Setting Up Your Restaurant

The first screen after you create a Lekro account isn’t the dashboard. It’s a three-step setup wizard that asks for your restaurant’s name, a few regional settings, and the pages you want on your public website. From those answers Lekro builds a live website and a starter menu. Most owners are through it in two or three minutes.

Nothing you enter is locked in. Every field has a matching setting in the dashboard afterwards, and there’s a map of where each one lives at the end of this guide. What follows covers the parts that aren’t self-explanatory, and the two or three choices that quietly shape what you get at the end.

What the wizard does

• It’s mandatory once. It appears the first time you sign in with a restaurant that has no profile, and you can’t reach the dashboard until you finish it. It runs again for each new restaurant you add later.
• Only the restaurant name is required. Everything else can be left blank.
• Skipping doesn’t lose anything. The Skip link jumps ahead without saving right then, but your answers (including the regional settings Lekro detected for you) are still written when you save on a later step.
• It seeds your account at the end with a sample menu and a working storefront, in the language and cuisine you picked, so you’re editing something real rather than starting from an empty page.

Step 1: Brand Identity

The card marked Live Preview is a miniature of how your restaurant header will look to visitors, and it’s the upload target for both images: click the wide band for a cover photo, the circle for a logo. The logo is cropped to a circle from the centre, so square files work best.

Note: Images upload the moment you choose them, unlike everything else in the wizard, which is only written when you save the step. If you don’t have good photos yet, skip them. You can add them any time from Settings → Business Profile.

Restaurant Name is the one required field. Type it exactly as you want it read on your website, your menu, and your QR codes.

Tagline / Short Bio is one or two sentences, up to 200 characters. It appears on your homepage and in search-engine results, so it’s closer to an advert than a description. It’s stored against your primary language, so adding a second language later means translating this line rather than replacing it.

Type of Cuisine

This is the field worth slowing down for, because it’s not just a label: it decides which sample menu Lekro creates for you when you finish setup. Choose Levantine and you get mezze and grills to edit; choose Café and you get a drinks-led menu.

• Type to filter the list. Search works in both English and Arabic, whatever language the dashboard is in.
• Nothing is pre-selected, and clicking your current choice a second time clears it.
• General / Not sure sits on its own at the bottom. Picking it, or leaving the field empty, gives you the generic starter menu.
• The options cover Middle Eastern and regional cuisines (Levantine, Gulf, Egyptian, Yemeni, Turkish, Moroccan, Persian), international ones (Italian, Mediterranean, American, Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Asian), and venue types (Café, Bakery, Desserts, Seafood).

The dishes you get are ordinary menu items: rename them, re-price them, or delete the lot.

Step 2: Operations & Contact

All three regional settings are pre-filled from the country you’re browsing from, so they’re usually right before you touch anything.

Primary Language

The language your menu and website are written in: English, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Chinese. Whatever you pick becomes your restaurant’s only language for now, and it’s the language your sample menu is generated in. Extra languages are added afterwards from Settings → Business Profile → Regional, where you can also auto-translate the whole menu.

Note: This is not the same as the English / العربية toggle in the top-right corner, which only changes the language of the dashboard you’re looking at.

Currency

Over sixty currencies, searchable by name, ISO code (EGP, SAR, USD), or symbol. The symbol shown beside each entry is exactly what customers see next to your prices, which is why most currencies display their code rather than an ambiguous glyph.

Prices are stored as plain numbers, so changing currency later relabels your menu rather than converting it.

Timezone

Used to timestamp orders and reservations against your local clock. If your device’s timezone isn’t already in the list of common zones, it’s added at the very top and marked Device Default, so the right answer is usually the first row.

Public phone and email

Both optional, and both are the details printed on your website, not necessarily your personal line or the email you sign in with. On mobile, the phone renders as a tap-to-call link.

Step 3: Website Modules

Each row here is one page or feature on your public site. Turn a row on and its sub-options appear underneath it.

Module	Default	What it adds
Digital Menu	On	A responsive, searchable online menu
Visual Gallery	Off	A photo showcase of your dishes and venue
Ratings & Reviews	Off	Star ratings and written customer feedback
Contact & Location	Off	A contact page with a map and your details
Meet the Team	Off	Staff profiles with photos and roles
Our Story	Off	A page for your history and philosophy

The sub-options are where the real decisions are:

• Enable Online Ordering (under Digital Menu, on by default) turns on pickup and dine-in together. Delivery, delivery fees, and per-channel control live in Menu → Menu Configuration afterwards. See ordering and service settings. Switch it off and your menu stays browsable, just without an order button.
• Enable User-Generated Content (under Visual Gallery, on by default) lets visitors upload their own photos of your food and venue.
• Accept New Reviews (under Ratings & Reviews, on by default) can be switched off later to keep existing reviews visible while closing submissions.
• Enable WhatsApp Chat (under Contact & Location, off by default) adds a floating WhatsApp button to every page.
• Auto-Publish Photos and Auto-Publish Reviews are nested one level deeper and both default to off: meaning guest photos and new reviews wait in your queue until you approve them. That’s the safer starting point; flip either from Community → Moderation once you’re comfortable.

The two-page limit

The wizard lets you enable two pages, and the Digital Menu counts as one of them, so in practice you’re choosing one companion page during setup. This is the wizard’s own cap, not your account’s ceiling: paid plans allow more, and you enable the extras afterwards from Website → Pages & Features. See turning website features on and off.

Finishing setup

Complete Setup does more than save the last step. It tells Lekro the account is ready, which triggers a one-time build: a sample menu matching your cuisine and language, and a live storefront containing the modules you enabled.

From then on there is no publish button anywhere in Lekro. Everything you change goes live the moment you save it: how your website updates explains that model in full.

Where to change these settings later

Set in the wizard	Change it in
Restaurant name, tagline, logo, cover photo	Settings → Business Profile
Primary language, extra languages, currency, timezone	Settings → Business Profile → Regional
Public phone, public email, address, map	Settings → Business Profile → Contact
Which pages and features are on	Website → Pages & Features
Order channels (pickup, dine-in, delivery)	Menu → Menu Configuration
Review and guest-photo approval	Community → Moderation
Cuisine	Not editable: it only ever seeded your sample menu

Questions that come up

Can I leave the wizard and come back? Yes. Close the tab or sign out, and the steps you already saved are kept. You’ll land back in the wizard next time you sign in.

I started setting up the wrong restaurant. Use Switch workspace in the top bar to jump to another restaurant you own, or to create a new one. It only appears when your account has more than one.

Does changing the cuisine later change my menu? No. Cuisine is read once, when you press Complete Setup, to decide which sample dishes to create. After that it has no effect, and those dishes are yours to edit or delete.

What to do next

1. Build your real menu, or skip the typing and extract it from a photo of your printed menu.
2. Set your colors and fonts so the site looks like your restaurant.
3. Generate QR codes for your tables.
4. Set your working hours so the site knows when you’re open.

If you run more than one location, adding another restaurant puts you right back in the wizard you just finished.