One QR code for a list that changes every week. Every pour carries the name of who made it and a link to their shop, not yours.
Guests score what they taste and keep it. You get ratings with the producer attached — evidence to bring the makers you pour.
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A maker rotates out on Tuesday, a case blows halfway through Saturday, and something new arrives that nobody has tasted yet. A printed list is a snapshot of a room that no longer exists, and the staff spend the shift apologising for it.
A single estate can train one story into every pourer. A room pouring a dozen makers cannot, so the sheet has to do the explaining — and the sheet is six point type in a dim room.
They tell a friend about “the place on Fourth”, not about the producer whose bottle they actually loved. That is a lost sale for the maker and a weaker room for you, because the thing that would bring them back is the specific pour they cannot name.
One buy link at the bottom of a page serves none of them. The guest who wants that one cider has to find the maker, find the shop, and remember which of the eight things they tried it was.
You can tell a maker their bottle sold well. You cannot tell them it out-rated everything else on the list for six weeks running — which is the conversation that gets you better allocation next season.
They cannot remember the name, the maker, or how it was spelled. The room was dark, the label was in another language, and the sheet went in a coat pocket.
Edit the menu and it is live. Pull the keg that blew, add the maker who arrived this morning, run a different list Friday than Sunday. The QR code on the table never changes, so nothing you have already printed goes stale.
Producer is a field on the pour, not an afterthought in the description. The guest sees the maker on the card while the glass is in front of them, which is the only moment they will ever connect the two.
Each pour gets its own link, so the cider goes to the cidery’s shop and the gin goes to the distillery’s. You are not choosing which producer gets the one button, and no maker is asking you why they are not it.
Your dashboard shows the average score for every pour with its maker beside it, and you can search by producer. That is a real number to open a conversation with — how their pour actually rated in your room, across everyone who tasted it, not one loud opinion at the bar.
They save the flight to a free journal and it keeps your branding, the producer on every pour, and each maker’s purchase link — frozen as it was the night they were in. Weeks later they can find the one they liked and buy it, from a page with your name at the top.
A guest points their camera at the QR code on the table or the bar. The menu opens in their browser — no app, no download, no account to start.
They score each pour from 1 to 10 in half-point steps as it is poured, on your branded menu with your banner at the top.
They add whatever they want to remember, next to the pour and the producer who made it.
They save the flight to a free journal with an email link. The saved copy keeps every maker’s name and every maker’s purchase link exactly as they were that night.
Later, from the journal, they tap through to the right producer’s shop for the specific thing they liked — instead of trying to reconstruct it from memory.
Most rooms are not comparing two apps. They are comparing a printed list, the chalkboard, whatever their POS puts on a screen, and a PDF behind a QR code.
| Capability | Printed list | Chalkboard | POS menu | PDF via QR | TasteFlights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change the lineup mid-shift | No | Yes | Yes | Re-export | Yes |
| Names the producer on every pour | Yes | If it fits | Varies | Yes | Yes |
| A different purchase link per producer | No | No | No | One per page | Yes |
| Guest scores each pour as they taste | By hand | No | No | No | Yes |
| Guest still has it a month later | If they kept it | No | No | No | Yes |
| Ratings labelled by producer | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Readable in a dim room, one-handed | Small type | Across the room | Varies | Pinch to zoom | Yes |
| Rings up the sale | No | No | Yes | No | No |
TasteFlights does not ring up the sale and is not trying to replace your POS. It sits alongside it and owns the part your POS has no opinion about — what the guest thought, and whether they can find it again.
Yes. The purchase link is a property of the pour, not of the menu, so every producer on your list points at their own shop, club, or mailing list.
That also means the click data comes back per pour, so you can see which maker’s link people actually followed.
Yes. Producer is its own field on every pour, alongside the name, style, vintage or batch, and ABV, and it appears on the card the guest is looking at while the glass is in front of them.
You can also search and filter your own inventory by producer, which matters once the list is long enough that names blur.
It is the case this is built for. Editing a menu takes seconds and the change is live immediately — no reprint, no re-export, no new QR code.
The QR code belongs to the menu, not to its contents, so the card on the table stays correct no matter how many times the lineup turns over.
You can see it yourself: your dashboard lists every pour with its average score and its producer beside it, searchable by producer, across everyone who saved a tasting.
To be straight about the limit — there is no producer login and no export button today. Sharing the number means telling them, or showing them your screen. If that turns into a real need, it is worth asking for.
No. The QR code opens a web page in whatever browser is already on the phone, and no account is needed to start rating.
An account is only required to save a flight, and that is a free email sign-in with no password. There is an optional iPhone app for guests who want their journal on the home screen.
No, and that is deliberate. You see aggregate numbers — average score per pour, scans, saves, and link clicks. You never see an individual guest’s notes or their identity next to a rating.
That line is what makes guests willing to write something honest, which is what makes the averages worth anything.
Partly, and it is worth knowing before you commit. The menu is a web page, so the first load needs a working connection — no signal and no guest wifi means the QR code will not open.
After that first load the page caches, and once a guest has saved a flight the iPhone app keeps their journal readable offline and syncs changes when they reconnect. If coverage is genuinely dead at the bar, guest wifi is the fix.
The free plan is free permanently, with no card: two menus, twenty-five pours, manual and spreadsheet entry, your own banner, the full style picker, and full analytics.
Pro is $19.99 a month with a 14-day trial and adds AI label scanning, AI document extraction, AI banner generation, unlimited menus and pours, opt-in follow-up emails, and up to five staff seats. If a trial lapses the account drops to free — your menus stay live and your QR codes keep working.
Build your first menu in an afternoon, print one card for the bar, and stop reprinting every time the lineup turns over.
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