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Translate many dishes at once

Your menu can be in several languages. A dish added in English is empty in the others until somebody fills it. Tick the dishes and fill them together. Categories work the same way, from their own list.

The rule

It fills empty languages only. Text already there is never replaced.

How it works

  1. On Menu → Menu Items, tick the dishes you want. The bar at the bottom shows Translate. On Menu → Categories, tick the categories you want — the same Translate is in that bar too.
  2. A box opens and lists each language with the number of empty texts.
  3. Press one language to do that language only. Or leave All languages to do a bit of each.
  4. Press Translate them.
  5. One press does 100 texts. Press again for the rest.

Good to know

  • It translates the dish name, the short description, the long description and the recommended note. For categories, the category name and its description.
  • It translates the ingredient list too. If you named the ingredients of a dish, they come out in the other language, so a guest reading that dish in Thai reads Thai ingredients.
  • The allergen and diet chips ride along with the dish. Ticking a dish covers its allergen and dietary chips too — there is no separate box for them.
  • If the ingredient translation comes back with the wrong number of items, we keep your own list and say nothing. One wrong item under the wrong name is worse than English.
  • Pick one language and press until it reads zero. That finishes a language faster than doing them all together.
  • It only touches what you ticked. Ticked dishes never translate their categories, ticked categories never translate their dishes, and your venue text is not included either way. The allergen and diet chips belong to their dish, so they ride along with a ticked dish; ticked categories still never translate dishes.
  • You pay by length. Many words cost nothing because they are already translated.
  • A dish with no English text has nothing to translate from, so it is skipped.
  • If your plan has no translation, the box says so and the button stays grey. You can still type the other languages yourself.
  • To do the whole venue at once, use Settings → Languages instead.