The rules, plainly stated.

MenuRegistry produces informational allergen audits of restaurant menu content. You upload a menu; our automated audit engine analyzes it for the presence of the 9 FDA major allergens; we return a structured audit report with a SHA-256 content hash and ISO timestamp.

The audits are not legal advice and not compliance certification. They are analytical outputs designed to help you identify allergen disclosure gaps. A MenuRegistry audit does not guarantee that your menu complies with any federal, state, or local allergen disclosure law. Operators are solely responsible for verifying compliance with applicable regulations.

To create an account you must be at least 18 years old and have legal authority to bind the business on whose behalf you are using the service. If you are signing up on behalf of a restaurant group or corporation, you represent that you have the authority to accept these terms for that entity.

Accounts are not shared. Each account is tied to a single email address. We use magic-link authentication, there are no passwords, but you are responsible for the security of the email inbox that receives your sign-in links. Do not forward magic-link emails or allow others to use your sign-in links.

You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at hello@menuregistry.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

You may use MenuRegistry to audit menus for restaurants you own, operate, or are otherwise legitimately authorized to represent. You may not use the service to audit menus on behalf of restaurants you do not have authorization to represent.

The following uses are prohibited:

• ×Automated scraping or bulk extraction of audit results, report data, or any other content from the platform.
• ×Resale, relicensing, or redistribution of audit reports to third parties without our prior written permission.
• ×Reverse engineering, decompiling, or attempting to extract the underlying AI models or system prompts.
• ×Using the service in any way that violates applicable law or the rights of any third party.

Paid plans are billed on a monthly recurring basis via Stripe. Your subscription renews automatically at the start of each billing period unless you cancel.

You may cancel at any time through your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, you retain full access through that date. We do not issue refunds for partial billing months on monthly plans.

Annual plans, when offered, are eligible for a pro-rata refund of the unused portion of the annual term if you cancel within the first 30 days. After 30 days, annual plans are non-refundable but will not auto-renew if cancelled before the renewal date.

If a payment fails, we will retry the charge and notify you by email. If the charge cannot be collected within 7 days, your account may be downgraded to the Free tier until payment is resolved.

The Free tier includes one (1) allergen audit with a watermarked PDF preview. The watermarked PDF is provided for evaluation purposes only.

The watermarked PDF is not a compliance-ready document and must not be used as evidence of allergen compliance in any regulatory, legal, or operational context. Upgrade to a Pro plan to generate clean, audit-grade PDFs with SHA-256 verification.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

MenuRegistry explicitly disclaims any warranty that its allergen audits are complete, accurate, or sufficient for legal compliance. Automated analysis of menu content is subject to error, ingredients may be ambiguous, proprietary recipes may be withheld, and cross-contamination risks are outside the scope of our analysis. The operator is solely responsible for the accuracy of the menu content uploaded and for verifying allergen disclosures with their kitchen operations team before publishing any menu.

Audit results reflect only the menu content provided at the time of upload. Any subsequent change to recipes, suppliers, ingredients, kitchen practices, plating, or menu copy invalidates the audit’s findings as applied to the current menu. You are responsible for running a new audit after any material change before relying on the prior record.

MenuRegistry is not an insurance product, regulatory certification, accreditation program, or law firm. Inspectors, insurance carriers, franchise operators, lenders, diners, and any other third parties should treat any audit report or public verification page as informational only.

Audits, audit reports, public verification pages, badges, and printable posters are generated for the operator account that commissioned them. They are not designed for, and may not be relied on by, diners, customers, medical professionals, regulators, inspectors, insurance carriers, franchisors, or any other third party as a guarantee that any dish, ingredient, or menu is free of any allergen or safe for any specific individual.

Diners and other guests with food allergies should always confirm ingredients directly with restaurant staff before ordering. Allergens can be introduced through kitchen practices, supplier substitutions, shared equipment, or cross-contamination that are outside the scope of any MenuRegistry audit.

No third party is an intended beneficiary of these terms or of any audit produced by the service.

You retain ownership of all menu content you upload. By uploading menu content, you represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to that content, including any copyrighted dish names, descriptions, photography, or proprietary recipes, and that submitting it to MenuRegistry does not violate any third-party right.

You grant MenuRegistry a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process, store, transmit, and analyze your uploaded content solely to provide the service, to generate audit reports, and to retain a record of work performed. We will not sell your menu content, and we will not use it to train third-party AI models, as described in our Privacy Policy.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, MenuRegistry's total liability to you for any claim arising out of or related to the service, whether in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise, is limited to the greater of (a) $500 or (b) the total fees you paid to MenuRegistry in the 12 months preceding the claim.

In no event will MenuRegistry be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of data, business interruption, regulatory fines, civil penalties, settlement payments, or personal-injury claims by diners or other third parties, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Time limit on claims. Any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of the service must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, or it is permanently barred. This shortened limitations period applies to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration in the State of California, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) then in effect, except as provided below. The arbitrator's award will be final and binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class action waiver: To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive the right to bring any dispute as a class action, class arbitration, representative action, or consolidated proceeding. You may only bring claims in your individual capacity.

Either party may bring a claim in small claims court for disputes within the jurisdictional limit of that court, without first arbitrating. Nothing in this section limits either party's right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief for intellectual property infringement.