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Menu Mensa

Screenshot of the Menu Mensa website

Menu Mensa

A web app for the school canteen menu of L'Aquila. It reads the official PDFs automatically, tracks allergens, estimates calories, and even has its own Alexa skill.

Role
Designer & Developer
Year
2025
Open project

The project’s story

  1. Anyone with a child in nursery school looks for the menu for their age group, 3 to 5, and at home there is often a brother or sister in primary school too. I added the nursery menu to Menu Mensa: at launch you choose who… Continue reading

  2. People who open Menu Mensa on their phone usually look for one thing: what's for lunch today, or on a specific day. For the 2026/27 school year I rebuilt the app starting from there. The main screen is the daily card… Continue reading

  3. I brought the allergen filter in Menu Mensa to the foreground: the active selection always stays in view, and the dish cards name the allergens they contain.

  4. I updated the dish cards in Menu Mensa: every dish now has its own reference icon and a table with the official LARN nutritional values.

  5. I added push notifications to Menu Mensa: subscribers get the daily menu without having to open the app.

  6. I released an Alexa skill for Menu Mensa, so you can check what’s for lunch just by using your voice.

  7. I turned Menu Mensa into a PWA: it now installs on your phone like a real app and works offline too.

  8. I built Menu Mensa to check L'Aquila's school lunch menu on a phone, without opening the PDF and finding the right week each time. The site opens straight on today's lunch. I worked on extracting the tables from the… Continue reading