The Menu Venue combines restaurants, menus, and hours of operation into one efficient application. A robust solution for any type of menu including static menus, daily menus, weekly recurring menus, rotating menus, or specific-day menus. The Menu Venue adds in general program information to showcase your venues as well as your menus.

The Menu Venue has a webpage interface that can be linked-to on your website. Easy-to-understand calendars and user-friendly selections allow for all menus to show or just one.

Or if you wish to embed the Menu Venue in an iframe within a page on your site, the Inline extension can accommodate that.

Additionally, the Menu Venue features Hours of Operation for regular parts of the year and for alternate parts of the year (i.e., “Summer Hours”) while also permitting any restaurant to override any single-day or multi-day span.

As with all Nutrition Addition products, the Menu Venue comes with a comprehensive control panel. These tools allow you to tailor the front-end design to meet the needs of your food service operation in a custom environment:

• import menus directly from a spreadsheet
• indicate vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and organic options for any food you may serve
• set hours of operation for various day combinations and for various day-part opens and closes (i.e., Breakfast from 7am-10:30am; Lunch from 11am-2:30pm; Dinner from 4:30pm-8:30pm)

The Menu Venue App brings menu and venue information to your iPhone or Android phone. Available for your account, the app is downloaded in Apple’s App Store or through Google Play and installed on the user’s device. Then the user can browse the dozens of features available exclusively in the mobile app.

The Restaurants tab shows all of your venues optionally grouped by physical location or technical classification.

The What’s Open feature applies the hours of operation for each restaurant and applies green for open, red for closing in the next 30 minutes, and gray for closed. Units without hours of operation are left blank.

Users can also filter the restaurants by cuisine or search for foods to see where and when they will be served. For clients utilizing the Nutrition Plugin, a favorites button appears where users can mark foods at specific restaurants and meal times for easy access in the future.

And if you need to, present a broadcast message atop the restaurant list to alert customers to upcoming or spur-of-the-moment changes. And you can even target customers with different messages based on their device: iOS or Android.

On a specific restaurant’s screen, users are presented with menus front and center. An calendar row allows for future menu review while foods can be displayed with diet/allergy icons, pricing information, and descriptions. Clients with the Nutrition Plugin have the ability to tap a food for a nutritional breakdown.

Swiping the content left brings up the Hours of Operation for this restaurant showing the Regular or Alternate hours depending on which cycle you are on. Share upcoming hours changes (i.e., summer hours) before they take effect. Any single-day or multi-day overrides will also appear here.

Each restaurant screen can also feature restaurant descriptions, cuisines served, upcoming special events, and current health inspection scores.

With the Nutrition Plugin, users are able to review nutrition information for each food and build a virtual meal to calculate nutrition totals. This should assist in healthier meal planning.

The app offers two nutrition label types: USDA style and “clean.” The USDA style replicates the label seen on product packaging in stores. The clean style label streamlines the data showing either grams/milligrams or percent daily values with a tap on the screen.

The Remote Ordering Plugin allows you to turn your app into an mobile ordering platform.

With your menus already in the system accurately reflecting what you are serving, customers can easily select a restaurant, customize orders with toppings/condiments, add items to their order, and place an order as they arrive at the unit.

As part of the system, your staff uses the kitchen preparation app to review the preparation queue, or you can opt to utilize a receipt printer that prints an order upon customer placement. Staff begins preparing the order, and when complete, the kitchen staff acknowledge finalization in the preparation app which then sends a push alert to the customer.

The Remote Ordering Plugin offers a wide range of customization options.

• Offer ordering at all or just specific units.
• Temporarily suspend ordering when needed.
• Use immediate preparation or schedule pickups for specific blocks of time.
• Various currencies: money (with or without sales tax), points, meal plan (entrees/sides).
• Organize how toppings/condiments are presented to the customer vs. how they are shown to the kitchen.
• Customize your messaging in various places within the app.
• Require customers be in close proximity to the unit before an order can be placed.

This is just a sample of how you can make ordering work for your specific operation. We continue to add more features to adapt the app so that it interfaces and/or integrates with your current systems. And if you need a custom feature, we can likely produce that for you.

Extra features can be housed in the More section:

• Show all of your restaurants on a single map
• List all restaurants’ hours of operation on a single screen
• Include news stories and any upcoming changes to your program
• Present your social media pages for users to follow you
• Show a special events calendar for upcoming promotions
• Display the most recent health inspections across all your units

Need to link to another webpage? How about configuring a page of information that might be useful to customers? That can be arranged too. Create as many pages or link to third-party pages as necessary.

And if you can think of a feature that would be useful to your food service operation, let us know. We might be able to incorporate it into the app!

Clients that desire to include nutrition information with their menus can bring the Nutrition Calculator into the Menu Venue with the Nutrition plugin.

The web-based front-end underlines foods with nutrition information, and users can review nutrition data, diet/allergy information, and ingredients. You have control of this information and can use the same food (i.e., the same nutrition information) across multiple restaurants at various meal times.

The Menu Venue has been developed to be responsive to different screen sizes. Built on the bootstrap mobile-first responsive framework, users of phones and tablets will have as functional an experience as users of desktops.

Since the Menu Venue lives on the Nutrition Addition servers, we offer you the ability to customize its appearance. Each client has the ability to choose a custom header graphic and a custom background color to match your own website. Additionally, we offer a “super header” zone where you can prepend design elements that may be integral to your site’s design.