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So now imagine you could see menus of restaurants before hand. With plenty of details of it. Translated to many languages, if you may. Because, for tourists on

So now imagine you could see menus of restaurants before hand. With plenty of details of it. Translated to many languages, if you may. Because, for tourists on certain places, sometimes, it's difficult to get the meaning of what they are about to eat. Put all this data indexed on a platform focused on menus and, you have https://www.lomenu.com https://www.lomenu.com. What are your thoughts on this? Currently it's focused only to Spain, because the fact of gathering such an amount of digital information, and then transcript it to a indexable format to be useful on searches, it's a big amount of work. Would you think people running restaurants are willing to update their menus or daily menus in a daily/week basis?

puranjay 9y ago
There's already Zomato.com. Massive collection of menus, at least for restaurants in India. They acquired UrbanSpoon so they might have menus for US restaurants too.
- davidpelayo 9y ago
  But think about it as a dynamic entity. Something that evolves over time. Because all restaurants change their menu at least twice a year. Zomato tends to list dishes of a menu, giving the whole importance to the restaurant information. Isn't a contradiction menus don't get the deserved attention when it comes to compare what restaurant you want to choose? What's the best way then to spread menus up to date all over the world? I believe there is a need for one. A centralized cloud platform gathering all menus together, giving the importance menus deserve. Good designed, multilanguage and currency and so on. What do you think?
  - puranjay 9y ago
    I agree. The menus on Zomato are basically just scanned copies of restaurant menus I would prefer a database of the city's restaurants and their menus, all sortable and searchable. Say, I want to know restaurants serve Ramen near my home, I should be able to do that. I should also be able to sort them by price, or number of variants, etc. The problem, of course, is data collection. If there is substantial traffic, restaurants have an incentive to keep information updated themselves. Else, you're going to have to rely on crowdsourced information with some OCR

puranjay 9y ago

There's already Zomato.com. Massive collection of menus, at least for restaurants in India. They acquired UrbanSpoon so they might have menus for US restaurants too.

davidpelayo 9y ago
But think about it as a dynamic entity. Something that evolves over time. Because all restaurants change their menu at least twice a year. Zomato tends to list dishes of a menu, giving the whole importance to the restaurant information. Isn't a contradiction menus don't get the deserved attention when it comes to compare what restaurant you want to choose? What's the best way then to spread menus up to date all over the world? I believe there is a need for one. A centralized cloud platform gathering all menus together, giving the importance menus deserve. Good designed, multilanguage and currency and so on. What do you think?
- puranjay 9y ago
  I agree. The menus on Zomato are basically just scanned copies of restaurant menus I would prefer a database of the city's restaurants and their menus, all sortable and searchable. Say, I want to know restaurants serve Ramen near my home, I should be able to do that. I should also be able to sort them by price, or number of variants, etc. The problem, of course, is data collection. If there is substantial traffic, restaurants have an incentive to keep information updated themselves. Else, you're going to have to rely on crowdsourced information with some OCR