Menu reprint cost calculator

Free tool for food trucks and pop-ups · no signup

Prices go up, specials rotate, items sell out. Every change to a printed menu board or sticker costs money and time. Put in your own numbers to see what menu changes cost you in a year.

Menu changes per month (prices, specials, seasonal items) Print cost per change, in $ (board, stickers, banner, laminating) Hours spent per change (design, print run, swapping it on the truck) What your time is worth per hour, in $

How the numbers work

Yearly cost = changes per month × 12 × (print cost + hours × your hourly rate). Use your real numbers. A truck that only changes the menu twice a year has little to save, and one that changes weekly has a lot.

Ways to cut the cost

Print only what rarely changes. Keep the logo, truck name and core items on the permanent board, and keep prices and specials somewhere easy to edit.
Use a chalkboard or dry-erase panel for specials. Cheap, but slow to redo and hard to read in direct sun.
Put a QR code on the truck that opens a menu page you can edit. The sticker stays, and only the page changes. See how food truck QR menus work and what a QR menu costs.

MenuDecal: 5 outdoor vinyl decals with your logo and a QR code to a menu page we keep updated for you, free for 12 months. Email us a change and the page updates, with no reprint.

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