Menu generation system

A menu generation method for generating a menu of a restaurant in multiple languages, comprising:

• storing, in a memory, one or more menu item properties including at least any one set of a plurality of ingredients that are used in menu items, a plurality of seasonings that are used in the menu items, or a plurality of cooking styles of the menu items;
• storing, in the memory, a correspondence relation between each of the one or more menu item properties in a first language and a corresponding menu item property in at least one second language that is different from the first language;
• storing, in the memory, the one or more menu item properties corresponding to a menu item category to which any one of the menu item belongs;
• provide, via a network to a display of an information terminal that is used at the restaurant, a menu generation management window in the first language for generating a menu in the second language, the menu generation management window including first through fourth areas, the first area including a menu item name input area, the second area including a menu item image input area, the third area including a menu item category input area, and the fourth area including a menu item property input area,
• receiving, via the network from the information terminal, input of a menu item name in the first language through the menu item name input area in the menu generation management window on the information terminal;
• providing, via the network to the display of the information terminal, a graphical representation of a menu item image input operation section in the second area;
• receiving, via the network from the information terminal, input of an operation of the graphical representation of the menu item image input operation section;
• providing, via the network to the display of the information terminal, a graphical representation of a menu item category input operation section in the third area;
• receiving, via the network from the information terminal, input of an operation of the graphical representation of the menu item category input operation section;
• providing, via the network to the display of the information terminal, a plurality of the menu item categories displayable as a first plurality of selectable choices in the first language in the menu item category input area in response to the receipt of the input of the operation of the graphical representation of the menu item category input operation section;
• receiving, via the network from the information terminal, input of a selection of a menu item category in the first language from the plurality of the menu item categories displayed as the first plurality of selectable choices in the first language in the menu item category input area of the menu generation management window;
• extracting, from the memory, choices of available menu item properties in the first language included in the one or more menu item properties corresponding to the selected menu item category in the first language in response to the receipt of the input of the selection of the menu item category in the first language, each extracted choice of the menu item properties having the correspondence relation between the first language and the at least one second language stored in the memory;
• providing, via the network to the information terminal, the extracted choices of the available menu item properties in the first language displayable as a second plurality of selectable choices in the first language in the menu item property input area of the menu generation management window;
• receiving, via the network from the information terminal, input of a selection of a menu item property in the first language from among the choices of the menu item properties displayed as the second plurality of selectable choices in the first language in the menu item property input area of the menu generation management window on the information terminal,
• automatically determining the menu item property in the second language corresponding to the selected menu item property in the first language on the basis of the correspondence relation in response to the receipt of the input of the selection of the menu item property in the first language;
• storing the received menu item name in the first language and the determined menu item property in the second language in the memory;
• and
• generating the menu including the received menu item name in the first language, the menu item image, the selected menu item category in the second language, and the determined menu item property in the second language.