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AI Menu Audit

WordPress plugin: AI-powered menu audit tool for food & beverage lead generation

by Anirudha Talmale · github.com/anirudhatalmale6-alt/ai-menu-audit-wordpress · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/anirudhatalmale6-alt/ai-menu-audit-wordpress/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Readme

AI Menu Audit

A WordPress plugin that turns a pasted or uploaded restaurant menu into an AI-generated audit report, shows it on screen, emails it to the visitor, and stores the contact as a lead.

Built as a lead-generation tool for food & beverage consultants: the visitor gets something genuinely useful in under a minute, you get the contact.

Install

  1. Upload the menu-audit folder to wp-content/plugins/ (or install the zip from Plugins → Add New → Upload).
  2. Activate it.
  3. Go to Menu Audit → Settings, choose your AI provider and paste your API key.
  4. Put [menu_audit] on any page, Gutenberg block or Elementor widget.

Shortcode

[menu_audit]
[menu_audit title="Free menu review" subtitle="Takes 60 seconds." button="Analyse my menu"]

How it works

  1. The visitor pastes their menu, or uploads a PDF, Word file, text file or a photo of it, and fills in name / business / email.
  2. The submission is saved immediately and the AI call runs in the background, so nothing hangs on a slow request or a PHP timeout.
  3. The report renders on the page as soon as it is ready, and is emailed at the same time along with a permanent link to a printable version.
  4. The lead is stored with the menu, the scores and the full report, and can be exported to CSV or pushed to a webhook.

What the audit covers

Menu differentiation · recipe and product uniqueness · pricing opportunities · menu structure · high-margin potential · customer appeal · competitive positioning · room for improvement — each scored 1–10 with a written justification, followed by 3–5 actions the owner can take this week.

The full prompt is editable in the settings screen, so the criteria and tone can be tuned without touching any code.

File handling

Format How it is read
.txt .md .csv Read directly
.docx Unpacked and read from word/document.xml
.doc .rtf Readable text extracted
.pdf Text layer decoded; scans fall back to the vision model
.jpg .png .webp .gif Read by the vision model

Uploads are capped at 8 MB and validated by real file type, not extension.

Providers

Provider Models
Anthropic Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Haiku 4.5
OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4o

Both use structured outputs, so the report always parses and always renders in the same layout — no half-broken or free-text reports.

The API key is yours and stays in your own database; usage is billed to you directly by the provider.

Notes

  • Set up SMTP (Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, or the host's own service). Default WordPress mail lands in spam far too often for a lead-gen tool.
  • Anti-spam: honeypot field, nonce checks, and a per-IP hourly limit you can set or disable in the settings.
  • Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+.

Licence

GPL-2.0-or-later.

Read the full README on GitHub →