Menu

Mmmmmm! Doesn't that food look good!? Hey, that's what Denny's is counting on. You see nice looking food and it makes you hungry. For this assignment you will design a menu for a restaurant. Come up with an idea for a restaurant. It can be a fine food place (like biagis) or medium quality (like steak and shake), but needs to be a "real" restaurant. No joke ideas like road-kill cafe or cannibal cafe.

• Minimum sizes:
  • height 14 Inches -
  • width 9 inches (each page) 18 inches total width
• minimum sizes
  • height 8 inches
  • width 6 inches (each page) 12 inches total width

Here are some considerations for this type of design

• Logo for restaurant - You menu will look a lot more professional if you have a realistic looking logo for the restaurant name.
• Catagories of food - Apetizers, Drinks, Kids Meals should all be well defined areas on your menu.
• Use of graphic elements - Not necessarily just pictures of food. Use colored shapes to help draw people's eyes to specific parts of the menu like the Catagories. The graphics should match the kind of restaurant you are working on.
• Pictures - Appetizing pictures of food may be hard to find on the internet, but can really make you menu look professional.
• Type
  • Should be appropriate for the type of food you serve. For example a rib joint would have use something bold, and a french restaurant might use something in a script.
  • At least 3 or 4 levels.
    • Restaurant name should be large
    • Catagories should be medium-large
    • Entree, appetizer etc. should be medium-small
    • Food descriptions and prices should be small
    • Use addtional leading if needed to enhance and improve readability
    • Consider using colored type to get the viewer's attention.
  • Restaurant name and catagories should probably be an easy to read novelty font.
  • Food catagories, price, address and phone numbers should be san serif or something else as long as it's really easy to read.
• Margins - Type shouldn't be too close to the edge of the menu.