Talk:Menu

Menu origin
The word "menu" originally indicated that the "small" detail of the meal was being listed; supposedly this was first done in private households.

"Carte" originally referred to the bill. Terms for the menu were more general ("sheet", etc.)

The idea that tables d'hote were the only way to dine out before the restaurant is a myth (see the article for Restaurant). The table d'hote only appeared towards the end of the seventeenth century; people were dining out long before that and there are numerous examples of itemized bills before the restaurant. The menu is so poorly documented even after the restaurant appears that it is hard to say if it existed before that innovation, at least handheld; but statutes in the sixteenth century required taverns, cabarets and inns to post itemized lists of officially set prices.

All this fastidious to document. if I find the sources, I'll update the article. 23.113.53.110 (talk) 05:50, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Off topic
I added the off topic tag to this article. The article contains little information about the history of menus or their function in the restaurant business, and instead contains culturally limited and rather uninformative truisms about different meals and the nutrition sought from them, which probably belongs at an article on diet (nutrition) rather than here. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have attempted to add a bit of more relevant info to the article, but I have not yet removed much of the text that was originally here, except for a bit that seemed to be shilling for an online menu service. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:02, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Main picture
In the English language Wikipedia, is there no other choice for the "main" picture than a menu written in Russian? -- Hbar.cc (talk) 03:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:FOOD Tagging
This article talk page was automatically added with WikiProject Food and drink banner as it falls under Category:Restaurants or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. You can find the related request for tagging here -- TinucherianBot (talk) 10:23, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Digital signage reads like an advertisement for a specific company.
Isn't namedropping a specific company in reference to a non-patented technology verboten on Wikipedia? Why is there a company listed there in the post? I think this should be removed in lieu of the fact that if I really wanted to know where to go for digital signage and menu systems... search engines are there for that purpose. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.30.130 (talk) 14:52, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

"poached" = puffery?
It certainly is the case that a lot of menus use pretentious descriptions, but is "poached" really an example? Iapetus (talk) 07:29, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Search Engine Tags
On searching for menu information I noticed this page shows up with email addresses in the search results (I used Ecosia for this search). I'm concerned about these and think they should be removed but I don't know how to do this. Perhaps admin or a bot can help? Regards Felix 14:04, 30 March 2020 (UTC)Felixnicholson (talk)

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