2024/12/02
Enhancing Multilingual Dining at the 2024 National Bank Open with QR Translator
At the 2024 National Bank Open (NBO) in Montreal and Toronto, visitors enjoyed both top-level tennis and delicious food from Toronto’s catering company, Marigolds & Onions. Known for their creativity and great service, Marigolds & Onions served a diverse, international visitors looking for a high-quality dining experience. To meet the language needs of this global event, they used QR Translator, making communication smooth and satisfying for all guests.
As an event that attracts tennis fans from around the world, the National Bank Open needed an inclusive and thoughtful service approach. Marigolds & Onions decided to impliment QR Translator to offer guests easy access to translated menus and food details in multiple languages through their smartphones.
By scanning a QR code, visitors could quickly view digital menus in their preferred language. This action removed language barriers, made the dining experience smoother, and highlighted the caterer’s commitment to high-quality service.
Using QR Translator improved the event experience. Visitors felt appreciated and well-served, no matter their language. This enhanced customer service showed Marigolds & Onions’ dedication to inclusivity and innovation, raising the standard for large event catering. QR Translator also made organizing easier and supported eco-friendly practices by reducing the need for printed multilingual materials.
Sixteen such QR codes were placed throughout the public area where their food stands were. Each QR code will contain information in 15 languages: English (original), Spanish, Persian, Arabic, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tamil, Tagalog, Urdu, Chinese (simplified), and Chinese (traditional). Text-to-Speech is also included.
The successful use of QR Translator at the National Bank Open showed how technology can improve event services. Marigolds & Onions combined tradition with innovation, and QR Translator proved to be a key tool for making global experiences easy for everyone. This partnership sets a great example and points to a bright future for multilingual event catering.
Experience how QR Translator can transform multilingual communication at your events—where clarity, convenience, and customer satisfaction come first. QR Translator is breaking language barriers around the world.
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Marigolds and Onions is a premier catering and event production company based in Toronto, Canada, with over 25 years of experience serving more than 50,000 people annually. They offer customized event catering for diverse occasions, including weddings, corporate events, and private gatherings. Their services feature globally inspired cuisine options, including specialized menus like vegan, gluten-free, and Halal.
QR Translator is a web service developed by PIJIN Co., Ltd..
Founded as a start-up company in 2011, PIJIN carries on its mission to free the world from language barriers while preserving cultural and linguistic diversity. PIJIN holds patents for QR Translator in Japan, China, Korea, the EU and others.
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Initially, you can choose from 43 languages when adding pages (translations) to your QR codes. These languages also support Text to Speech.
Language | Language Code |
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Arabic | ar |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bengali | bn |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-CN |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-TW |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Dutch | nl |
English | en |
Filipino | tl |
Finnish | fi |
French | fr |
Greek | el |
Hebrew | he |
Hindi | hi |
Hungarian | hu |
Indonesian | id |
Italian | it |
Japanese | ja |
Khmer | km |
Korean | ko |
Lao | lo |
Latvian | lv |
Lithuanian | lt |
Malay | ms |
Mongolian | mn |
Myanmar (Burmese) | my |
Nepali | ne |
Norwegian | no |
Persian | fa |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese | pt |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Slovak | sk |
Spanish | es |
Swedish | sv |
Thai | th |
Turkish | tr |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Vietnamese | vi |
In addition to the default language options, you can expand your language palette with custom languages.
The languages listed below are machine translation supported, and can easily be added to your language palette.
Language | Language Code |
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Afrikaans | af |
Akan | ak |
Albanian | sq |
Amharic | am |
Armenian | hy |
Assamese | as |
Aymara | ay |
Bambara | bm |
Basque | eu |
Belarusian | be |
Bhojpuri | bho |
Bosnian | bs |
Bulgarian | bg |
Catalan | ca |
Cebuano | ceb |
Chichewa | ny |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh |
Corsican | co |
Croatian | hr |
Divehi | dv |
Dogri | doi |
Esperanto | eo |
Estonian | et |
Ewe | ee |
Frisian | fy |
Galician | gl |
Ganda | lg |
Georgian | ka |
Goan Konkani | gom |
Guarani | gn |
Gujarati | gu |
Haitian Creole | ht |
Hausa | ha |
Hawaiian | haw |
Hebrew | iw |
Hmong | hmn |
Icelandic | is |
Igbo | ig |
Iloko | ilo |
Irish | ga |
Javanese | jw |
Javanese | jv |
Kannada | kn |
Kazakh | kk |
Kinyarwanda | rw |
Krio | kri |
Kurdish (Kurmanji) | ku |
Kurdish (Sorani) | ckb |
Kyrgyz | ky |
Latin | la |
Lingala | ln |
Luxembourgish | lb |
Macedonian | mk |
Maithili | mai |
Malagasy | mg |
Malayalam | ml |
Maltese | mt |
Meiteilon (Manipuri) | mni-Mtei |
Maori | mi |
Marathi | mr |
Mizo | lus |
Northern Sotho | nso |
Odia (Oriya) | or |
Oromo | om |
Pashto | ps |
Punjabi | pa |
Quechua | qu |
Samoan | sm |
Sanskrit | sa |
Scots Gaelic | gd |
Serbian | sr |
Sesotho | st |
Shona | sn |
Sindhi | sd |
Sinhala | si |
Slovenian | sl |
Somali | so |
Sundanese | su |
Swahili | sw |
Tajik | tg |
Tamil | ta |
Tatar | tt |
Telugu | te |
Tigrinya | ti |
Tsonga | ts |
Turkmen | tk |
Uyghur | ug |
Uzbek | uz |
Welsh | cy |
Xhosa | xh |
Yiddish | yi |
Yoruba | yo |
Zulu | zu |
Even if machine translation is not available for a language, you can still create a custom language for it.
When you add the language to a QR code, a blank page will be generated, and you can manually add your own text.