“Price on 10 Sep 2026” next to every dish: what your restaurant must do by 1 October

From 1 October 2026 every price on the menu, drinks list, board and website is joined by the price from 10 September, and websites need a CSV or XML price list. What the decisions require, fines and JELO PRO.

On 10 September 2026 the Croatian Government adopted two decisions that apply from 1 October 2026 to every restaurant, konoba, pizzeria and café: the Decision on displaying an additional price and the Decision on publishing price lists of products and services, both published in the Official Gazette (Narodne novine) 101/2026 of 11 September. They cover retailers and service providers, and a restaurant's offer counts as a service: at the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts (HOK) webinar in September 2026, the answer to whether a pizza or a hamburger is a product or a service was “a service” (webinar summary, Moj Knjigovođa).

This guide walks through what the decisions require from restaurants, what remains unclear, how high the fines are, and how to do it in JELO PRO.

What appears next to the price from 1 October

The additional price, commonly called the anchor price, is the price that “applied to that product or service on 10 September 2026”. From 1 October it must be displayed “clearly, visibly and legibly next to the retail price” where the service is provided, and the decision explicitly mentions advertising as well: leaflets, posters, digital formats and websites. For a restaurant that means the menu, the drinks list, the daily board, the digital menu behind the QR code and the website.

In practice each item gets one extra line:

• Grilled sea bass, 1 kg: €62.00, Price on 10 Sep 2026: €58.00
• Fuži with truffles: €19.00, Price on 10 Sep 2026: €19.00

The second example matters: the line stays even when the price has not changed. The decision does not prescribe the word “anchor”; it is enough that the date the price refers to is clearly stated next to it.

New dishes, daily specials and promotions

The decision says nothing about a dish that was not on the menu on 10 September. At the HOK webinar the answer was to use the price from the first day the dish entered the menu, and inspection advisers recommend keeping a record of the introduction date and initial price for every such item (NIRS, September 2026). A seasonal dish that returns in October but was also on offer on 10 September carries the price it had then.

The daily board is no different from the menu: next to the price, add the price on 10 September or, for a new dish, the introduction date and price.

Two rules apply to promotions at the same time. Under the decision the additional price “does not include special forms of sale”, so the regular price from 10 September is still shown next to the reduced price. On top of that, the Consumer Protection Act already requires the lowest price in the last 30 days to be displayed with any reduction. A dish on promotion therefore carries three figures: the reduced price, the lowest in 30 days and the price on 10 September.

For prices on social media the advice from the webinar was simple: do not post them there; point guests to the menu or the website, where both prices stand side by side.

Restaurants with a website publish a price list

The second decision applies only to those who “have established websites”. A restaurant without a website has no such obligation. Those who have one publish a price list on it “in digital form, suitable for automatic processing”, as a file in XML or CSV format. A photo of the menu or a PDF does not meet that requirement.

For services the price list contains three pieces of data per item: the name of the service, the retail price with an indication of whether it is a special form of sale and what it is called, and the anchor price. A service provider updates the price list “upon every change, no later than 8:00 in the morning of the day the change is published” and keeps the published files available for 30 days. The file name is prescribed by Article VI: it includes the type of establishment, the address, the establishment code, the storage number, and the date and time of sending.

Fines and who inspects

Both decisions are based on the Act on Exceptional Price Control Measures (Narodne novine 40/25). Supervision is carried out by market inspectors of the State Inspectorate (Article 18), and the penalty provisions in Article 20 for failing to display the additional price or publish the price list provide for:

• legal entity: €3,000 to €30,000
• responsible person in a legal entity: €1,000 to €4,000
• sole trader (obrt) and self-employed person: €1,000 to €20,000

Checklist for this week

1. Save the menu and drinks list as they were on 10 September. A photo, the PDF from the printer or a dated export from the till. It is the only evidence of the anchor price you will have.
2. Write the price on 10 September next to every item, even when it equals today's price.
3. For dishes introduced after 10 September, record the introduction date and the first price.
4. Print new menus and drinks lists and agree with staff how the daily board is written.
5. If you have a website, put a CSV or XML price list on it and decide who updates it after every price change, by 8 in the morning.
6. Tell your waiters what to say to a guest who asks why there are two prices next to a dish: the second is the price from 10 September, required by a Government decision, and it is not a discount.

How it works in JELO PRO

In JELO PRO prices are entered once and the decisions are respected everywhere a guest sees them. The Menu section has a page called Prices on 10 Sep 2026 and promotions:

• Every dish and every variant has a “Price on 10 Sep 2026” column, pre-filled with the current price. You confirm it or correct it against the menu you saved.
• Larger menus are imported from a CSV or XLSX file with three columns: name, current price, price on 10 September.
• You mark a new dish as introduced after 10 September; the guest then sees “Price at introduction” with the date next to the price.
• A promotion is entered as a reduced price with a name, and the system itself adds the lowest price in the last 30 days and the price on 10 September.
• The “Price on 10 Sep 2026” line under every price is shown on the restaurant profile on jelo.hr, in the digital menu behind the QR code and on the restaurant website.
• For the tables, a PDF menu with a QR code is generated from the same entry, ready to print.
• The restaurant website built in JELO PRO publishes the price list in CSV and XML on its own, with the file name required by Article VI. Every price change creates a new file, and previous ones remain available for 30 days. The website cannot be published until the prices on 10 September have been confirmed.

The digital menu and the website are part of every package, from Start at €29 per month (price list, September 2026). If you would like us to transfer your menu before 1 October, including the prices from 10 September taken from your old menu, contact us through the form and attach the menu that was valid on 10 September.

Sources: Narodne novine 101/2026 (decisions of 10 September 2026), Act on Exceptional Price Control Measures (NN 40/25), the summary of the HOK webinar on moj-knjigovoda.hr and the NIRS article on anchor prices for the hospitality sector, all checked on 25 September 2026. This text is not legal advice; check your own case with your accountant or lawyer.