Morning customers are regulars in the making. The person who grabs eggs and coffee at your counter on Tuesday is likely to be back on Wednesday, so a breakfast menu has to be friendly, quick to read, and easy to love. This Breakfast Menu Template does that with a sunny sky-blue header, a big fried egg that doubles as your photo frame, and four tidy sections that cover what people really order before 11 am.
Sunny Side Up: The Design
The menu is a US Letter page, 8.5 x 11 inches, portrait. The top third is a soft sky-blue band. On the right, a large white fried egg with a wobbly, hand-drawn edge floats on the blue, and its yolk is a round photo frame with a thick golden ring. Drop in a close-up of your pancakes, a plate of eggs, or your diner’s front window, and the photo becomes the yolk.
On the left of the header, GOOD MORNING sits in small tomato-red capitals above Rise & Shine in bouncy navy Pacifico script. BREAKFAST MENU follows in tall Bebas Neue letters, and a line underneath gives serving hours (Served daily 6 am – 11 am · All day on weekends).
The menu below is on warm cream paper in two columns. Each section starts with a little orange icon (a fried egg, a stack of pancakes, bacon strips, a steaming cup), a navy Bebas Neue heading, and a pale blue rule:
- Eggs & Omelettes: five dishes with a short description under each, from Two Eggs Any Style to a Breakfast Burrito.
- Pancakes & Waffles: a buttermilk stack, blueberry pancakes, a Belgian waffle, brioche French toast, and chicken and waffles.
- On the Side and Coffee & Juice: short, price-only lists for add-ons and drinks.
Dish names are in bold Nunito Sans, prices in tomato red on the right, and descriptions in small grey italics. At the foot of the page, a navy band forms a horizon with a golden half-sun rising from it and short rays fanning upward. It echoes the yolk at the top, so the page opens and closes on sunshine. The diner name, address, and phone number sit in the band on the left, with a Kids 10 & under: half-price pancakes offer and our logo on the right.
Breakfast Words Your Customers Know (and a Few They Don’t)
A breakfast menu uses its own vocabulary. If you are writing descriptions for the first time, this short glossary helps you describe dishes accurately, and you can add any of these terms to the template:
| Term | What it means on a menu | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Any style | The guest chooses how the eggs are cooked: scrambled, fried, or poached. | ||
| Sunny side up | Fried on one side only, with the yolk runny and on top. | ||
| Over easy/medium/hard | Flipped once. | The yolk goes from runny (easy) to jammy (medium) to firm (hard). | |
| Benedict | An English muffin topped with ham or Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. | ||
| Denver omelette | Ham, green pepper and onion, usually with cheese. | ||
| Short stack/full stack | Two or three pancakes versus four or five. | Say which on the menu. | |
| Hash browns vs home fries | Shredded, crispy potatoes versus diced, pan-fried potato chunks. | ||
| Bottomless | Free refills. | Say clearly whether it applies to coffee only. |
Making It Your Diner’s Menu
- Put a real breakfast in the yolk: Click the yolk and choose Replace Image. Your photo fills the circle, and the gold ring stays. Close, overhead shots read best in a circle.
- Change the name and hours.Rise & Shine: can stay as a greeting, or replace it with your café’s name. Update the serving times line underneath.
- Rewrite the dishes: Each menu line has three parts (name, price, and description), so you can edit them separately. If a dish needs no description, delete that line and nudge the next dish up.
- Swap an icon: The section icons are editable vectors. Recolour them from their colour swatches, or replace one with an icon from the editor’s elements.
- Update the footer: Type your address and phone into the navy band, and change the kids’ offer to your own promotion, for example, Coffee refills free before 8 am.
If you serve lunch as well, keep this page for breakfast and use Add Page to add a second page for sandwiches and salads. You can then download both pages together as one PDF.
Tips for a Faster Morning Service
- Put the best sellers first: Most people read only the first two or three items in a section, so lead with your most popular plate.
- Keep descriptions short: One line of ingredients is enough. Guests want to order before their coffee gets cold.
- Price sides clearly: Customers often add bacon or toast on impulse when the price is visible and low.
- Show weekend hours:All day on weekends is one of the most useful things a breakfast menu can say.
- Mention substitutions: If egg whites or gluten-free toast cost extra, add a small line at the bottom of the relevant section.
Printing Breakfast Menus That Survive Syrup
Breakfast menus meet coffee rings and sticky fingers every day. Laminate table copies, or print on synthetic waterproof paper that wipes clean. For takeout and delivery bags, plain 24 lb paper is fine. The sky-blue header and navy footer reach the edges, so a copy shop’s full-bleed printing gives the neatest finish; at home, the white border simply frames the design. Download a PNG or JPG for your Google listing and social posts. A photo of pancakes in the yolk makes an appealing thumbnail.
Frequently Asked by Café Owners
Can I add a “Breakfast Specials” section?
Yes. The easiest way is to replace On the Side with Today’s Specials and list two or three combos, such as Two eggs, bacon, toast, and coffee 11.95.
Is there room for calorie counts?
Add calories to the end of each description line in the same small italic, for example …hollandaise · 620 cal. Check your local rules on menu labelling if you have many locations.
Can I change the blue to my brand colour?
Select the header band and pick any colour. For a warmer, farmhouse look, a soft sage or butter yellow works well with the white egg.
Does it work for a bed and breakfast?
Very well. Remove the prices, change the heading to This Morning’s Breakfast, and list what you’ll serve guests. It makes a lovely card to leave on the table.
Good Morning, Good Menu
Add your breakfast photo, set your prices and hours, and print a stack of menus for the counter and the tables. When the seasons change, open the template, swap in a pumpkin pancake or a summer berry waffle, and your breakfast menu is fresh again.
