Auto-fill your menu with AI

Typing a full menu by hand is slow. AskFoodie can fill in dish details from just a name, scan a photo of one menu section, or digitize your whole printed menu at once. You always get a preview to check before anything is saved.

How it works

There are three ways in, from smallest to biggest:

1. Auto-fill one item. When adding an item, type its name and tap Auto-fill. AI drafts the description, dietary tags, spice level, and ingredient list. Review the fields, adjust anything, and save.
2. Scan one section. Tap the camera icon on a section and photograph that part of your printed menu. AI reads the dish names and prices, fills in each dish's details, and shows a preview with checkboxes — untick anything you don't want, then create the rest in one go.
3. Scan the full menu. Tap Scan Menu and pick photos of every page. AI builds the whole structure — sections and items together — merging pages and skipping duplicates. Review the preview, then create everything at once.

Reviewing what the AI wrote

The AI is a good guesser, not a chef at your restaurant. Dietary tags, allergens, and ingredients are its best estimate, so bulk-scanned items are marked for review and the menu page reminds you until you've looked them over — see Review scanned items & dietary tags. Pay special attention to allergens and hidden ingredients (ghee in a "vegan" curry is the classic).

Good to know

• Common dishes fill instantly. Well-known dish names are answered from a shared library, so "Paneer Tikka" doesn't need a fresh AI call.
• Section names guide the tags. Items scanned from a section called "VEG STARTERS" are kept vegetarian even if the AI wavers; drinks are never marked non-veg.
• ALL-CAPS menus come out clean — names are converted to normal capitalization automatically.
• Duplicates are skipped. Scanning a page twice won't create the same dish twice.
• Scanning is free. It's part of the menu editor, not the paid AI chat.