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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...
A long flat sheet is usually the main problem. It’s easier to scan if you separate data from presentation. Keep one sheet as a simple table with category, item, and price. Then create a second sheet designed like a menu, with clear category headers, items listed underneath, and prices aligned in one column. Spacing between categories helps more than heavy formatting.
Excel’s free templates can be a good starting point for layout ideas:
https://excel.cloud.microsoft/create/en/templates/
Real café drink menus online can be useful references for structuring clear categories in Excel, such as this café-style menu layout:
https://dbrosmenu.com/