Food menu items are food dishes and beverages available on a menu for purchase as served options. For example a plate of salad or a glass of fruit juice.
Common menu types
- A La Carte Menu – this menu lists the prices for each item separately. While the prices tend to be higher, a la carte menus have more flexibility. Customers can choose individual items and combine them any way they want.
- Du Jour menu – this menu changes daily, depending on what’s available or what the chef prepared. So, “chicken du jour” means the chicken that’s available today. Likewise, “soup du jour” is the soup that’s available today.
- Cycle menu – this is a menu or part of a menu that has repeated options over a specific period of time. The cycle menu definition is fairly intuitive given its name. Think of a sandwich shop that offers a certain sandwich on Monday. Then another sandwich on Tuesday. And so on for the rest of the week. If they stick to those sandwiches on those days and repeat that week after week, it’s a cycle menu.
- Static menu - a larger menu, typically divided into categories, that doesn’t change very often. It’s the most widely used menu today, and it’s what you likely think of when you think of menus.
- Fixed menu - This menu can be confused with the static menu because the words, outside of the context of menu names, are similar. But, unlike a static menu, a fixed menu has few options and a fixed total price.
In a restaurant, the menu is a list of food and beverages offered to customers and the prices. A menu may be à la carte – which presents a list of options from which customers choose – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is offered.
Menu Types
- À La Carte. In French, à la carte literally means "by the menu". ...
- Du Jour Menu. Du jour means "of the day", and the term isn't limited to soups or cocktails
- Cycle Menu
- Prix Fixe Menu
- Table d'hôte
- Beverage Menu
- Dessert Menu
- Wine Captain's Books
Online ordering systems operate similarly to an online takeaway. Your customer orders online complete their payment and can then get their food delivered or pick it up at your store. The ordering process is easy: Your customer browses your online menu on their laptop or mobile phone.
Main Dish Recipes Examples
- Creamy Tomato Pasta.
- Baked Honey Mustard Chicken
- Red and White Tortellini
- Classic Meatloaf
- Pot Roast
- Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings
- Honey Orange Fish Fillets
A drink menu can be used to sell your nonalcoholic offerings as well, like fresh juice blends, virgin cocktails or even flavoured sodas. Designated drivers, children and expectant mothers will thrill at being included in selecting and ordering a special drink.
A beverage menu is any menu or section of a menu that sells alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. It can be a static, du jour, or cycle menu. Beverage menus are typically not a la carte menus. A digital wine list is a good example of the various menus out there.