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Restaurant chain · Print-to-digital

200 stores. Weekly menu swaps. Zero reprints. Zero on-site IT.

A regional restaurant chain wanted printed table-tent QR codes for menus and a way to swap the linked PDF without reprinting the tents every season.

Curd Studio for Acme Chain (200 stores)
Stores covered
200
Token rotations · YTD
34
Reprint cost avoided
$112k
Avg. menu-swap time
11 min

The problem

Acme Chain operates 200 stores across the Mid-Atlantic. Their old menu-tent setup involved printing 200 cards every time corporate updated the menu — about every 6 weeks. Each cycle cost roughly $18,000 in print plus distribution, and it never matched seasonal menu rollouts cleanly because of FedEx lag.

Curd Studio pitched a "QR-driven menu" model: print 200 table tents once with a QR each, point each QR at a per-store PDF menu, then swap the PDF on the server side whenever corporate pushes a menu change.

The workflow

  1. Bulk-generate 200 codes

    CSV upload with 200 rows. Each code mapped to a per-store menu URL on Acme's file server. POST /api/qrs/bulk returned 201 in under three seconds.

  2. Print once

    Curd Studio printed table tents with embedded codes once at the start of the contract. No reprints required for menu changes — just URL swaps.

  3. Swap menu on schedule

    Every seasonal menu update: corporate uploads new PDFs to the file server, then Curd Studio updates the linked URL via the API. 200-store refresh in 11 minutes on average.

  4. Rotate tokens on demand

    When a store closes or a URL leaks, one token.rotate call kills the link without affecting the other 199 stores.

  5. Weekly client report

    Per-store scan counts via the metadata endpoint, packaged in a Curd Studio-branded PDF every Monday. Acme uses it to identify under-performing stores.

Why it mattered

The reprint avoidance pays for the SealedQR Agency tier subscription roughly 8x per year, before counting Curd Studio's retainer for the operational service.

Acme has since asked Curd Studio to extend the program to in-store promotional signage. The contract is up for a 3-year renewal.

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