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What are you in the mood for — and where can you find it? With our new service, MenuRoom, we want to make the journey from that question to your next restaurant visit a little shorter. We are now also welcoming MenuRoom to the websites monitored by MonitorUptime, with a public status page where visitors can follow its availability.

This launch is particularly close to our hearts: the team behind MonitorUptime also built MenuRoom. We are using our own monitoring service for a product we develop and run ourselves.

Start with the food, not a collection of browser tabs

Finding somewhere to eat can involve a surprising amount of searching. One restaurant puts its menu in a PDF, another lists prices on a separate page, and sometimes you know exactly what you want to eat but not which restaurant serves it.

MenuRoom brings publicly available restaurant and menu information together in a searchable service. Start with a dish, a cuisine, a restaurant or a location, then explore your options. Pizza for the family, sushi near work or a new pasta favourite on a weekend away — the idea is to let your appetite guide your search.

Find dishes, compare menu prices and discover food nearby

MenuRoom helps you:

• Search for dishes and restaurants. Find options based on what you actually want to eat.
• Explore menus and prices. See what is on offer and compare the menu prices available in the source information.
• Match your budget. Use price filters to find dishes within your chosen range.
• Discover restaurants nearby. Select a town or use optional location access and distance filters.
• Look for lunch. Explore lunch pages when it is time to find somewhere for your midday meal.
• Find inspiration. Browse cuisines, places and stories in MenuRoom's magazine.

You do not need an account to search. The service also offers multiple language options and restaurant listings in several countries, making it useful both at home and when exploring somewhere new.

MenuRoom is an independent restaurant and menu guide, not a booking service. Menus, prices and availability can change. Links to the restaurant's own information help you check the current offering before your visit.

A place for the restaurant behind the menu

MenuRoom is not only for people looking for their next meal. Restaurant owners can verify ownership and get started free of charge, updating menus, prices, opening hours and contact details. They can also highlight selected dishes and respond to guest reviews.

For restaurants ready to take the next step, paid plans offer a dedicated website, images and additional menu tools. Custom domains are available under the relevant plan terms. This lets a restaurant start with the basics and build on its online presence as its needs grow.

Learn more about MenuRoom for restaurants.

Why uptime matters when someone is hungry

A restaurant guide needs to be available when people want to use it: just before lunch, on the way to dinner or when friends are deciding where to eat. A website that does not respond at that moment risks losing both the visitor's interest and a restaurant's chance to be discovered.

That is why we now monitor MenuRoom with MonitorUptime. A check runs every five minutes, verifying that the homepage returns the expected HTTP status and contains the MenuRoom name. Monitoring can alert us to availability problems; it is not a guarantee against outages or a complete test of every feature on the website.

Follow MenuRoom's public status

On MenuRoom's public status page, you can follow website availability, response times and the measurement history collected since monitoring began.

For us, this is a practical example of MonitorUptime in action. We build new services — and use our own tools to keep an eye on them.

Discover MenuRoom: restaurants, menus and food near you. Start with something you are craving. Your next favourite may be closer than you think.