USMenuz is a free guide to US restaurant menus: prices, calories, nutrition, allergens, hours, deals and copycat recipes. This page explains exactly where our numbers come from, how we check them and how we fix mistakes.
What we publish
- Restaurant pages: menus with sizes and prices, nutrition, allergens, typical and holiday hours, and quick answers to common questions.
- Menu item pages for popular items, with full nutrition facts, allergens and similar items to compare.
- Lists and tools (meal builder, calorie finder, price compare, allergen filter, feed-the-family). They are built from the same data. Sorting and rankings are done by the numbers (price, calories, protein), never by who pays us.
- Deals with start and end dates.
- Copycat recipes: our own home versions of popular restaurant items.
- Guides: articles that answer real questions with our data, such as the cheapest breakfast or the highest-protein meals.
We cover national chains and local restaurants. Every restaurant is listed for free. Nobody can pay to be listed, or to be listed higher.
Where prices come from
Restaurant prices are different in every city and change often, and most chains do not publish one national price list. So every price on USMenuz comes from one of these sources, and the page says which city it is from and the date it was checked:
- the restaurant’s own app or website, for one named location;
- the menu board, printed menu or a receipt at a named location;
- a menu sent to us by the restaurant’s owner or manager (checked before it goes live);
- a reader’s price report that we confirmed.
We do not copy prices from other menu-price websites, and we never guess or invent a price. If we do not have a checked price, the item is shown without one.
Where nutrition and allergens come from
Calories, protein, carbs, fat, sodium, sugar, fiber and allergens come from each restaurant’s own published nutrition and allergen information (usually a nutrition guide or page on their website). For local restaurants that do not publish nutrition facts, we show the menu and prices only. We never estimate nutrition and present it as official.
Allergen information covers the nine major US allergens: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy and sesame. Restaurants warn that cross-contact can happen in their kitchens, and so do we.
Where restaurant details come from
Names, addresses, websites and opening hours come from the restaurant itself (website, app, sign or owner), from public map data such as OpenStreetMap (credited as “© OpenStreetMap contributors”), and from reader reports we confirmed. Holiday hours are typical hours; individual locations can differ.
What “Checked” means
The green Checked date on a page is the last day a person compared that information with its source. We only change that date when we actually checked again. Changing the design of a page, or fixing a typo, does not change it.
How we check and approve
New information never goes straight onto the site. Menu imports, menus sent by owners and reader reports all go into a review queue first. An editor checks them against the source and approves them. When an import changes a price, our system shows the old and the new price side by side (for example “$2.29 → $2.49”) before anything is saved.
We aim to re-check prices for chains every one to two months, and sooner when a reader tells us something changed.
Copycat recipes
Our copycat recipes are our own versions, written to taste close to the restaurant item. They are not official recipes and are not made, approved or endorsed by the restaurant. The nutrition shown for a recipe is for our home version, and it is different from the restaurant’s item.
Health and diet content
Our healthy-eating pages help you compare menu items by calories, protein, sodium and similar numbers. Labels like “High protein” or “Under 500 calories” follow fixed rules that we show on the page (for example “25 g of protein or more”). We do not make medical claims, promise weight loss or recommend supplements. Nothing on USMenuz replaces advice from your doctor or a registered dietitian. If a qualified expert ever reviews a page, their name and the review date are shown on it.
Use of AI and automation
We use software, including AI tools, to help us read official nutrition documents, turn menus into tables, spot price changes and draft articles. A person checks every number and every article before it is published. AI is never used to invent prices, nutrition facts, reviews or quotes.
Ads, sponsors and independence
USMenuz is free because of advertising. Ads and sponsored content are always labeled “Advertisement” or “Sponsored”. Advertisers and restaurants cannot pay to change a price, a nutrition number, a ranking or what we write. Paid placement never decides the order of a list. We do not accept ads for adult content, gambling, tobacco, vaping, weapons, or misleading health products.
Corrections
If you find a wrong price, a missing item, wrong hours or anything else, please tell us:
- use the Report a price button on any menu page, or
- use the contact form, or email hello@usmenuz.com.
We review every report. When something was wrong, we fix it and update the Checked date. Restaurant owners can update their own menu for free on the Add your menu page.
Contact
USMenuz
1605 Renaissance Way
Tampa, FL 33602
hello@usmenuz.com