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List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Re: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Post by snoopy_telex »

pimlottc wrote: post #16

The terminology is a bit strange to me as an American. "Food stores" sounds like you're talking about grocery stores/supermarkets/butchers/bakeries/etc., not restaurants. Calling a restaurant a "store" sounds odd. I would just go ahead and substitute the word "restaurant" in most places.

They include stores in my area, like rite-aid and Walgreens as well as grocery stores like Safeway.

There’s also entries for a place called “Pizza” that seems to be a combined menu of three local pizza places.

Re: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Post by MenumyApp »

minutillo wrote: post #19

Why can't I search by restaurant name / type? It's just an endless list of restaurants in my zip code? And why can't I search by food? Like show me all the restaurants near me with tacos. That would be useful. Prices formatted incorrectly: $1.5 should be $1.50 None of the footer links work: About Us, Developers, etc.

Thanks for the valuable feedback, we are still working on that. "Search by store name, food name, and footer links" will be available soon :)

Price formatting has been fixed :)

Re: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Post by MenumyApp »

pimlottc wrote: post #16

The terminology is a bit strange to me as an American. "Food stores" sounds like you're talking about grocery stores/supermarkets/butchers/bakeries/etc., not restaurants. Calling a restaurant a "store" sounds odd. I would just go ahead and substitute the word "restaurant" in most places.

We have grocery and other stores too as you mentioned, just not restaurants :) we will soon add filter to differentiate them.

Re: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Post by MenumyApp »

dn3500 wrote: post #20

That's a non-standard use of the term "food store." Kroger is a food store, Qdoba is a restaurant. And it's a bit misleading to show a photo of some other restaurant's food. I would expect the photo to show food from that restaurant, not from a different restaurant. It's pretty annoying that there are only nine listings on each page. And no way to sort. Or skip to a particular page.

Thanks for pointing that out. We are still working on image part and it will be available soon with the actual store images :)

Re: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Post by Cerpicio »

MenumyApp wrote: post #14
Cerpicio wrote: post #9

An indication of how many pages are in the result list would be nice, instead of just Next and Prev buttons. "Page x of y" sort of thing.

Since the numbers are near millions, we have switched it back to prev, next and will replace it by infinite loading

Millions of stores in a given zip code?

Re: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise)

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Post by chris_st »

Something that would be REALLY useful would be to have indications of food allergy ingredients found in the menus of restaurants. It's really disappointing to hear about a great restaurant, and then find out that they have something that causes severe[1] reactions on the menu and so we can't go there.

There are several lists of common allergens on the web. There are enough that perhaps it would be better to let you specify the ones you care about, and either mark them prominently, or just don't show them.

1. By "severe" I mean that someone who got even a small fraction of, e.g., a peanut could die from anaphylactic shock. It's real.

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