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"The Idea: Every restaurant menu item in the world is searchable by its ingredients."

I'd settle for accomplishing the first, most basic, step. As Rick Emerson said on Twitter a week or two ago "Would someone please tell all the god damn restaurants out there to stop only putting their menus online in PDF format?!"

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A good portion of restaurants in my area don't have any sort of menu online. As far as I'm concerned, a restaurant's website doesn't need to be anything but a menu.

;) We're working on it (and it seems like others are too).

The amount of resistance from small business owners even for a free product can be staggering.

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