EdinburghMenus.com — Now with menus!
Ok, so we’ve been live for over a month now and despite the fact that we have the word “menus” in our name, there have been no menus on the site. Shocking. Please accept our sincere apologies.
But as of today, that has changed! It is now possible to add and edit menus for any business on the site. As with all of the business editing features, you need to be logged in to add or edit menus, and if you are not a trusted editor, any changes you make will be moderated before going live on the site. Unlike other sites that simply scan in menus for you to read on screen, all menus on EdinburghMenus.com are entered as normal text. So not only will the menus load quicker, they are easy to read, are accessible to the visually impaired and can be printed easily.
Once there are more menus on the site, we’ll add menu search features so you can search for a specific dish that you want to eat. You want to search for “spaghetti carbonara” near “clerk street”? Watch this space!
With almost a thousand businesses listed on the site, it’s going to take a while before each listing has a menu. We will be contacting business owners shortly giving them each a unique username and password so they can add and edit their own menus instantly.
This service is completely free for the business owners as well as for visitors to the site. If we charged for this, fewer businesses would use it; the site would be less useful; fewer people would visit; fewer reviews would be written; the site would become out of date and eventually our beloved EdinburghMenus.com would become yet another dead restaurant and takeaway guide cluttering up the internet — and we don’t want that!
We’ve added a few menus ourselves for a few businesses to check that the system works and to get the ball rolling (try La Garrigue, Rick Shaws or Zanzero). As with lots of things on the site, this feature is “work in progress”, so please let us know if you have any suggestions about how to improve it!
