Getmenu ae explained: the address your restaurant gets

You searched for an address rather than a product, so this page answers the address question first. getmenu.ae is the home of Get Menu, restaurant ordering software built and run by Anunzio International FZC, a company based in Dubai. When a restaurant signs up, it does not get a listing on our site. It gets its own address on it, in the shape of yourname.getmenu.ae, and that address is where its customers order.

That distinction is the whole reason the product exists, so the rest of this page explains what the address is, what sits at it, and what it is not.

Why the address ends in .ae

The .ae ending is the United Arab Emirates country domain. It is run by the aeDA, the domain administration that sits inside the TDRA, and the regulator's own page reports 350,573 registered .ae domains along with the eligibility policy that decides who may hold one.

We chose it deliberately. Google's own starter guide for site owners says the domain ending only matters if you are targeting a specific country's users, which is exactly our case. Our customers are restaurants in this region, and their customers are people ordering food a few kilometres away. An address that says where we are is worth more to them than a shorter one that says nothing.

What a restaurant gets on it

Every plan includes an ordering page at an address of your own on getmenu.ae from the first day. Nothing is shared with another restaurant, and the name in front of the dot is yours to choose.

That address is the one place everything points at. The QR code on your table opens it. The link you send in a message opens it. The card in your window opens it. If you later want the storefront to sit on a domain you own yourself, that is a paid extra we are opening up shortly, and the address on ours keeps working either way.

What people see when they arrive is yours to shape. There are 12 page layouts, so a coffee list and a long grill menu do not have to look the same. There are 57 colour themes and a font picker. A photo style toggle lets you show square pictures, tall ones, or none at all if your kitchen has no good photographs yet.

Setting up what sits there

The menu is the slow part everywhere else, so it was built to be the fast part here.

If your menu is already in a spreadsheet, upload the file and the whole thing appears at once instead of being typed in item by item. After that, categories and items are dragged into the order you want them read.

Underneath each dish you add options and add-ons with their own prices. Some of those choices can be marked as required, so an order for a burger cannot reach the kitchen without saying how it is cooked. Photographs are compressed for you, which keeps the page quick on a phone with two bars of signal. Item names and descriptions can be written in Arabic.

Stock counts sit behind all of it. A count falls as orders come in, an item greys itself out when it hits zero, and options carry counts of their own, so running out of one sauce does not remove a whole dish from the page. Cancel an order and the count comes back.

What happens when somebody orders at that address

Every line is priced again from your live menu at the moment of checkout, so the number a customer read is the number they are asked for. Two quick taps cannot create two orders.

Then three messages leave in about 2 seconds. The customer gets a confirmation carrying a link to a status page that needs no login. Your managers' group gets the ticket, with every option written out. If it is a delivery, the riders' group gets a link with the GPS pin the customer dropped at checkout, and that link opens for a driver who has no account and nothing installed.

Delivery fees follow the building rather than a flat guess. A customer picks their tower and unit from a list you control, and you set a fee per building, with free delivery above whatever total you choose.

"For years I sold point of sale software to small shops, and every one of them ended up renting their own customers back from somebody else. The address had to belong to the restaurant. That was the first decision, before a single screen was drawn." — Anzul Aqeel, founder of Get Menu

Inside the restaurant

A code is generated for every table you have. A designer lets the printed code carry your own colours and logo, and the print pack is emailed to you ready to take to a printer.

Because the table is the address, nobody types a table number wrongly. A group sitting together can order from their own phones onto one bill, which removes the part of the evening where somebody works out who had what.

Regulars are handled from the same place. Stamps can be given on every order, on each dirham spent, or only on the dish you are trying to sell more of. Tiers your regulars grow into can carry a discount that applies itself. The card lives in Google Wallet, updating itself with no application to install, and the Apple version is built but waiting on a certificate, which we would rather say than imply.

Coupons carry caps, exclusions and expiry dates. Bundles set a fixed price for a group of items. Two automatic discounts never stack by accident, because the better one wins. Marketing messages are capped per customer per week, and two campaigns that would hit the same person are held for you to approve.

Tax invoices come out as a PDF carrying your registration number, numbered in one sequence with no gaps, and the sales dashboard breaks the week down by day, item and channel.

The names that are not us

Search engines are not good at telling similar names apart, so this needs saying plainly. There are other companies and mobile applications on the internet using names close to ours. Some are in different countries and different businesses entirely. None of them are connected to this one.

Get Menu is the product described on this page, published at getmenu.ae, owned by Anunzio International FZC in Dubai, with Tanzeel ur Rehman and Agha Shah Zaman as co-founders alongside me. If you are reading a page that does not sit on getmenu.ae, it is not ours.

What it deliberately does not do

There are no online payments. A customer pays with cash or your card machine at the door, which also means the system holds no card details for anyone to steal. There is no scheduled ordering and no pre-order. We sell no hardware. We do not count ingredients, run payroll, take table bookings or supply drivers.

The commercial side is short. One flat price each month, 0 percent taken from your sales, and the bill does not grow when a good week does. The customer list is yours: names, numbers and order history export to a file on any day you ask, including the day you leave. Detail on an old order is erased once it is 120 days past, so the address book does not quietly become a risk.

A new account runs free for 15 days and we ask for no card to open one. When the 15 days end you choose a plan or the account stops, and nothing is taken by surprise.

If you came here to compare rather than to check who we are, point of sale systems in Dubai sets out the wider market, QR code menus covers the code on the table, and restaurant apps explains why your customers will not be installing one.

Frequently asked questions

Is getmenu.ae the same thing as Get Menu?

Yes. Get Menu is the product and getmenu.ae is where it lives. Every restaurant on it also gets its own name in front of that address, which is the address its customers actually use.

Can I use my own domain name instead?

Your address on getmenu.ae is included in every plan and works from day one. Putting your storefront on a domain you bought yourself is a paid extra we are opening up shortly.

Are you the app I found with a similar name?

No. Several unrelated companies and applications use similar names. Ours is published at getmenu.ae and operated by Anunzio International FZC in Dubai, and we have no link to the others.

Can customers pay online?

No. Payment is cash or your card machine when the food arrives. It is a genuine limit, and it is also the reason there is nothing sensitive stored on our side.

How quickly can a restaurant be taking orders?

Most are live the same day. A spreadsheet menu goes up in one upload, and the only step needing a person with a phone in hand is connecting your WhatsApp groups.