MenuEngineer AI

MenuEngineer AI is a commercial-grade restaurant intelligence and menu profitability engineering application built for restaurant owners, executive chefs, café operators, and F&B consultants. In under 60 seconds, it ingests handwritten chalkboard menus, printed physical menus, or dish photos to extract structured menu data, classify dishes across the classic Boston Consulting Group / Kasavana-Smith Menu Engineering Matrix (Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, and Dogs), uncover margin leakage, generate comprehensive allergen matrices, and suggest pricing psychology improvements.

### The Problem
Menus are the primary profit levers in hospitality, yet over 70% of restaurant owners never conduct formal margin engineering. Printing physical menus is costly and rigid, freezing suboptimal pricing and hidden food cost inflation for quarters at a time. Staff spend hours manually transcribing paper menus into POS terminals, guessing dietary allergens, and missing opportunities to position high-margin items where diners look first.

### The Solution
MenuEngineer AI fuses Sensifai AI Engine multimodal vision intelligence with deterministic culinary margin arithmetic. It accurately transcribes complex printed and handwritten menus, calculates contribution margins and popularity indices, flags allergen risks (gluten, dairy, nuts, shellfish, soy), and provides layout redesign tips (the Golden Triangle, decoy pricing, and clean visual typography) — giving operators an unfair advantage from day one.

### Key Capabilities
- Multimodal menu photo & handwritten chalkboard OCR with high-accuracy field transcription
- Automated Menu Engineering Matrix classification (Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, Dogs)
- Deterministic contribution margin and profitability spread calculations
- Automated 14-point allergen and dietary matrix tagging (vegan, gluten-free, halal, nut allergies)
- Food photography visual quality and appetizing appeal scoring (0–100)
- Pricing psychology recommendations (decoy pricing, removal of currency symbols, golden triangle placement)
- Multi-language export (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic) with one-click PDF/CSV/JSON download

### How It Works
Sign in with your Sensifai account, upload menu snapshots or dish photos (or select from realistic restaurant audit presets), and inspect real-time dish telemetry, margin engineering classifications, and exportable digital menus metered transparently at €0.05 per action from your Sensifai prepaid wallet.