Last updated 2026-08-18

Terms of service

Menu Decoder is free and offered as-is by one person. Using it means accepting the terms below. They are short on purpose.

What this is

It reads a restaurant menu from a photograph and tags dishes by cuisine and allergen risk.

What it is not

It is not medical advice and it is not an allergen safety system. Allergen recall is well below 100%, the published figures say so, and the tool is deliberately built never to answer that something is safe. Always confirm with the restaurant.

Acceptable use

Use it for your own purposes. Do not attempt to overload or disrupt anything hosted here, scrape it wholesale, or submit another person's personal information without their permission.

Content and licence

The code is MIT licensed and the repository is public. Names of third-party products, standards and organisations belong to their owners and imply no affiliation or endorsement.

No warranty

If you have a food allergy, treat every output as a prompt to ask a person, never as clearance to eat. The service is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied, and may change or stop at any time without notice. To the maximum extent the law allows, the author is not liable for any loss arising from use of this project or reliance on its output.

Contact

Questions go to lyhjeremy@gmail.com.