Name Period Date Due Dates: What s on the Menu? Planning Sheet Check Rough Draft Check Final Draft Due READ: Restaurant owners must appeal to their customers senses and make them want to order food. Your job is to create an interesting, delicious, restaurant menu! Your end product will be a menu, typed and printed in color. You will have a specific type of restaurant from the choices below. The focus of the menu is: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositional phrases DO : Your mission is to create the most interesting, delicious, scrumptious, mouth watering, tantalizing, colorful, tasteful, tempting restaurant menu you can imagine! You will create a menu for a specific type of restaurant. Ideas to consider include: a pancake/waffle house, pizza place, ice cream parlor, sandwich shop, coffee shop, steak house, seafood restaurant My chosen/assigned restaurant is
INCLUDE: You must complete each of the following items: 1. Design a colorful, interesting cover with the name of your restaurant and a picture. 2. Create at least TEN food items to put on your menu. Think about how you will name each item. What is more appetizing and easier to imagine: chicken or rosemary grilled chicken breast? 3. Include a realistic price and short delicious description for each item. 4. Separate your menu into different categories: Appetizers, Soup of the Day, Salads, Entrees, Side Orders, Beverages, Desserts, Specials, etc. Once you are finished: 5. Neatly underline exactly TEN different adjectives in red. 6. Neatly underline exactly TEN different nouns in yellow. 7. Neatly underline exactly THREE different verbs in green. 8. Neatly underline exactly THREE different adverbs in blue. 9. Neatly underline exactly THREE different prepositional phrases in brown. *Do NOT underline more than the specified number for each part of speech.
Planning Sheet: What kind of restaurant have you chosen? What is your restaurant s name? What categories will be on your food menu (Appetizers, Soup of the Day, Salads, Entrees, Side Orders, Beverages, Desserts, Specials, etc.) You must have at least three but no more than five? Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 (optional) Category 5 (optional) What TEN (or more) food items will you include? List the price for each. 1. Item Price 2. Item Price 3. Item Price 4. Item Price 5. Item Price 6. Item Price
7. Item Price 8. Item Price 9. Item Price 10. Item Price Any other items?
CREATE: For the menu document you will create and print (using color), and complete the following items to make it amazing! 1. Your menu layout may be a paper tri fold, a bi fold, or front and back. 2. Create a name for your restaurant that is original and creative, but fits the type of food served. 3. Find a color picture that represents your restaurant. Make sure it fits the feel you want your establishment to have. 4. Separate your menu into at least three different sections/categories (Select from: Appetizers, Soups, Salads, Side Dishes, Entrees, Specialty Beverages, Desserts, Chef s Specials) 5. Create ten (10) food items to put on your menu. You will need to consider appropriate names and delicious descriptions for each of your dishes. 6. Include a realistic price for each menu item. 7. Your final product will be one paper document (this may be a printed front and back sheet, two printed pages inserted in a clear pocket page, two pages glued to a piece of construction paper, two pages taped together along the edge, but it is only one paper document). 8. If you would like, you may include a few pictures throughout the menu to entice your customers (3 5). Example : Succulent Succotash Symphony $8.50 When you take a bite of Succulent Succotash, a blend of the best organically grown vegetables create a symphony of summer in your mouth. Bright flavors of sweet corn, perfectly cooked beans, and sun ripened tomatoes combine with our own special seasoning for a tasty delight. Enjoy this dish with our fresh warm bread.