Table tent and rack card templates for restaurants and cafés
This format is three pieces of print wearing one name, and a restaurant uses all three. The tent card stands on the table and sells the thing nobody ordered. The rack card sits in a hotel lobby holder and has three inches to win an out-of-towner. The door hanger goes on four hundred handles within your delivery radius. Same press, same file setup, three completely different jobs.
17 layouts across tents, racks and hangers
The slug tells you which piece each one was drawn for. Restaurant, café and hotel wording; the photographic ones are set up for a real dish, not a stock plate of pasta.
Hard splitVintage · Restaurant palette
Hard splitHandmade · Retail confident palette
Centred lockupElegant · Hotel palette
Ticket stubBold · Food delivery palette
Inset frameFriendly · Food delivery palette
Diagonal splitMinimal · Real estate palette
StatementHandmade · Restaurant palette
Leading edgeVintage · Food delivery palette
Hard splitVintage · Real estate palette
Nine-square gridBold · Food delivery palette
Ticket stubHandmade · Food delivery palette
Ticket stubMinimal · Travel agency palette
Diagonal splitBold · Luxury retail palette
Leading edgeVintage · Retail confident palette
Haloed badgeCalm · Hotel palette
Rule stackVintage · Luxury retail palette
OrbitVintage · Food delivery paletteThe tent card is the only sales assistant that never gets tired
A table tent works because it is read during dead time — after ordering, before the food, when there is nothing to look at but the person opposite and whatever is on the table. That is the moment to sell a dessert, a second round, the Tuesday tasting menu or the loyalty scheme. It is not the moment to reprint the whole menu in six point.
One offer per face, and use both faces: the two sides of a tent card face opposite ends of the table, so a two-top reads two different things. Keep the price on the same line as the item — a diner who has to hunt for the number assumes it is bad news.
Racks hide the bottom two thirds, and hangers lose their top
A brochure holder in a hotel lobby covers everything below roughly three inches of a 4 × 9 inch rack card. Whatever has to be read from across that lobby — the name of the restaurant and one line about what it is — belongs in that top strip, above the fold you cannot see. Everything else is for the guest who has already picked the card up.
The door hanger inverts the problem: a hole and a slot are punched out of its top two inches, so the strip you would normally put a logo in is literally missing. Build the hanger from the hole down, and remember it is read in one second by somebody carrying groceries — one offer, a QR code, a phone number, done.
What each piece is for
Six jobs a kitchen prints for, and which of the three shapes does each one.
- Dessert and after-dinner drinks — tent card, both faces, on every table.
- Happy hour and weekday prix fixe — tent card at the bar, rack card at the host stand.
- Room service and hotel guest directory — rack card, top three inches doing the work.
- Delivery-radius launch — door hanger, one offer and a QR code, printed by the thousand.
- Catering and private-dining enquiries — rack card left with the check.
- Staff-facing allergen and prep reminders — tent card in the pass, laminated.
What the run costs
Tents are counted per table and reprinted per season; hangers are counted per street. The ladder below is the tent card, which is the piece most kitchens buy first.
| Product | Starts at | Per piece | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Tent Cards | $53.05 | 25 · $2.12 ea | |
| Rack Cards | $51.71 | 50 · $1.03 ea | |
| Doorhangers | $120.35 | 100 · $1.20 ea |
Live catalogue prices — the same number the configurator shows when you open the product, and the same one the checkout charges. Every row opens a configurator where stock, size, finish and quantity move the price.
Price by quantity — Table Tent Cards
| Quantity | Total | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $53.05 | $2.12 |
| 50 | $74.58 | $1.49 |
| 100 | $109.52 | $1.10 |
| 250 | $192.63 | $0.77 |
| 500 | $277.81 | $0.56 |
Computed at build time by the same pricing engine that charges the card at checkout, on the product's default options. Change the stock or finish and the number moves — the configurator shows it live.
Questions we get asked
- How many tent cards for a forty-seat room?
- One per table plus a third again for the bar, the pass and the ones that get knocked into a water glass. For a forty-seat room that is usually twenty tables and an order of twenty-five to fifty.
- Do they survive a dining room?
- Order them laminated if they live on the table through a service. Grease and condensation go straight through an unlaminated card, and a warped tent card reads as a warped kitchen.
- Is the tent card size the flat sheet or the finished card?
- The finished panel. A 5 × 7 tent is printed on a 5 × 18.5 inch sheet and scored into a triangle — we impose and score it, you design the panel you want to see.
- Should the QR code point at the menu or at ordering?
- At whichever one you will keep current. A QR code that opens a PDF menu from two summers ago does more damage than no code at all — link it to the page you edit, not to a file you uploaded once.
Sizes, bleed, safety margin and the finishes this format supports are on the Rack Cards, Door Hangers & Tent Cards page, with the full set of Rack Cards, Door Hangers & Tent Cards questions.
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