About ChainMenu

What ChainMenu is

ChainMenu is an independent project that turns restaurant nutrition disclosures into easier-to-read tables, focused item references, calculators, and comparison guides. The goal is narrow: help a reader see the exact printed serving, compare the nutrient fields that matter for a decision, and distinguish a restaurant source value from a calculated combination. ChainMenu is not a restaurant ordering service, a medical service, a brand publication, or a substitute for current ingredient and allergen information.

The initial coverage includes Chipotle Mexican Grill and Dunkin'. Brand names are used only to identify the subjects of the nutrition references. ChainMenu is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by either company, and it does not use brand logos or claim access to internal menu systems.

Where the data comes from

Chipotle nutrition values come from the Chipotle official nutrition PDF, and Dunkin' values come from the Dunkin' official nutrition PDF. The source files were retrieved August 17, 2026. The structured data preserves item names, categories, serving descriptions, calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat, sodium, sugar, and other disclosed nutrient fields when present.

Direct item pages reproduce one extracted source row. A table or paragraph labeled “combined” adds the numeric values from multiple named rows and is not a separate restaurant-published product. Unknown or unavailable values are not filled with guesses. Serving labels stay visible because a donut, donut hole, sandwich, beverage size, four-ounce protein portion, and one-ounce topping should not be treated as equivalent units.

How pages are produced and checked

The site is generated as static HTML from frozen local JSON files. Shared validation checks page titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, internal links, source and affiliation statements, word ranges, structured data, sitemap entries, and selected calculator totals. Focused pages also compare their item with a defined peer set and show common combinations as explicit arithmetic. These checks reduce transcription and navigation errors, but they cannot prove that a restaurant has not changed a recipe after the source was retrieved.

The Chipotle build-your-own calculator performs addition in the browser and does not request a remote result. It uses standard printed portions rather than attempting to infer the size of a real scoop. Comparison guides keep their source rows and serving basis visible so readers can audit the calculation instead of accepting a hidden score.

How ChainMenu is updated

ChainMenu is maintained as an independent project. Updates may follow a new official nutrition document, a material source correction, a broken source link, or a confirmed calculation or publishing defect. There is no promise that every restaurant change will appear immediately. The retrieval date on nutrition pages helps readers judge recency, and the restaurant remains the final source for current nutrition, ingredients, allergens, availability, and preparation.

Corrections are evaluated against the cited source rather than an unsupported recollection or an unlabeled third-party table. A report is most useful when it includes the page URL, the specific value or wording in question, and a link or page reference to the current restaurant disclosure.

Who maintains the project

No team size, credential, certification, laboratory capability, or named expert is claimed. The accurate description is simply that ChainMenu is an independent project. Questions, source corrections, accessibility issues, or other site feedback can be sent through the address on the contact page; a reply time is not guaranteed.