menu

noun

1. 1

   The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.

   After the wedding celebration was over the menu was displayed for dinner.

2. 2

   A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.

   The server handed us the menu.

   We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.

3. 3

   The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.

   They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.

   We've added a few new dishes to our menu.

4. 4

   A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface.

5. 5

   A list or agenda.

   What's on the menu for today's meeting?

verb

1. 1

   rareTo include (something) in a menu.

   He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree.

   […] held their own, then that child nutrition program would consider menuing the product in the future. Kater knew he was in trouble when he saw what he was up against that day: pizza and chicken nuggets, two of the most popular school lunches served in today’s schools.

   “Menuing a bisque allows you to charge another dollar or two for the soup. Instead of $8, I can charge $11,” says Beacon’s chef and an owner, Waldy Malouf.

   He first menued the chop two years ago, expecting a short run, but has seen surprising customer loyalty: “If I took it off the menu, there would be an uprising.”

Forms

plural

menus

past tense

menued

past participle

menued

present participle

menuing

third person singular

menus