Once you've registered a restaurant profile it will be displayed on your My Account page. To create a menu click the, "Menu" link.

If you have multiple restaurants click the Menu link next to the restaurant you want to create the menu for.

Click the, "Add menu items" link located to the top left of the main table.

The first step in creating your menu is creating Restaurant Categories. Restaurant Categories are the categories your menu is broken down into. Every restaurant has it's own unique categories. Type the name of the category and click "Add". The screen shot below shows what Restaurant Categories could look like for a typical Mexican Restaurant.

You can brand your Restaurant Categories. Bob's Burgers may have a category called, "Bob's Famous Burgers" or, "Bob's Tasty Appetizers".

After your categories are created Click the Go button beneath the Restaurant Category window to add items to each of these categories.

Enter in your menu item, the price and place a check in the box next to the appropriate category. When finished click the Add button. If you make any mistakes you can delete the item and re-enter it into the system.

If the categories you added in the previous step are not immediately viewable to the right of "Select Categories" hit the refresh or reload button on your internet browser.

ATTN: To streamline the process we recommend adding all menu items at once. While you are free to add a single item at a time followed by a photo and description, we suggest adding descriptions and photos only after all items are added.

To add photos of your menu items click the Photo link in the far right hand column.

You can also add photos from your My Account page by clicking, "Menu Items without photos" under Quick Links, followed by the, "Add Photo" link.

We strongly recommend having photos of every appetizer, dish, dessert and signature drink you serve. Images are compelling and can effectively sell your cuisine to local diners.

Click the item you wish to add a description to. For the screen shot below the user is selecting the Carne Asada Taco to add a description to.

Once the item is selected you'll be able to enter in a description of the item. The description field is highlighted in yellow below.

While it's highly discouraged, if you don't wish to make your items searchable you can skip Classifying each item and simply click the Update button to only add the item's description. It's important to note that only items that are classified for their cuisine, course and category can be voted for in the Flavor 100.

Assigning Classifications makes your restaurant easier to find and is the key factor if you want your restaurant's dishes to be recommended to local diners.

Adding Classifications
Make your menu searchable by assigning classifications to the item. Cuisine, Course and Category are the three primary Classifications you want to assign to your menu items.

Classifications Explained:

1. Cuisine: Certain dishes find their origins in specific cuisines. Some examples would include Chicken Marsala being an Italian dish, Enchiladas Suizas being a Mexican dish or Tempura and Gyoza being popular Japanese foods. Typically most dishes will reflect the main cuisine served by the restaurant. So for example, if you serve Irish food, most your dishes would be classified as Irish in cuisine.

2. Course: Courses include entrees, drinks, appetizers, desserts and sides. Assigning your items a course enables more diners to find you and means that your items can be voted for Best Entree, Best Appetizer, Best Dessert and Best Drink in the Flavor 100.

3. Category: The category is typically your restaurant or menu category minus any restaurant branding. Let's say your assigning a Mushroom Burger a category. Your restaurant category could be, "Bob's Famous Burgers". Your Classification category would be "hamburgers" or "burgers" because a Mushroom Burger is a type of burger. If you were serving Lamb Shank your Category Classication would be Lamb. This enables users to quickly find your restaurant by simply typing in Categories of food (tacos, burgers, salads, soups, cake, shrimp, steak, fish etc.) and being able to find specific dishes your restaurant serves based off those categories.

How to assign Classifications to menu items.
To add Classifications first select a category from the drop down list. The Description field is a description of the category. Let's say you were looking to assign a Cuisine Classification to Chicken Tacos.

1. First select Cuisine from the Category drop down menu.
2. Type in, "Mexican" in the open description field. This open description field enables you to search for Classifications
3. After you've entered the Classification that reflects your menu item click the, "Filter" button to search for that Classification.
4. After you've clicked the filter button Mexican cuisine will show up as an option in the lower left hand window. Select Mexican and click the top button with the arrows that point to the right. If you make a mistake you can simply select the cuisine from the right hand window and click the bottom button with the arrows that point to the left to remove the Classification.

Assigning Classifications to your menu items only takes a moment and it insures your items will be found by local diners and recommended to new potential guests.

After you've finished assigning Classifications to your menu item click the update button at the bottom to save your changes.