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7 Aug 2026

Illustration of a wooden crate of tomatoes, peppers, lemons and greens beside a kitchen scale holding a wedge of cheese, with blank paper slips on the table

Food prices are easing, menu prices are not: what to do with your menu in 2026

UK shop food inflation has fallen to its lowest in almost two years, while prices in restaurants and hotels are rising at more than twice that rate. Why that gap exists, why your invoices may tell a different story, and how to reprice without guessing.

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Francesco Boffa

8 May 2024

An editorial illustration of a printed menu lying on a wooden bistro table with a single dish illustration above it, glyphs from multiple writing systems flowing softly across the composition

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Multilingual menus: where machine translation gets it wrong, and how we catch it

Machine translation is good enough for prose and dangerous for menus. Dishes are full of proper nouns, regional terms and cultural context that NMT systems mis-handle in specific, repeatable ways. Here is what we have seen go wrong, why, and the review gate ORDR builds in.

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Francesco Boffa

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