Best way to organize a café / drink menu with many items for easy scanning in Excel?

Hi everyone,

I’m using Excel to manage a café-style menu that includes a lot of drink items, categories, and prices. The challenge I’m facing is readability. When everything is in one long sheet, it’s hard for people to quickly scan the menu and find what they want.

I’m trying to make this more user-friendly for non-technical users, similar to how customers scan a real menu.

In Excel, what approaches work best for this type of use case? For example:

• Separating items by category (coffee, cold drinks, specials, etc.)
• Using filters or tables to narrow choices
• Structuring the sheet in a more menu-style layout instead of a flat list

From your experience, what makes menu-style lists easier to understand and navigate in Excel?

Any practical advice would be appreciated.