About OpenMenu
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OpenMenu provides a single format for restaurant menus which can be easily shared, searched and used. We are creating a standard for restaurant menus where no standard exists
Using the OpenMenu Registrar system you can be assured that your menu and restaurant information stays in your control.
- No cost*
- Menu and restaurant information stay in your control
- OpenMenu Registrars means you're not tied to one website to manage your restaurants menu. Once on the OpenMenu Platform, go to any OpenMenu Registrar to maintain your menu
- One menu to maintain, in one location, shared everywhere opening up a centralized location for all restaurant menus
- Increase your exposure by letting an unlimited amount of websites, web applications, mobile apps and desktop apps see your menu - all OpenMenus available to developers/companies
- Easily get your OpenMenu using our free OpenMenu Creator and benefit from our solutions
- No need to have a website. Menus are stored at OpenMenu (or one of our Registrars)
- Restaurant Chains: Easily tied into your company's internal tools as you become a Private OpenMenu Registrar
- Restaurant Chains: Regulate the distribution of your chains information down to the menu level
* no cost for managing one restaurant through our OpenMenu Creator.
Why the need for OpenMenu?
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 OpenMenu™ 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, OpenMenu™ will provide the foundation for such tools.
Highlights
| What makes the OpenMenu™ 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 OpenMenu™ Database. |
| Better Regulation: | The OpenMenu Registrars ensure better control and regulation of your restaurant's menu. |
| Restaurant benefit: | Increased exposure by having your menu searchable by powerful tools which will use the OpenMenu Platform. |
The next step for restaurants
Good - Traditional marketing through print media and reach thousands of people
Great - Get a website and promote yourself through search engines and restaurant review websites and reach 100's of thousands of people
Excellent - Setup your OpenMenu and let an infinite amount of websites, web applications, mobile apps and desktop apps see your menu and reach millions of people