Menupoly is a new food discovery and recommendation platform. It helps people discover great dishes around them by making restaurant menus visual and searchable.

Yes. You can do searches by either food/cuisine name or restaurant name.

Menupoly gives you food search results (with photos) when you do searches by food/cuisine name, whereas on Google or Yelp the search results are always restaurant names even when you do searches by food name. For example, when you search "Steak Salad" on Menupoly, the search results include all steak salads in the search area with their photos. The user can quickly browse through all steak salads and sort/filter results to quickly compare available options to decide which one to eat.

Menupoly concept novelty is based on two pillars:
1) Food search capability: We provide a list of food options (not restaurants) when you search food, with photos. That helps users search and find good eats per their craving.
2) Menu visualization: We make restaurant menus visual with good-quality food pictures to help people rule out the guesswork and quickly see what they would get, when trying new restaurants.
Our food search and listing capability makes our platform one with a focus on food. That provides several other advantages:
A) Users can “rate” each food item on restaurant menus by Menupoly “like” mechanism. By comparing number of likes, people can quickly distinguish popular food items from others or easily find out what top dishes are in any restaurant menu.
B) Menupoly can recommend specific food dishes to restaurant goers to try, based on users’ like history and their background and other preferences. In most restaurants, the odds are high that you get disappointed if you don’t know what is good there to order. Therefore, it would be very helpful to recommend people specific dish name(s) to try rather than simply suggest a restaurant name and leave them wondering what to order to avoid regret.

No, Menupoly do not rate restaurants or let users rate restaurants at this point. We believe food quality and taste is the most important component affecting customer satisfaction during a restaurant experience. We let users “like” their favorite food and that serves as a good mechanism to receive customer feedback on restaurant food items.

Yes. You can filter food search results by geographic area, cuisine, price range, calorie count, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, promotions, and certain restaurant characteristics. Moreover, you can sort search results by relevancy, price, name, likes, new items first, and promotions first.

No. Menupoly does not support writing reviews. However, users can “like” food and people can quickly figure out popular dishes in any restaurant or area by comparing numbers of associated food likes.

Each restaurant menu is presented in two ways on Menupoly: a) List view: All food items and menu categories are vertically listed on the screen. Users can scroll up/down to see the thumbnail photo and information associated to each food b) Photo strip view: This view is like a photo gallery since it shows big photos of food items and let users quickly browse food photos.

List view is good for seeing the whole menu in a single page to get an overview of what restaurant offers on its menu. Photo strip view provides better menu visualization interface by showing big food photos.

Yes, they are real. We ask restaurants to prepare food for photo shooting in the same way that they are served to customers. So our goal is to make each photo represent the actual served food as much as possible. However, photos are for illustrative purposes only and actual food may differ slightly in appearance.

None. Menupoly is free for all public users. Menupoly charges restaurant businesses for using the platform and services.

You can submit an issue report on the affected restaurant page.

Wish list is a personal list for each Menupoly user to keep track of food that one finds on Menupoly and wishes to try them later. Users can easily add/remove food names to/from their wish list

Menupoly lets restaurants offer promotions on any item of their menu. Users can easily find those promotions by setting promotion filter in their search criteria.

No. All food promotions are created by their respective restaurant businesses.

The restaurant and menu information are updated by restaurants. Each restaurant has access to its business and menu information on Menupoly to do updates.

The food that are new or on promotion would be displayed by default if no food/cuisine name is entered in the search box.

All food information is provided by restaurants. We rely on restaurants on accuracy of the presented information, e.g. ingredients, calorie count, gluten-free, vegetarian, etc.

We categorize food prices into three ranges. Each symbol represents one price range: $ = <$10, $$=$10 - $24.99, $$$=$25+

Food items added to Menupoly are considered as “New” for 60 days. The purpose is to show the interested users the food that restaurants newly added to their menus.

You can submit a complaint and report your issue to the restaurant business in Menupoly. All complaints and reports are directly submitted to the restaurants. Click on report symbol in the menu list view of each restaurant to submit a complaint for that restaurant.

Restaurants have the option of making an item on the menu “not available” for a period of time for various reasons, e.g. running out of material.

Restaurant operation hours and/or time-limited menus affect availability of food at the time of your search. If a Mexican restaurant is closed on Mondays and you are searching for Mexican food on a Monday, all food from that restaurant will be tagged as Currently Unavailable. That's also the case if you search for an item on a restaurant dinner menu at noon. So "currently unavailable" shows that food is not available at the time of your search because the restaurant is closed at that time or the search item belongs to a time-limited menu like brunch menu. On the other hand, "NOT AVAILABLE until further notice" shows that restaurant has temporarily stopped serving that item.

Yes, all food, restaurant, or any other photos on Menupoly are protected by copyright laws. No printing, reproducing, or use of photos in electronic or print format in electronic or print documents or website are permitted without permission from the copyright owner.

For website users, you need to log into your Menupoly account first and then click on your profile photo to view or edit your like list and wish list. For mobile app users, you need to log into your Menupoly account first and then open the top burger menu icon to access like list and wish list options.

You must give permission to Menupoly to access your location information in your browser or mobile app settings prior to using “Current Location” option.

No Results Found is displayed in the following scenarios:
- Food or restaurant spelling is incorrect
- You chose “Current Location” for searching and you are in an area that Menupoly is not covering.
- You selected certain search filters such that no results that meet the criteria were found.

Check In feature is only available on devices connected to cellular networks.

You cannot do a successful check in if any of following conditions is true:
- You are not physically present at the restaurant location.
- You try to check in when restaurant is closed.
- You have already checked in at the same restaurant in the past 4 hours
- You have already checked in at any location in the past 1 hour.

You can earn points for successful check-in’s at participating restaurants. Only the first two check-in’s in each day are eligible for points. The number of points earned varies by restaurant point grade, and diversity and frequency of your check-ins. Restaurant point grade is denoted by a circular icon on check in button on restaurant page in Menupoly. You will also accumulate points when you like, added to wish list, or share a food on Menupoly. Only the first two likes/add to wish list/shares in each day are eligible for points. One full circle () gets you 50 points for every new location check in, 10 points if you check in a location that you previously checked in the past 7 days, 4 points if you check in a location that you already checked on the same day, 2 points for every like or add to wish list, and 4 points for each share. A semi-circle () gets you half the points mentioned above for full circle.

Yes, your points will expire and be automatically reset to zero if you do not earn any points in any 365-day period.

You can see your points and expiration date on Check in History page.

You can redeem points for rewards at certain point thresholds. 6000 points makes you eligible to receive a $50 gift card in exchange for your point. 20000 points gets you a $200 gift card in exchange for your points. Point redemption thresholds, reward values, and terms and conditions are subject to change and updates.

Menupoly supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari web browsers.