
Pair it with the voice add-on and a customer who would rather not read at all can simply say what they want.
Common questions
- Can a restaurant QR menu be shown in Kannada?
- Yes. With Fooduru every dish stores its own Kannada name alongside its English one, and the customer switches the entire menu between English and ಕನ್ನಡ with a single tap on their phone — no app, no browser translation, no separate QR code or link for each language. Category names, the cart, the order-tracking screen and the pickup token all follow the same choice. It is part of the ₹599 per month equivalent base plan, billed quarterly, rather than a paid extra.
- How is this different from the Kannada support other restaurant POS software offers?
- Almost all of it localises the staff-facing billing screen — the cashier sees Kannada, the customer still sees English. Fooduru's Kannada is on the customer's side of the counter: the QR menu a diner opens on their own phone. Both are useful and they solve different problems, so the question to ask a vendor is simply which screen their Kannada appears on. Fooduru also lets the cashier screen be switched to Kannada independently, per device, so a counter in a Kannada-speaking neighbourhood can run entirely in ಕನ್ನಡ on both sides.
- Do I have to type every dish name in Kannada myself?
- No. When your menu is set up we generate a Kannada draft for every item — either from a photograph of your existing printed menu, or by transliterating the English names — and you review and correct it before it goes live. You can edit any dish's Kannada name at any time from the menu editor, and the correction appears on the customer's phone immediately. Machine transliteration gets common dish names right and colloquial ones wrong, which is exactly why it is a draft for you to approve rather than something published automatically.
- Can customers order by speaking Kannada instead of reading?
- Yes, as a paid add-on. The customer holds the mic button and says the order aloud in ಕನ್ನಡ, English or हिंदी; speech recognition is by Sarvam AI, and the transcript is matched against your actual menu by a deterministic matcher with no large language model in the path — so a dish you do not sell cannot end up in the cart. Spoken quantities are understood in all three languages. Voice is billed on usage and so is quoted for your order volume rather than listed at a flat rate.
- Does the printed bill come out in Kannada too?
- The customer's on-screen bill and downloadable bill follow the language they chose. Thermal-printed receipts depend on your printer: most inexpensive ESC/POS thermal printers sold in India can only render Latin characters in their built-in font, so Kannada script may print as blank boxes on hardware that has no Kannada font. Tell us which printer you have and we will test it before you rely on it.
- Which other Indian languages are supported?
- Today the menu is English and ಕನ್ನಡ, and voice additionally understands हिंदी. Other Indian languages are not yet available. We would rather say that plainly than list languages we have not tested with real diners.
Last updated 25/08/2026. Made in Bengaluru by Antarya Technologies.