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Menus and allergens

Publishing a menu that stays true to what the kitchen serves.

Last published 24 Oct 2026 — the TableSpark team, London
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September 2026

2026-09 8 entries
FIG. 14 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-27

The Dish Nobody Re-Costed Since the Menu Was Printed

Food inflation held at 1.3% in August while the classes inside it did not move together. A flat percentage rise still cannot show which dish's own cost outran the average.

FIG. 15 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-22

The Guidance Asks for the Main Menu, or One Click. Count the Clicks on Your Own Order Page.

Written allergen information belongs on the main menu, or ideally one click away. Most owners have never counted the taps to it, or seen that their PDF is outdated.

FIG. 16 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-21

Your Grab-and-Go Counter Needs a Different Allergen Label Than Your Menu

Wrap a sandwich before a guest chooses it and the law stops accepting a verbal answer. A missing label on that packet is a breach of a labelling requirement, not a service lapse.

FIG. 17 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-16

The Plant-Forward Section Is a Revenue Decision, Not a Dietary Afterthought

A tag on one line among twenty is easy to miss, and a menu page that scatters its plant-forward dishes leaves the group's answer invisible at the speed a phone menu is read.

FIG. 18 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-13

The Menu Photo On Your Google Listing Might Not Be Yours

A guest's photograph of an old chalkboard can be the first menu a diner sees. Here is how to check the Menu tab, and what Google's own rules say about removing a wrong one.

FIG. 19 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-13

You Changed the Price. Prove It Reached Every Guest-Facing Surface.

A saved price edit settles one surface. Three others — Google's last-crawled copy, the Business Profile menu, a printed card — can still be showing a stale figure.

FIG. 20 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-09

The free refill is the one promotion rule restaurants are not excluded from

The restaurant exclusion in the promotion rules is real, and it stops one regulation short of the free refill. What decides the risk is a fifty-employee headcount, not the sector.

FIG. 21 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-02

UK law on a restaurant menu price that was never updated, and the deadline that does not exist

A price that was accurate when it was printed can still be presented in a misleading way, and no deadline anywhere tells a restaurant when the stale figure must come down.

August 2026

2026-08 4 entries
FIG. 22 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-08-29

Where written allergen information is the law, and where it is not

A wall matrix left unchecked becomes an inaccurate written claim about a named allergen. The rule that binds a dining room answering out loud turns on where the guest chooses.

FIG. 23 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-08-27

How to Keep Your Restaurant Website Menu in Step With Zettle

The till export carries a name and a price, not the dish description or the allergen line. The page a guest relies on is left holding what the catalogue lost.

FIG. 24 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-08-27

When Toast and Your Website Disagree About the Menu

The change was saved and never published, and there is no rollback. The kitchen believes the menu moved while a guest still reads a stale one, and the wrong dish reaches the pass.

FIG. 25 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-08-27

Keeping your restaurant's website menu in step with TISSL

The published specification carries fifteen endpoints and none touches the menu. A site built assuming a menu feed waits on something that is not documented.

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