Schema.org for restaurant menus

[blackrails]

Hi i have looking into ways that i can apply shema.org formatting to a website that has a collection of restaurant menus.

I found related schema.org formats (eg recipes, reviews, products etc) though can not seem to find a format set out for menu items.

I am considering using the product format (http://schema.org/Product) for each menu item on a restaurant menu though not sure if this would add much value or not.

I was hoping Google when then know more about the data collected on the website and be able to show it more accurately to the end user when they are searching for this data (restaurant menu), with rich snippets in serp results.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

[Adam.Whittles]

Hi Adam,

Not sure how well this will work. It is also possible that the search engines may not display it as you wish.

There is however a format from Shema.org that might help. It is the Schema.org/Restaurant format. In it they list options for 'menu' where you can have the actual menu or a URL of the menu. Personally I would go with a URL link to your menu as it will get more visitors to your site, which is ultimately what you want.

Hope that helps,

Adam.

[blackrails]

This post is deleted!

[Ontarioseo]

Hi Adam,

I know this is an old thread but if you get this you might find it useful. I just checked a particular brewery site; they have their menu marked up with the url and it seems to be picked up by the rich snippets tool OK, although it does throw a few errors.I tested it on a few of my other tools and it definitely gets picked up without a problem.

Here is the GWT link