FAQs

What is MenuIQ?

MenuIQ is a cloud-based system that provides food and drink operators with the tools required to manage their menus with confidence. The system helps businesses to ensure food safety and EHO compliance, improve menu profitability and most importantly, keep customers safe with effective and accurate allergen and nutrition data management.

How does the system work?

MenuIQ receives product data direct from suppliers providing users with instant access to ingredient, allergen and nutrition data. With access to over 100,000 products, MenuIQ creates a central hub of information or a ‘virtual store cupboard’ holding vital information for all menu ingredients.

Users build their menus within the system and MenuIQ automatically calculates nutritional values and assigns allergens to each dish. The system can also generate print-ready product labels fully compliant with Natasha’s Law, if required.

Immediate ingredient change alerts will appear if a supplier changes the ingredients within a product – this ensures menu data is always accurate and reduces the risk of errors by removing manual processes and spot-checks.

With access to all supplier products and pricing, MenuIQ can monitor menu profitability in real-time allowing users to gain better control of profit margins.

Put simply, MenuIQ is essential for any business with a food and drink operation. The chances of errors being made with manual processes and spot checks are extremely high, and with such serious consequences, that is not a risk worth taking.

MenuIQ will help you demonstrate food safety compliance for your EHO inspection, protecting your business and reducing your risks, it will safeguard your customers by providing them with accurate allergen and nutrition information allowing them to make informed choices, and it will deliver significant time savings (and therefore cost savings) by reducing manual processes.

Why is MenuIQ so important for food and drink operators?

Now more than ever, businesses must take responsibility for managing their menu ingredients – so much so that tracking allergens has become a vital part of running a food and drink business...

Almost half the UK population suffers from at least one allergy, food safety legislations are constantly changing and consumers are demanding more when it comes to dietary requirements and eating habits.

Manufacturers are constantly changing their product ingredients, often without notifying suppliers, who in turn do not notify their customers or the end consumer.

Should your customer fall ill due to inaccurate allergen data, you are responsible; your business must be able to show the due diligence in place, including the steps, processes (and systems!) you use, to mitigate these risks and the potentially very serious consequences.

Can my customers see the allergen and calorie information?

Yes. Using the customer-facing menus, accessed via a QR code, customers can quickly and easily view menus with full allergen and nutrition data, filter by dietary requirement and make more informed choices. Allergen and nutrition data can also be printed on product labels, fully compliant with Natasha’s Law.

This customer-facing menu data removes pressure from staff, providing customers with the ability to access the information for themselves.

By providing full menu information to customers, you offer an increased level of customer service, improve perception, enhance experiences and gain trust and loyalty.

Can MenuIQ help me to mitigate rising food and drink costs?

Yes. With the cost of inflation rising, it’s more important than ever to control your costs and maximise profit margins. MenuIQ offers an ‘Operators Playground’ with tools such as the ‘What If’ analysis which allows users to swap out branded products for non-branded alternatives and amend portion sizes, then review the impact these changes have on the profit.

Other cost management features include the forecasting tool which allows users to identify dishes with the highest margins and create upselling and promotional opportunities.

How much does it cost?

It is our mission to ensure all of our systems are affordable for all businesses, regardless of size. For that reason, our pricing model is simple with no hidden costs – you pay for what you need, when you need it and as your business grows, our systems can grow with you.

MenuIQ is available to Regency Purchasing Group members from less than £10 per week, or from less than £15 per week for non-members. Visit the Pricing page for full details.

How long does it take to get set up?

MenuIQ is quick and easy to set-up, particularly for Regency Purchasing Group members as all product data is already accessible via RegencyIQ.

For non-members, the set-up process requires a little more work, however once the system is up and running data will be received direct from suppliers via EDI.

What’s the link between Regency Purchasing Group and MenuIQ?

As owners of a portfolio of businesses, and working with over 3,800 Regency members, we identified a huge gap in the market for an effective and affordable system – for both our own sites and our Regency members. With a system already in place to control purchasing costs, the obvious next step was to create a new system to manage menus, recipes and ingredients.

We used our knowledge and experience as owner-operators to develop the system with our team of in-house developers, who continue to enhance the system adding new features and updates.

Find out more about Regency Purchasing Group.