Instead eveyone is busy building their own little feudal kingdom and they call it platform even if it's actually just a toll booth
So I’m sure you could sign up yelp and google and Uber eats and everyone else for a common data standard, but you’d then still have to go chasing the restaurants to go put that information in a system somewhere.
We haven’t even really been able to convince businesses to put their opening hours online, it’s still such a problem that one of my interview questions at google in 2018 was “name as many ways as possible you might be able to discover a business’s opening hours online”
Menus are about an order of magnitude more complex than that - it’s a tough thing to get restaurants to do.
Yet their hours are wrong, and different, on google and bing.
if I own a business there is no singular place I know of where I can publish my opening hours. My laundrette here can't publish the fact that they will be closed due to sickness except by placing a sheet of A4 at the door.
"A structured representation of food or drink items available from a FoodEstablishment."
Clearly the issue is that no one has convinced FoodEstablishments of the business case to spend tech dollars publishing their menus.