# Online food menus using your smart phone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 12, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150 "2022-10-12T23:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/41 "2022-10-16T17:20:51Z")
Even the local breakfast type diners around here do. As do local bars, pizza joints, and local casual to fine dining restaurants. None of them a corporate chain. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/42 "2022-10-16T17:37:24Z")
Fine dining I would absolutely expect to have their own website. They usually have a bit more resources and manpower available. A fringe mom’n’pop _might_ (plenty do, I’m not saying they don’t) but I wouldn’t be surprised if one didn’t. The kind of place where their own 10-year-old handles phone orders between math homework assignments isn’t necessarily gonna have a webmaster. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/43 "2022-10-16T17:42:00Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > A fringe mom’n’pop _might_ (plenty do, I’m not saying they don’t) but I wouldn’t be surprised if one didn’t. Plenty? Your last post said rarely. Which is it? It’s not clear from your posts. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/44 "2022-10-16T17:51:10Z")
What really bugs me is when there are 2 “official” menus available and they aren’t the same. For example, Delmonico at the Venetian Las Vegas has a menu on the hotel website, which you’d think would be accurate, that disagrees with the menu on Emeril’s _own restaurant_ page. This makes dinner planning more than a bit of a crap shoot. What I’d really like, however, is for my favorite watering hole to put their current, up-to-the-minute tap list online. They carry lots of guest taps, and rotate their own beers constantly. I don’t want to drive all the way over there to be met with a menu of stuff I won’t drink. Can be frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/45 "2022-10-16T19:35:21Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Plenty? Your last post said rarely. Which is it? It’s not clear from your posts. Well, darling, it generally varies wildly by location, and by the whims (and available resources) of individual businesses. What am I, the Keeper of the Websites of All the Tiny Businesses out there? ETA: if so, I am wildly underpaid. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/46 "2022-10-16T19:40:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > What I’d really like, however, is for my favorite watering hole to put their current, up-to-the-minute tap list online. They carry lots of guest taps, and rotate their own beers constantly. This would require a paid webmaster on their staff. Not saying it’s not doable - of course it is - but for a beer rotation like you describe, that’s pretty much an additional F/T position on their salary. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/47 "2022-10-16T23:54:17Z")
I doubt it “requires an additional F/T position”. There are restaurants that post their Chef Special and/or Catch of the Day on a daily basis. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/48 "2022-10-16T23:56:38Z")
Hell, I’d settle for a daily photo of the menu board taken when they open each day on Instagram. Hardly a budget breaker. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/49 "2022-10-18T04:33:18Z")
Lots of local non-chain restaurants near me don’t have a website. Maybe they have a menu on UberEATS or something. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150/50 "2022-10-19T17:17:17Z")
Not all of the local places have websites around here, but they at least tend to have an official Facebook. I think this is because Facebook automatically makes the pages, and they’d rather manage them than not—seeing as basically everyone over a certain age here uses Facebook. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-food-menus-using-your-smart-phone/973150.md?page=2)