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MenuItem

A Schema.org Type
A food or drink item listed in a menu or menu section.
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from MenuItem
menuAddOn MenuItem  or
MenuSection
Additional menu item(s) such as a side dish of salad or side order of fries that can be added to this menu item. Additionally it can be a menu section containing allowed add-on menu items for this menu item.
nutrition NutritionInformation Nutrition information about the recipe or menu item.
offers Demand  or
Offer
An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, perform a service, or give away tickets to an event. Use businessFunction to indicate the kind of transaction offered, i.e. sell, lease, etc. This property can also be used to describe a Demand. While this property is listed as expected on a number of common types, it can be used in others. In that case, using a second type, such as Product or a subtype of Product, can clarify the nature of the offer.
Inverse property: itemOffered
suitableForDiet RestrictedDiet Indicates a dietary restriction or guideline for which this recipe or menu item is suitable, e.g. diabetic, halal etc.
Properties from Thing
additionalType Text  or
URL
An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName Text An alias for the item.
description Text  or
TextObject
A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL
The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image ImageObject  or
URL
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity
name Text The name of the item.
potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs URL URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf CreativeWork  or
Event
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
Inverse property: about
url URL URL of the item.

Instances of MenuItem may appear as a value for the following properties
PropertyOn TypesDescription
hasMenuItem Menu  or
MenuSection
A food or drink item contained in a menu or menu section.
itemOffered Demand  or
Offer
An item being offered (or demanded). The transactional nature of the offer or demand is documented using businessFunction, e.g. sell, lease etc. While several common expected types are listed explicitly in this definition, others can be used. Using a second type, such as Product or a subtype of Product, can clarify the nature of the offer.
menuAddOn MenuItem Additional menu item(s) such as a side dish of salad or side order of fries that can be added to this menu item. Additionally it can be a menu section containing allowed add-on menu items for this menu item.

Examples

Example 1
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
A simple menu example with a single menu section for tacos and a taco menu item.
Note that additional menus are possible for specific languages using the
inLanguage property.
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
   "@context":"https://schema.org",
   "@type":"Restaurant",
   "url":"http://www.somerestaurant.com",
   "name":"Some Restaurant",
   "description":"This is the Some Restaurant located on 345 Spear St. San Francisco, 94105 CA. It serves Indian-Mexican fusion cuisine",
   "servesCuisine":[
      "Indian-Mexican Fusion"
   ],
   "hasMenu":{
      "@type":"Menu",
      "hasMenuSection":{
         "@type":"MenuSection",
         "name":"Tacos",
         "description":"Tacos inspired by India cuisine.",
         "image":[
            "https://somerestaurant.com/some_tacos.jpg",
            "https://somerestaurant.com/more_tacos.jpg"
         ],
         "offers":{
            "@type":"Offer",
            "availabilityEnds":"2017-03-02T08:22:00",
            "availabilityStarts":"2017-03-02T08:22:00"
         },
         "hasMenuItem":{
            "@type":"MenuItem",
            "name":"Aloo Gobi Taco",
            "description":"Mexico City-style street corn tortilla taco filled with a flavorful mixture of mildly south Indian spiced cauliflower, potato, tomato, onions and bell peppers.",
            "offers":{
               "@type":"Offer",
               "price":"3.50",
               "priceCurrency":"USD"
            },
            "nutrition":{
               "@type":"NutritionInformation",
               "calories":"170 calories",
               "fatContent":"3 grams",
               "fiberContent":"2 grams",
               "proteinContent":"4 grams"
            },
            "suitableForDiet":"https://schema.org/GlutenFreeDiet"
         }
      },
      "inLanguage":"English"
   }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.
Example 2
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
An example of a menu with nested MenuSections.
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
   "@context":"https://schema.org",
   "@type":"Restaurant",
   "url":"http://www.thisisarestaurant.com",
   "name":"The Restaurant",
   "image":"http://www.example.com/image-of-some-restaurant.jpg",
   "description":"This is an example restaurant that serves American cuisine.",
   "servesCuisine":[
      "American cuisine"
   ],
   "hasMenu":{
      "@type":"Menu",
      "name":"Dine-In Menu",
      "description":"Menu for in-restaurant dining only.",
      "hasMenuSection":[
         {
            "@type":"MenuSection",
            "name":"Dinner",
            "description":"Dinner dishes",
            "image":"https://thisisarestaurant.com/dinner_dishes.jpg",
            "offers":{
               "@type":"Offer",
               "availabilityEnds":"2017-03-02T08:22:00",
               "availabilityStarts":"2017-03-02T08:22:00"
            },
            "hasMenuSection":[
               {
                  "@type":"MenuSection",
                  "name":"Starters",
                  "description":"Appetizers and such",
                  "image":"https://thisisarestaurant.com/starter_dishes.jpg",
                  "offers":{
                     "@type":"Offer",
                     "availabilityEnds":"2017-03-02T08:22:00",
                     "availabilityStarts":"2017-03-02T08:22:00"
                  },
                  "hasMenuItem":{
                     "@type":"MenuItem",
                     "name":"Potato Skins",
                     "description":"Small serving of stuffed potato skins.",
                     "offers":{
                        "@type":"Offer",
                        "price":"7.49",
                        "priceCurrency":"USD"
                     },
                     "suitableForDiet":"https://schema.org/GlutenFreeDiet"
                  }
               },
               {
                  "@type":"MenuSection",
                  "name":"Soups & Salads",
                  "description":"Salads and a few choices of soup",
                  "image":"https://thisisarestaurant.com/soup_and_salad_dishes.jpg",
                  "offers":{
                     "@type":"Offer",
                     "availabilityEnds":"2017-03-02T08:22:00",
                     "availabilityStarts":"2017-03-02T08:22:00"
                  },
                  "hasMenuItem":{
                     "@type":"MenuItem",
                     "name":"Pea Soup",
                     "description":"Creamy pea soup topped with melted cheese and sourdough croutons.",
                     "offers":{
                        "@type":"Offer",
                        "price":"3.49",
                        "priceCurrency":"USD"
                     }
                  }
               }
            ]
         }
      ]
   }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.