Menupedia exists for a simple reason: when you want to know what a restaurant serves and what it costs, you should be able to find out in fifteen seconds — without scrolling through a dozen pop-ups, signing in to an app, or guessing whether the menu you found is current.
Menupedia is a public, free reference that documents the menus of American restaurants — from national fast-food chains and coffee shops to bakeries, casual sit-downs and steakhouses. Each restaurant gets a single comprehensive page that covers its categories, item descriptions, prices where we can verify them, dietary and allergen flags, signature items, locations, and the questions people actually ask before ordering.
We organize by cuisine first and by city second. We don't run promotions, we don't accept payment for placement, and we don't decide what's "best" — we just describe what restaurants serve, in plain American English, with the date the data was last reviewed.
Every restaurant page is built from publicly available sources — primarily the restaurant's own website, including its menu pages, About / Locations pages and any nutrition documents the brand publishes. When a price is published as a range (common for café drinks where size affects cost), we preserve the range rather than flatten it to a single number. When we cannot verify a price, we keep the item but omit the price — better to be incomplete than to invent.
Each page carries a "Menu data reviewed" date. Restaurant prices change, items rotate seasonally, and regional menus differ — please always confirm with the official restaurant before ordering, especially for allergens and nutrition.
Menus aren't static. Items get added, prices creep up, regional tests appear and disappear. We periodically re-fetch every restaurant's page and revise the listings. The footer of every page shows when its menu data was last reviewed.
If you spot a price that's wrong, an item we've missed, or a location that's closed, we'd genuinely like to know. Send us a note and we'll fix it on the next pass.
Menupedia is built as a static reference — every page is plain HTML, no tracking pixels beyond what's strictly needed, no autoplay, no pop-ups. The aim is for the page to load fast and stay readable for years.