Release Note

Google Menus API Expansion

Realease Notes
Google Menus API Expansion
September 28, 2024

Background

Google Business Profiles continues to evolve into fully location websites as Google expands deep support for category-specific content. The LocalClarity team is thrilled to provide tools to simplify, streamline, and scale enterprise-level management of these additional data sets -- this time for restaurant menus.

Description

The LocalClarity team can help clients directly publish complex menus to each listing with all of the following data point options for each offering. (* Required)

Name *: Name of the food item, such as Hamburger.

Price *: Price of the food item.

Price currency *: Currency of the food item price, such as U.S. dollar.

Item description: Brief description on the food item.

Menu sections: Logical groups of food items, such as Breakfast or Hamburger-Fries combo.

Nutrition: Nutritional information, such as Total Fat=3g.

Number of people to serve: The number of people the food item can serve.

Portion size: Quantity of the food item. For example, 8-piece of nuggets.

Preparation methods: Specific methods that the food item can be prepared in.

Cuisines: The specific cuisine of the food item.

Spiciness: Spiciness of the food item, such as none, mild, medium, and hot.

Allergen: Food allergens in the food item, such as dairy, egg, fish, peanut, shellfish, soy, tree nut, and wheat.

Dietary: Dietary restriction of the food item, such as halal, kosher, organic, vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free.

Options: The food option type, such as chicken Pad Thai versus veggie Pad Thai.

Food item photo: Photo of the specific food item.

What's Next

Over the next few sprint releases, we will add more in-platform tools to manage an expanding set of details.