OpenMenu

OpenMenu — structured menu data and publishing API built on the OpenMenu Format.

OpenMenu provides structured restaurant and menu data through a public REST API (v2.2) built on the open OpenMenu Format specification. Standard endpoints cover search, restaurant profiles, location listings, deals, and ingredients, returning menu items with prices, locations, dietary attributes (vegetarian, vegan, kosher, halal, gluten-free), and allergen information. An Enhanced enterprise tier adds DishDNA machine-learning analysis, trends, heatmaps, and gap analysis.

• Website: https://openmenu.com/
• API: https://openmenu.com/api/
• Documentation: https://www.openmenu.com/api/docs/
• Base URL: https://www.openmenu.com/api/v2/
• Authentication: API key passed as the key query parameter (no Bearer token / custom header)
• Sandbox: s=sample or id=sample returns fixed sample JSON without consuming credits

APIs

API	Description
OpenMenu API	Standard endpoints: search, restaurant, location, deals, ingredients.
OpenMenu Enhanced API	DishDNA enterprise tier: analysis, trends, heatmap, gap_analysis (requires enterprise_access).

Endpoints

Operation	Method	Path	Tier
Search Restaurants And Menu Items	GET	/search.php	Standard
Get Restaurant Profile	GET	/restaurant.php	Standard
List Restaurants By Location	GET	/location.php	Standard
Get Restaurant Deals	GET	/deals.php	Standard
Search Ingredient Database	GET	/ingredients.php	Standard
Get Menu Trends	GET	/trends.php	Enhanced
Get Menu Gap Analysis	GET	/gap_analysis.php	Enhanced

Artifacts

Type	Location
OpenAPI 3.1	openapi/openmenu-openapi.yml
JSON Schema	json-schema/ — restaurant, menu, menu item
JSON Structure	json-structure/ — menu item
JSON-LD context	json-ld/openmenu-context.jsonld — schema.org Restaurant/Menu/MenuItem mapping
Examples	examples/ — restaurant profile, search
Spectral rules	rules/openmenu-rules.yml
Naftiko capabilities	capabilities/ — menu discovery, menu intelligence
Vocabulary	vocabulary/openmenu-vocabulary.yml
Plans / pricing	plans/openmenu-plans-pricing.yml
Rate limits	rate-limits/openmenu-rate-limits.yml
FinOps	finops/openmenu-finops.yml

Plans

Plan	Daily Credits	Monthly Credits	Access
Free	100	100	Standard
Starter	500	5,000	Standard
Growth	2,000	50,000	Standard
Custom / Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Standard + Enhanced

One successful API request consumes one credit. Sandbox calls are not metered. Additional credits sell at $0.02/credit in 2,000-credit packages.

Notes

• There is no first-party OpenMenu GitHub organization; community wrappers exist (e.g. a Ruby parser). No official Python or Node.js SDK or MCP server was found at profiling time.
• The OpenMenu Format is the open specification underlying all menu data and maps cleanly onto schema.org Restaurant / Menu / MenuSection / MenuItem.

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Maintained by Kin Lane as part of API Evangelist.