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Curry and bunny chow menu maker

A menu for a curry house, a bunny chow takeaway or a home kitchen that cooks curry: bunnies with a quarter and a half price, curries and breyani, rotis and sides. It opens warm and dark, with gold prices.

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See how it works

What you type stays on your phone. We only see it if you press "Send these to us on WhatsApp" or "Send them by email form" further down. It is kept on this phone, so it is here when you come back.

  • Curry house look, tall shape
  • Kasi look in red, tall shape
  • Dark and serif look in wine, tall shape
  • Curry house look in brown and saffron, A4 to print
  • Curry house look in green and gold, square
  • Menu board in black and gold, A5 to print

Made-up places. Prices are examples, not a guide to charge.

How it works

  1. Type your place and your curries.

    Example. A phone showing the step "What do you sell?" for Priya's Curry Den: a line and its price being typed, and the menu beside them with the lines typed so far.

  2. Pick how it looks.

    Example. A phone showing the step "Pick how it looks": the menu for Priya's Curry Den on the left and the same words in other looks on the right, one of them chosen.

  3. Change the colours, if you like.

    Example. A phone showing the same step with "More colours" open and another colour chosen: the menu for Priya's Curry Den is in that colour.

  4. Share it on WhatsApp, or print it.

    Example. The finished menu for Priya's Curry Den filling a phone screen, and the same picture printed on a page stuck to a wall.

The pictures show examples with made-up places and prices.

Run a weekly deal? Put it on a free page people can open.

Listing is free. Nothing goes on the page until you have checked it and published it.

We put weekly deals on a page, not whole menus: a special with its price and the days it runs. If you run one, you can send it to us, and where we can check the place is yours we set it up for you to check and publish.

To make sure it is really your place, we set it up with the email address your place shows publicly, on its website, Google or Facebook. If it shows no email, we phone the number it lists and ask you to confirm by email. A phone call alone is not enough. So we can only set up a page when we can check the place is yours from something it already shows publicly. If your place has nothing online yet, we cannot set one up from here, and the poster maker stays free to use. If you message us on WhatsApp, message from the number your place shows publicly.

Add your place name and an item to send them to us.

WhatsApp opens with your message ready, and the form opens filled in. Nothing is sent until you press send. See an example page

You get a picture to post, and a bigger one to print on a normal printer page (A4) or half a page (A5), not a Word file. Free, no account, and nothing is uploaded: the picture is made on your device.

What goes on a curry and bunny chow menu

1Bunnies by the loaf
A bunny chow is curry in a hollowed loaf, sold by how much of the loaf you get: a quarter, a half or a full. Under All options, tick "Two prices on each line, like Small and Large" for the bunny section and name the two prices Quarter and Half. A full loaf, if you sell it, gets a line of its own.
2The filling names the dish
List bunnies and curries by what is in them: beans, chicken, mutton, lamb, prawn. Go from the beans bunny up to mutton, so the prices climb down the list. Write "bunny" or "bunny chow", whichever is on your wall now.
3Curry with rice or roti
A plate of curry needs its side said once. Name the section "Curry and rice", or "Curries, with rice or roti", and each line can then be just the curry. A section name is the place for anything true of every line under it.
4Breyani on its own
Breyani, or biryani, is a dish of its own and gets its own short section. Spell it the way your customers do. If it is cooked on certain days only, say the days in the section name: "Breyani, Fri and Sat".
5Mild, medium or hot
Heat is a choice the customer makes at the counter. The form has no heat tick, so say it once in the box for where you are and when you are open, as the example does, and not on every line.
6Rotis, naan, samoosas and sambals
Breads and small things go last, one price each, with a count where it matters: "Samoosas (3)". Sambals or pickles that cost extra get a line; ones that come free need none.
7Cooking to order, and order-by times
A home kitchen that cooks one curry on a Friday needs an order deadline. The form has no date or deadline box. Write it in words in the same box as your hours, "Order by Thurs 3pm", and check there is room in its two rows.
8Halaal, vegetarian and other claims
The maker never adds a Halaal mark, a vegetarian sign or any other claim to your picture. If one is true of your kitchen, you can say so in your own words in the note at the foot. It is your statement, and it stays exactly as you type it.
9A photo of a bunny
A bunny photographed from above is a brown square. Shoot it from the front at table height, with the curry running over the edge of the loaf, in daylight. The maker frames one photo under your name.

Curry and bunny chow menu design ideas

Six ways one curry menu can look, from a warm dark card to a red counter board. Tap a picture to start from it, then type your own dishes over the example.

Curry house look, tall shape
Curry house is warm and dark: maroon with a scalloped gold edge, section names on a red painted stroke and every price in gold. It is drawn from the curry and bunny chow posters of small restaurants here, which are dark with gold, cream and red.
Kasi look in red, tall shape
Kasi in red with white tabs is the counter board of a takeaway: loud, flat and quick to read from the door.
Dark and serif look in wine, tall shape
Dark wine with serif names is how a sit-down restaurant writes its curries. A thin line runs under each dish and nothing else is on the card.
Curry house look in brown and saffron, A4 to print
Brown with saffron orange, set for A4. Printed, it goes on the wall by the counter where the order is placed.
Curry house look in green and gold, square
Dark green with gold, on a square for a post. The four sections sit in two columns.
Menu board in black and gold, A5 to print
A black and gold board at A5, for the counter. Section names stand over a gold rule.

A curry menu, step by step

The example has four sections. "Bunny chow" has three bunnies, each with a Quarter and a Half price. "Curry and rice" has four curries with one price each, the side said once in the section name. Breyani has two lines. "Breads and sides" has a roti, a garlic naan, three samoosas and sambals. The foot gives the heat choices and the opening days.

Tips

  1. Name the two bunny sizes once, above the columns: Quarter and Half.
  2. Spell dishes as your own board does: breyani or biryani, roti or rotti.
  3. Put "with rice" in the section name and keep every curry line to the name of the curry.
  4. Count the samoosas in the name.
  5. If mutton is some days and lamb others, list the one you have today and remake the picture when it changes.

Sizes and printing

Tall, for WhatsApp Status
Tall like a phone screen. Best for WhatsApp Status and for Stories.
Square, for a post
Square. Best for a post on Facebook or Instagram.
Printer page (A4)
A4 is the size of a normal printer page. Print it at home or at a print shop. A home printer leaves a thin white edge.
Half page (A5)
A5 is half of a normal printer page. Good for a counter. A home printer leaves a thin white edge.

Questions

Can I show quarter, half and full bunny prices on one line?
No, a line holds two prices. Use Quarter and Half as the two columns and add the full loaf as its own line, with "full" in the name.
Will the maker add a Halaal sign?
No. It adds no mark or claim of any kind. You can state it in your own words in the note at the foot of the menu if it is true of your kitchen.
Where do I say mild, medium or hot?
In the box for where you are and when you are open, once. It is drawn at the foot of the menu.
Can I take pre-orders for a Friday curry?
You can say so in words, such as "Order by Thurs 3pm", in the note at the foot. The maker has no date or deadline box and takes no orders: it makes the picture only.
What is the difference between a bunny chow and a kota?
A bunny chow is a hollowed loaf filled with curry, and it began among Indian South Africans in Durban. A kota is a quarter loaf filled with slap chips and fillings such as polony, russian and cheese.

What you type is kept in this browser on this device until you clear your browser data, so you can come back, change a price and save a new picture. A photo and a logo are optional and are not kept for the next visit.

  • Kota menu in the Kasi look: orange and red, section names on tilted white tabs, four sections with small and large prices for chipsKota menu

    The kota is the other filled quarter loaf, with chips and polony where the bunny has curry.

  • Gatsby menu in the Takeaway sign look: a red ground with a yellow bar along the top and foot, the word Gatsbys in yellow script over the name in white capitals, six gatsbys with half and full prices in two yellow columnsGatsby menu

    Masala steak in a long roll is a gatsby, sold by the half and the full.

  • Chinese takeaway menu in the Red and gold look: a red ground with a thin gold lattice strip along the top and foot, the word Menu on a white block, the name in white capitals over one gold rule, four sections with gold section names and gold pricesChinese takeaway

    Chow mein and fried rice from the same kitchen have a red and gold menu.

  • Takeaway menu on a blackboard with six sections: burgers, kotas, chicken, combos, chips and drinks, with two price columns where there are two sizesTakeaway menu

    Toasted sandwiches, burgers and chips round the curries fit a takeaway menu in sections.

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