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You run a restaurant in Phoenix: put your dishes in English and Spanish

Phoenix counted 1,665,481 residents in July 2025, and 35.9% of those aged five and over speak a language other than English at home. Menyu can put your dish names in Spanish next to the English, with prices in dollars once you choose that currency in the settings.

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Café table on a sunny Phoenix patio with a red QR code stand, fry bread topped with beans and green chiles, an agave cocktail and prickly pear in terracotta planters
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Key facts

Phoenix in figures

residents on July 1, 2025, the fifth-largest city population in the United States12
1,665,481
of residents aged five and over speak a language other than English at home (2020–2024)2
35.9%
of Phoenix residents are Hispanic or Latino2
42.0%
passengers through Phoenix Sky Harbor in 2024, the airport’s busiest year so far3
52,325,266

Growth

Still the fifth-largest city, still building

On July 1, 2025, Phoenix had 1,665,481 residents, fifth among US cities after New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston, and 3.6% more than its April 2020 base.12

Maricopa County, where the City records its right-of-way permits, gained about 42,000 housing units between 2024 and 2025, more than any other US county for the second year running. Arizona’s housing stock grew 2.0% over the year, second only to Idaho’s.14

For your menu

New neighbors look a restaurant up on their phone before they walk in; the menu they find there should be the one you serve tonight.

Visitors and languages

More than a third speak another language at home

Between 2020 and 2024, 35.9% of Phoenix residents aged five and over spoke a language other than English at home, and 19.0% were born outside the United States.2

Census figures put the Hispanic or Latino share of the city at 42.0%.2

For your menu

With more than a third of residents speaking another language at home, some of your guests will read a dish name faster in their first language than in English.

Economy

Sky Harbor’s record year

Phoenix Sky Harbor counted 52,325,266 passengers in 2024, its busiest year so far and 7.5% more than in 2023. The City puts the annual economic impact of its airport system at $44.3 billion.3

Air France began nonstop flights to Paris in May 2024 and made them year-round; American added Tijuana and more flights to Cancún and Puerto Vallarta, and the City announced AeroMexico’s return with nonstops to Mexico City from March 30, 2025.3

For your menu

Each new route brings guests who may prefer to read your dishes in Spanish or in French.

Local food

Eighteen MICHELIN picks around Phoenix

The MICHELIN Guide lists 18 restaurants for Phoenix and its surroundings: 7 Bib Gourmands and 11 selected restaurants. Thirteen are in Phoenix itself, the others in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley.5

The guide’s filters show vegetarian options at 14 of the 18, gluten-free options at 12 and vegan options at 10. In the Melrose neighborhood, Cecelia Miller of the Tohono O’odham Nation runs Fry Bread House, devoted to fry bread, a Native American dish of fried dough.56

The guide’s 2026 Southwest Young Chef Award went to René Andrade, who cooks at two of the Phoenix picks, Bacanora and Huarachis.7

For your menu

When most of the guide’s Phoenix picks flag vegetarian and gluten-free options, guests expect to spot yours on the menu without asking.

Local rules

Awnings and fences on the sidewalk: the revocable permit

The City of Phoenix treats fences, awnings, overhangs and small temporary structures without foundation on the public right-of-way as “minor encroachments”. The Street Transportation Department allows them through a revocable permit, and their use must also match the zoning rules that Planning and Development checks.48

Applications are reviewed case by case, in about 15 business days. The application fee is $1,000 for most uses and $100 for a few, among them a use of the right-of-way that a zoning ordinance requires. An annual use fee is invoiced every year, liability insurance must name the City as additional insured, and a new owner needs a new permit.48

Requests go to [email protected], or to the Street Transportation Department, Encroachments, 200 West Washington Street, 5th floor.4

For your menu

Plan the permit before the awning: review takes about three weeks, and most uses cost $1,000 plus a yearly fee.

Seasons and events

Phoenix stays on standard time all year

Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, except on the Navajo Indian Reservation, so Phoenix keeps Mountain Standard Time (UTC−7) all year: timeanddate.com showed it on October 21, 2026, and shows the same offset for December 15, 2026.91011

For your menu

In Menyu’s settings, choose America/Phoenix, a zone with no daylight saving time: the opening hours on your menu then stay right in summer and in winter.

With Menyu

What Menyu can do for a Phoenix menu today

Menyu publishes your menu at an address that never changes, behind a QR code in your colors. For a Phoenix restaurant, choose US dollars and the America/Phoenix time zone in the settings: prices show in dollars and opening hours follow Phoenix time. The opening status still reads in French, and guests cannot pay online.

  • Dish names in Spanish next to the English

    Menyu translates your dish names and descriptions into 25 languages, Spanish among them, and you run it all from a dashboard in English. The translation is automatic, so read it before you publish. The menu’s own buttons stay in English.

    • Dishes in 25 languages, Spanish included, to reviewIncluded
    • Dashboard in English or FrenchIncluded
    See what a Menyu menu does

  • Vegetarian or gluten-free, filtered by the guest

    Guests can filter your menu for vegetarian dishes or leave out the allergens they choose. Each dish also carries allergen tags, taken from the EU list of 14 rather than the nine major food allergens of US law, so check them against the US list before you rely on them.

    • A vegetarian filter and one for each of the 14 allergensIncluded
    • Allergen tags from the EU list of 14Included
    Read the US allergen rules

  • One code on the patio, edits from your phone

    The QR code opens an address that does not change, so a dish you swap in the morning is on the menu by dinner without reprinting anything. The code takes your colors and logo. Keep the printed menu for guests who prefer paper; on the Menyu page, prices display in dollars once you set that currency in the settings.

    • A fixed QR code, a menu you edit at any timeIncluded
    • QR code in your colors, with your logoIncluded
    • Prices in US dollars, set in the settingsIncluded
    Make my menu QR code

Limits

What Menyu does not do

  • The opening status follows Phoenix time but reads in French only (“Ouvert · Jusqu’à…”), even on an English menu; the buttons exist in English and French.
  • Allergen tags follow the EU list of 14, not the nine major food allergens named by US law.
  • Online payment accounts can only be opened in France, so a Phoenix restaurant cannot take payment through Menyu.
  • The optional phone field at sign-up expects a ten-digit French number. A Phoenix number will not fit, so leave the field empty.
  • Plans are billed in euros, even when the menu is priced in dollars.

According to the guides

Six Phoenix addresses from the MICHELIN Guide, from fry bread to wood-fired Sonoran plates

All six are in the MICHELIN Guide’s current selection for Phoenix and its surroundings: four Bib Gourmands and two selected restaurants, at prices from $$ to $$$$. Two of them share a chef, René Andrade.

These restaurants are not Menyu customers and were not approached. The list comes from the MICHELIN Guide; on October 21, 2026, each one’s website showed its hours, menu, ordering or bookings.

  1. Pizzeria Bianco

    Heritage Square, downtown Phoenix1213 · Pizza · $$

    • Bib Gourmand 202613

    Chris Bianco opened the first Pizzeria Bianco in 1988, in the back corner of a Phoenix grocery store; the Rosa, with red onions, Parmigiano Reggiano, local pistachios and rosemary, is a longstanding favorite.1213

    MICHELIN Guide listingRestaurant website12

  2. Huarachis Taqueria

    North Central Avenue14 · Mexican · $$

    • Bib Gourmand 202614

    A carnitas platter comes family-style with house-made flour tortillas, and the kitchen cooks over wood fire with mesquite, native chiles and desert herbs.14

    MICHELIN Guide listingRestaurant website15

  3. Fry Bread House

    Melrose neighborhood, north of downtown6 · American, regional cuisine · $$

    • MICHELIN Guide selection 202656

    Fry bread comes topped with refried beans, green chiles, sour cream and cheese, next to a red chili beef stew, and again at dessert with cinnamon sugar.6

    MICHELIN Guide listingRestaurant website16

  4. Lom Wong

    Downtown Phoenix, next to the Cambria Hotel1718 · Thai · $$$

    • Bib Gourmand 202617

    After years as a pop-up, Alex and Yotaka “Sunny” Martin serve regional Thai dishes family-style, from hand-pounded curries to fresh coconut milk.17

    MICHELIN Guide listingRestaurant website18

  5. Bacanora

    Grand Avenue neighborhood7 · Mexican, Sonoran · $$$$

    • MICHELIN Guide selection 202657

    René Andrade cooks Sonoran food over wood fire here and won the guide’s 2026 Southwest Young Chef Award; the ember-roasted elote is a house staple.7

    MICHELIN Guide listingRestaurant website19

Questions

Questions and answers

Can a Phoenix restaurant use Menyu today?

Yes, with limits. The menu itself works: dishes in up to 25 languages, Spanish included, behind a QR code you never reprint, with prices in dollars and opening hours on Phoenix time once you choose both in the settings.

Some of the business side still does not fit: payment accounts open only in France, the opening status reads in French, the phone field at sign-up expects a French number, and the subscription is billed in euros.

Do I need a permit for an awning or a fence on the sidewalk in Phoenix?

Yes, when it sits on or over the public right-of-way. The Street Transportation Department counts fences, awnings, overhangs and small temporary structures without foundation as minor encroachments that need a revocable permit, reviewed in about 15 business days.

The application fee is $1,000 for most uses, with an annual use fee and liability insurance on top. Write to [email protected].48

Should my Phoenix menu have a Spanish version?

Census figures give 35.9% of residents aged five and over speaking a language other than English at home, and a Hispanic or Latino share of 42.0%. A Spanish version serves part of that audience.

Menyu translates dish names and descriptions into 25 languages, Spanish included; review the result before you publish. The buttons around your dishes stay in English, and the opening status shows in French.2

Do Menyu’s allergen tags match the US list?

No. The FDA names nine major food allergens: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame. Menyu uses the EU list of 14, where wheat sits under cereals containing gluten.

The national rules are on the United States page.2223

US menu rules
What does Menyu cost, and in which currency?

Every plan is billed in euros, even when your menu shows prices in dollars: Essentiel at €49 a month, Premium at €79 and Beyond at €149. The seven-day trial is on Essentiel.

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Are the Phoenix restaurants on this page Menyu customers?

No. They come from the MICHELIN Guide’s 18 restaurants for Phoenix and its surroundings, and we did not contact them. Each entry links to its source.5

Method

How this page was made

Written by the Menyu team, a publisher based in Montpellier, France, from the pages cited, read on October 21, 2026, and on October 22 for NIST: the U.S. Census Bureau, the City of Phoenix, the MICHELIN Guide, the FDA, NIST, EUR-Lex, timeanddate.com and the restaurants’ own websites. Menyu handles dollars and Phoenix time through its settings, but not US phone numbers or online payment; this page describes the product as it stood on October 22, 2026. The restaurants listed are not Menyu customers. The illustration is AI-generated and shows no real place.

Sources

  1. U.S. Census Bureau, Population Growth Holds Steady in Midsized Cities Amid Widespread Slowdowncensus.gov · accessed October 21, 2026

  2. U.S. Census Bureau, QuickFacts: Phoenix city, Arizona; Philadelphia city, Pennsylvania; San Antonio city, Texascensus.gov · accessed October 21, 2026

  3. City of Phoenix, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Surpasses Passenger Recordphoenix.gov · accessed October 21, 2026

  4. City of Phoenix, Street Transportation Department, Revocable Permit: Application, Procedures and Requirements (2026)phoenix.gov · accessed October 21, 2026

  5. MICHELIN Guide, Phoenix MICHELIN Restaurantsguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  6. MICHELIN Guide, Fry Bread House, Phoenixguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  7. MICHELIN Guide, Bacanora, Phoenixguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  8. City of Phoenix, Street Transportation Department, Special Permits and Maintenance Agreement Informationphoenix.gov · accessed October 21, 2026

  9. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Daylight Saving Time Rulesnist.gov · accessed October 22, 2026

  10. timeanddate.com, Time Zone Converter, Paris and Phoenix, October 21, 2026timeanddate.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  11. timeanddate.com, Time Zone Converter, Paris and Phoenix, December 15, 2026timeanddate.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  12. Pizzeria Bianco, Official website of Pizzeria Biancopizzeriabianco.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  13. MICHELIN Guide, Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenixguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  14. MICHELIN Guide, Huarachis Taqueria, Phoenixguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  15. Huarachis Taqueria, Official website of Huarachis Taqueriahuarachis.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  16. Fry Bread House, Official website of Fry Bread Houseazfrybreadhouse.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  17. MICHELIN Guide, Lom Wong, Phoenixguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  18. Lom Wong, Official website of Lom Wonglomwongaz.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  19. Bacanora, Official website of Bacanorabacanoraphx.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  20. Little Miss BBQ, Official website of Little Miss BBQlittlemissbbq.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  21. MICHELIN Guide, Little Miss BBQ, Phoenixguide.michelin.com · accessed October 21, 2026

  22. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food Allergiesfda.gov · accessed October 21, 2026

  23. EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, consolidated text of April 1, 2025eur-lex.europa.eu · accessed October 21, 2026