Terrible Restaurant Menu Designs That Belong in Hell
If their goal was to confuse everyone and make them leave their establishment, then they succeeded spectacularly.
Restaurant menus are supposed to make ordering easier, but some designs do the exact opposite. Instead of guiding customers through the choices, they turn a simple meal into a confusing visual puzzle.
The examples below show menus that are awkward, cluttered, cropped, tilted, or just plain hard to read. In some cases, the problem is the layout, and in others, it is the choice to get creative at the expense of clarity.
Scroll through the worst offenders and see which one makes you wince the most.
1. This French Restaurant Menu That Makes Much More Sense Unfolded.
Reddit2. "This restaurant’s logo looks like a health grade"
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3. "This 'M' on a kids' menu activity..."
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4. "This restaurant wraps their menu around a wooden stick... there was absolutely no explanation or purpose for it"
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At that point, the menu becomes part of the problem.
5. "The 'Crappy Design' Mother Lode"
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6. "Anyone want some Thai food?"
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7. "The misuse of capital letters on this menu"
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8. "This menu at Cereal Killer Cafe, London"
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9. "No, this picture isn't blurry... the menu is."
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Some of these are hard to read on purpose, which is somehow worse.
This feels like the friend who ordered expensive dinner items, then argued to split the bill evenly.
10. "These tilted menus"
They're going for the post-earthquake look.
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11. "This coffee shop's overhead menu gave me a headache"
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12. "Third scoop? I asked for a double!"
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13. "Menu at a Local Restaurant"
It's supposed to say "Two Brothers"
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14. "This menu looks upside down at first glance"
Holy Mother of Crappy Designs...
15. "Texcock Mextails"
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16. "Found a restaurant in Cape Cod that used a screenshot of their menu in Microsoft Word."
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Microsoft Word was not built for this kind of ambition.
17. "Clearly missing the point of a digital menu."
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18. "The restaurant is called Str'eat (amazing food, by the way), but the logo is confusing!"
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19. "Would you like your chips with or without chips?"
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20. "I'm impressed that this Thai menu has text cropping both over AND under the image."
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21. "The maze on the kids' menu is impossible to get through"
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22. "Restaurant puts Cocktails and Beers right under the Kids' Menu"
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23. "This busy ice cream shop in Seattle put their menu on a mirror, making it impossible to read"
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Simplicity is still the best solution, and these menus prove why.
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