About Open Menu™

Open Menu™ will provide a single format for restaurant menus which can be easily shared, searched and used.

• No cost for restaurants
• Creating a standard for restaurant menus where no standard exists
• Menu and restaurant information stay in the control of the restaurant
• One centralized location for all restaurant menus
• Open access to menus and restaurant information given to companies/developers
• One menu to maintain, in one location, shared everywhere

What benefit is Open Menu™ to an independent restaurant?

• No cost
• No need to have a website. Menus can be stored at Open Menu
• Easily get your menu created in the Open Menu Format with our free tools
• No more out-of-date menus and restaurant information. Update a menu in one location, and it's updated everywhere downstream
• Get your accurate menu, menu items and detailed restaurant information "plugged in" to the internet
• Increase your exposure by letting an unlimited amount of websites, web applications, mobile apps and desktop apps see your menu
• Get access to powerful demographic information with respect to your menu, in your location

What benefit is Open Menu to chain restaurants?

• No cost
• No more out-of-date menus and restaurant information. Update a menu in one location, and it's updated everywhere downstream
• Get your accurate menu, menu items and detailed restaurant information "plugged in" to the internet
• Increase your exposure by letting an unlimited amount of websites, web applications, mobile apps and desktop apps see your menu
• Get access to powerful demographic information with respect to your menu
• Easily tied into your company's internal tools

Why the need for the Open Menu™?

Currently menus on restaurant websites vary in their format, Web pages, PDF documents, Word documents, or scanned images of a menu. Since the format varies this means that nobody can consistently or easily utilize the information on a menu. By providing one single, common menu specification powerful search tools can be created for locating restaurants based on information contained within a menu.

By providing a single, controlled specification for restaurant menus Open Menu™ will ensure that restaurant menus can be easily shared and used by others. From Restaurant Locators based on a menu items to tools for finding restaraunts based on what you're looking to spend, Open Menu™ will provide the foundation for such tools.

Hightlights

What makes the Open Menu™ specification standout?
One specification:	A single, consistent specification to fully and wholly describe a restaurant and its menu items.
Powerful tools:	Now that menus will be in a consistent format powerful search tools can be created using the Open Menu™ Format database.
Restaurant benefit:	Increased exposure by having your menu searchable by powerful tools which will use the Open Menu™ Database.

Online Open Menu™ Creator

Use the Online Open Menu™ Creator to quickly and easily convert your menu to an Open Menu™ Format menu.

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