Behind the Data
How We Actually Verify a Restaurant's Menu Prices
A behind-the-scenes look at three real research cases: a Cloudflare block, a location switch that never worked, and a live order flow that did.
Published September 16, 2026 · 8 min read · USA Menu Finder Editorial Team
Our menu data methodology page states the rules we follow: official sources first, no invented figures, mark it unavailable rather than guess. What that looks like in practice varies a lot from restaurant to restaurant. Here are three real cases from building this site: one source that blocked us outright, one that never worked no matter what we tried, and one that just worked.
Case 1: Checkers, and a site that wouldn't load at all
Checkers' own site, checkers.com, and its parent site returned a Cloudflare “Attention Required” bot-verification page on every attempt, direct requests included. DoorDash returned the same kind of block. We don't attempt to bypass bot-detection, so both of those sources produced nothing.
Uber Eats did load, for one specific restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland. That storefront became the source for every price and item description on the Checkers page, including its Big Buford at $9.78. We supplemented it with Checkers' own official nutrition and allergen PDF for calories and macros, since that document loaded fine even though the ordering site didn't. The page says exactly this: delivery-platform pricing for one restaurant, not a national or in-store price list.
Case 2: 7 Brew, and a source that never came together
7 Brew doesn't list prices on its own menu, and it takes orders mainly through its mobile app, which has no public price list we could read. We tried its delivery listings next, and neither DoorDash nor Uber Eats returned a usable 7 Brew storefront for us either.
We also tried switching the delivery order location to a different market, the same technique that worked for Checkers, in case a different city would surface a working storefront. It didn't. After repeated attempts across coordinate clicks, direct link parameters, and the city and zip autocomplete on 7 Brew's own site, none produced a selectable, priced result.
At that point the honest answer was to stop and mark it. The 7 Brew menu page states plainly that pricing is unavailable, explains exactly what we tried, and shows every drink's name, description, and (where 7 Brew's own nutrition guide covers it) calories, without a single invented price next to any of them.
Case 3: Little Caesars, and a source that just worked
Little Caesars doesn't publish one national price list either, but its own ordering system shows full pricing the moment you pick a restaurant, no delivery platform detour needed. We entered a zip code, picked a restaurant with full online ordering, and its own pickup menu listed every item, calorie count, and price directly, including its Classic Pepperoni at $8.99. We cross-checked a sample of those calorie figures against Little Caesars' own downloadable nutrition PDF, and they matched closely enough to trust the rest of the document for full macro and allergen detail.
The pattern underneath all three
The method doesn't change: official source first, real ordering data over a stale PDF where both exist, and a clear unavailable label instead of a guess when nothing official comes through. What changes is how much work it takes to reach that official source, and sometimes, like with 7 Brew, the honest result is that we couldn't reach it at all. That gets stated directly on the page rather than papered over.
For the full source list behind any restaurant on this site, open its menu page and scroll to Sources & methodology, or read the full methodology.