# Menu Reprint Cost Calculator — What Printing Menus Costs a Year

> Work out what reprinting your restaurant menu costs each year, what drives reprints, and how to keep paper while changing less of it.

Canonical: https://www.aftertaste.ai/menu-reprint-cost
Last updated: 2026-10-31

Every price change, seasonal dish and typo sends a printed menu back to the printer. Enter your own numbers below to see what that adds up to in a year.

Yearly print spend = copies per print run × cost per copy × print runs per year. Example: 40 copies × $4 × 4 runs = $640 a year. Aftertaste costs $336 a year ($28 a month, per two menus) and the menu changes without a reprint.

## What sends a menu back to the printer

- Price changes when supplier costs move.
- Seasonal and limited-time dishes coming on and off.
- Dishes you drop for good, which otherwise stay on the menu and disappoint guests.
- Corrections: a wrong price, a missing allergen note, a typo.
- Wear: stained, torn and sticky menus that guests notice.

## Costs a per-copy price leaves out

- Design time, yours or a designer’s, for every revision.
- Weeks of crossed-out prices and stickers while you wait for the next run.
- Dishes you can’t sell because the menu is out of date.
- Leftover copies of the old version that go in the bin.

## Keep paper, change less of it

You don’t have to give up printed menus. Many restaurants keep a short printed menu or table card with a QR code that opens the full photo menu. The paper rarely changes. The details that do change live online, where an update takes seconds.

**Stop paying to reprint** Leave your email and we will build your photo menu for you, ready to put behind a QR code. Contact: hey@aftertaste.ai

Related: [A digital menu with a picture of every dish](https://www.aftertaste.ai/digital-menu-with-pictures), [How to photograph food for your menu](https://www.aftertaste.ai/food-photography-for-menus)

## Related

- [Pricing](https://www.aftertaste.ai/pricing)
- [See a live digital menu](https://www.aftertaste.ai/digital-menu)