WHY CLEVELAND MENU?
A menu is more than just a list of available dishes printed on a piece of paper – it’s the most important part of hospitality.
Your experience, passion and knowledge go into creating the items on the menu. Our expertise is creating a menu that becomes your hardest working sales tool; a menu that builds your brand, delivers a great customer experience, and drives revenue.
A MENU THAT WORKS. THAT IS OUR CRAFT.
WE CALL IT MENUCRAFT. AND WE’VE PERFECTED IT.
Your customers probably spend more time with your menu than with your servers. You put a lot of time and effort to train your servers so that they correctly communicate your menu, provide exceptional service and fulfill your brand expectations, right? Your menu deserves as much (if not more) of an investment.
Cleveland Menu has been serving the hospitality industry since 1930, specializing in the design and production of high quality printed, leather, metal, and wood menu covers. In-house production allows us to manufacture your custom menu covers to any size or shape you need.
OUR STORY
FROM A SMALL ACORN GREW A TALL AND HEALTHY TREE
Julius Ramella grew up in an orphanage in the early 1900s. He started working for a small menu company as a printer when he was 18 years old and eventually bought the printing division of the company, founding Cleveland Menu Printing, Inc. in 1930.
Today, Cleveland Menu is a 3rd-generation family business that still adheres to Julius’ work ethic and beliefs.
Don’t confuse “family business” with “old and slow.” Cleveland Menu has remained the leader in the menu industry by constantly evolving and adapting to changing trends, technology and customer needs. With more than 50 menu specialists located in our state-of-the-art facility, we create, print and manufacture menus under one roof – not a single task is outsourced.
When we say we do the work, we mean it!
a brief timeline of the menu
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960–1279
ORIGINS
The first usage of menus as a list of prepared foods during China’s Song Dynasty.
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1834
COMING TO AMERICA
COMING TO AMERICA
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1930S
FOUNDATIONS
1930: Julius Ramella founds Cleveland Menu Printing Restaurant trade publications assert that the menu is an important part of dining-business strategy
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1940S
GETTING TO WORK
During WWII, restaurants use their menu covers to show their patriotism, using images of star-spangled banners, bald eagles, and VS for Victory Cleveland Menu Printing provides daily menu covers to over 200 restaurants in Cleveland
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1960S
EVOLUTION
The Apollo space program’s menu consisted of pineapple fruitcake, brownies and cereal
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1980S
TECHNOLOGY
Cleveland Menu Printing expands to the Midwest thanks to faxing and express parcel delivery
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1990S
HERE WE GROW
With the advent of email and the ability to communicate with clients across the U.S., Cleveland Menu Printing grows dramatically, especially in Florida, Texas, and Las Vegas
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1998
THE NEXT LEVEL
MenuMaker 2020, the original online menu management system, is introduced by Cleveland Menu Printing
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2017
ONWARD UPWARD
Cleveland Menu Printing updates its name to Cleveland Menu to accurately reflect that it can create, design, print and manufacture any type of menu product
CHECK OUT THE MENU-MAKING MAGIC BEHIND THE SCENES
NEED A CUSTOM MENU SOLUTION?
Contact us or visit our home page and we’ll create something together with signature white glove service