# MustHaveMenus

> MustHaveMenus is a Bend, Oregon software company that gives restaurants, bars, hotels, and hospitality groups an all-in-one platform to design, print, and publish menus across print, web, QR codes, and digital signage. Founded by serial entrepreneur Jim Williams, it started as a simple menu-design tool and grew into a menu operations system with the world's largest library of restaurant design templates - 15,000-plus and counting - used by tens of thousands of businesses worldwide.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** Bend, Oregon, United States
- **Founders:** Jim Williams (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~23 employees
- **Products:** Menu Maker, Menu Management, MustHaveMenus Display, QR Codes & Online Menus, Printing Services
- **Notable:** Built the world's largest library of professional restaurant menu templates - 15,000 and counting., Served tens of thousands of restaurants, bars, hotels, and hospitality businesses worldwide., Launched MustHaveMenus Display in February 2024, unifying menu design and digital signage.

## Products & services

- **Menu Maker** — An online design editor with the world's largest collection of professional restaurant templates (15,000+), letting owners create and edit print and digital menus without a designer.
- **Menu Management** — A unified dashboard to organize menus by location, control multi-location updates, manage an item library, set brand rules, and manage team access.
- **MustHaveMenus Display** — Digital signage management, launched February 2024, that pushes menu, brand, and promotion changes to screens across many locations instantly, integrated with the menu maker.
- **QR Codes & Online Menus** — Mobile-optimized, contactless menus and QR codes plus link pages for publishing menus to the web.
- **Printing Services** — In-house printing of menus and marketing collateral shipped to the restaurant.
- **Branding & Menu Services** — Done-for-you design, branding guidelines, and menu-services support for owners who want expert help.

## Achievements

- Built the world's largest library of professional restaurant menu templates - 15,000 and counting.
- Served tens of thousands of restaurants, bars, hotels, and hospitality businesses worldwide.
- Launched MustHaveMenus Display in February 2024, unifying menu design and digital signage.
- Bootstrapped-style growth to ~$4.3M annual revenue on only ~$1.33M total raised.
- Sustained operation since 2007 in a category where most menu-tool startups have come and gone.

## Latest updates

- **2024-02** — Launched MustHaveMenus Display, a digital signage management system integrated with the menu maker for instant, multi-screen menu updates.
- **2025-02** — Refreshed homepage positioning around 'restaurant digital signage and menu operations,' expanding the platform's menu-management and multi-location messaging.

## Links

- Website: https://musthavemenus.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/musthavemenus
- Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/musthavemenus
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MustHaveMenus
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musthavemenus/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/musthavemenus

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Last updated: 2026-07-03