Late Friday, Google announced on Google+ that they now show restaurant menus in the search results. This is something we noticed a few weeks ago and now Google has confirmed this is indeed officially out there.
Search for your favorite place to eat plus menu and Google may show the menus they have to offer. Google said:
I am a bit surprised they made no mention of how webmasters can help Google get their menus. No type of data feed or rich snippet details. Google may simply (well, it isn’t so simple) crawl the site and parse out the menus automatically. Or maybe some restaurants have a special deal with Google?
Forum discussion at Google+.
Update: Glenn Gabe thinks the menus are sourced from SinglePlatform.com:
