#1Entréegreat · 96
Ribeye au Bleu
$52Your table's kind of splurge. Nothing here touches Mia's peanut allergy, and the kitchen will cook it medium rare if you ask.
Ask for it medium rare — that's how you order steak
richsavoryumami
Menu Scout
Family Plus AI
Point your phone at the menu. Know what to order.
Menu Scout reads the menu in front of you and ranks it for the people at your table — flagging the dish that lists peanuts, easing off the heat for the kids, and remembering how you take your steak.
Works on multi-page, handwritten, and chalkboard menus
Answers in seconds
Allergy-aware
Scored per table
Explains itself
The problem
Everything Homii knows about your household stops at the restaurant door
You have already told Homii who is allergic to what, who won’t eat anything green, and how your table actually orders. Then you sit down somewhere new and get handed a laminated page that knows none of it.
Re-explaining every allergy
To a server, in a loud room, for the fourth time this month.
Skimming for landmines
The peanuts are in the description, three words deep, in italic grey.
Ordering the safe thing
Nobody tries anything new because nobody has time to work it out.
Worked example
One menu, one table, two seconds
A live walkthrough of the scan pipeline: capture the page, lift every dish, score it for the people at the table, and rank with the reasons attached.
Click a node to scrub · pauses on hover
Scan pipelinecomplete
Household signal
MiaPeanut allergy · critical
capture → readread → matchmatch → rank
1.90s
ribeye au bleu · 96 · great
Kerlé · page 1 of 2Illustrative example — a fictional restaurant and household.
Rank
Ordered for this table, with the reasons attached.
Top picks
7 dishes ranked
#2Entréegreat · 91
Cedar-Plank Salmon
$32The lightest thing off the fire, and it still gets the smoke you keep going back to.
smokybrightherby
#3Startergreat · 88
Matt's Mac
$15The order that keeps the kids happy while the entrées take their time. One skillet covers both of them.
creamycheesycomforting
Charred Broccolini Caesar
$16good · 76A solid vegetable for the table. The dressing is anchovy-based, which the name doesn't tell you.
Smoked Trout Dip
$13good · 68Good for the adults to split. The kids probably won't touch it.
Nashville Hot Chicken
$26caution · 44Genuinely hot, which is not how this table orders. Worth asking whether they'll make it mild.
Kung Pao Brussels Sprouts
$14avoid · 8Don't order this one. The menu lists peanuts and Mia's allergy is critical.
What comes back
Three picks, and the reason for each
Scored for a four-person table at Kerlé with one critical peanut allergy. Every dish keeps its reasoning attached, including the ones you should skip.
1 dish flagged
Household allergens: peanut
#1Entréegreat · 96
Ribeye au Bleu
$52Your table's kind of splurge. Nothing here touches Mia's peanut allergy, and the kitchen will cook it medium rare if you ask.
Ask for it medium rare — that's how you order steak
richsavoryumami
#2Entréegreat · 91
Cedar-Plank Salmon
$32The lightest thing off the fire, and it still gets the smoke you keep going back to.
smokybrightherby
#3Startergreat · 88
Matt's Mac
$15The order that keeps the kids happy while the entrées take their time. One skillet covers both of them.
creamycheesycomforting
Verify with your server — menu descriptions may be incomplete.
Where it earns its place
Not every meal out needs help. These are the ones that do.
A menu with forty things on it
Someone reads it three times and orders the same thing they always order. Menu Scout narrows forty dishes to the three worth arguing about.
A description that hides the allergen
“Chili crisp, peanuts, scallions” is easy to skim past on a crowded page. Homii reads every line and flags the one that matters.
Kids who won't eat what you ordered
Homii already knows your table orders down the heat scale, so the Nashville hot chicken shows up with a warning instead of a recommendation.
A dish you want again next month
Save it to your cookbook from the results and Homii will help you recreate it at home, without you writing anything down at the table.
How it works
Step 1
Photograph the menu
Up to five photos, one page at a time. Multi-page menus get merged and duplicate dishes are collapsed into one.
Step 2
Homii reads and scores it
Every dish, price, and description comes off the page and gets checked against your household's allergies, restrictions, and the tastes Homii already learned.
Step 3
Order with the reasoning attached
Top picks first, allergy concerns flagged before you order, and a short note on why each dish landed where it did.
Fast enough to use while someone waits
A tool you use standing up, on restaurant wifi, with a server hovering, has a much harder deadline than one you use on the couch. Menu Scout is built around that deadline.
- Photos shrink on your phone before they upload
- Reading and personalising happen at the same time
- Results appear as they resolve, not all at the end
- Reopening a past scan costs nothing
What you get at the table
- Ranked picks for the household actually at the table
- Allergy concerns surfaced before you order, not after
- Reads multi-page, handwritten, and chalkboard menus
- Explains why each dish landed where it did
- Suggests what to ask for — medium rare, sauce on the side, hold the nuts
- Save a dish to your cookbook to recreate at home
Built for the two minutes before the server comes back. Menu Scout is not a research tool. It runs while you are holding a menu with everyone waiting, so it prioritises answering fast and showing its reasoning over being exhaustive.
FAQ
How long does a scan take?
Results start arriving in about a second and finish in a few. You are standing at a table with a server waiting, so the scan is built to answer before the moment passes rather than to be thorough on its own schedule.
Can I trust the allergy flags?
Treat them as a first pass, not a clearance. Menu Scout reads what the menu prints and flags anything that touches a household allergy, but printed descriptions leave things out and kitchens change recipes. Always confirm with your server before ordering.
Does it work on a handwritten or chalkboard menu?
Usually. Legibility matters more than format — a clear photo of a chalkboard reads fine, while a glare-covered laminated page may not. If a page is too hard to read, Menu Scout says so and tells you what to re-shoot instead of guessing.
Where do the dish photos come from?
Most restaurants publish no photos, so Menu Scout builds a preview of what the dish likely looks like and reuses it whenever the same dish shows up again. A preview is an illustration of the description, not a photograph of your plate.
Do I have to set up preferences first?
No. Allergies are worth entering before your first dinner out, but everything else Homii already learned from how your household cooks and eats carries straight into the ranking.
Can I share the results with the table?
Yes. A scan gets a share link that anyone can open, and it shows the dishes and their ratings without exposing which person in your household is allergic to what.
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Menu Scout is part of Family Plus AI · 60-day trial available · Menus, dishes, and household shown above are a fictional example