# Menu Publishing

Publishing the customer-facing menus of several brewery-restaurant Sites. A Site serves photographed pages of its printed menus, grouped into Sections and published as Menu Sets.

## Language

### Structure

**Site identity**:
The restaurant's name, tagline, icon and display switches, as customers see them. Edited in the admin, stored in the Site's data rather than its configuration.
_Avoid_: brand config, theme

**Site**:
One restaurant's customer-facing menu deployment, with its own brand, Sections and content. Each Site runs its own instance of the app.
_Avoid_: brand, tenant, deployment, instance

**Section**:
A top-level category of menu content that customers choose between, such as Food, Bar or What's On. Sections are content: the owner adds and renames them in the admin.
_Avoid_: type, tab, folder

The admin, and the owner, say **category** where the code and this glossary say Section. The two words mean the same thing; the code keeps Section so the storage layout, routes and manifests stay consistent.

**Menu Set**:
One complete set of Pages published together for a Section, with a label and an optional valid-until date.
_Avoid_: menu, version, batch, upload, album

**Page**:
One image within a Menu Set, in a deliberate order; usually a photographed page of a printed menu.
_Avoid_: sheet, slide, image, photo

**Poster**:
A Page whose content is an event or seasonal creative rather than a menu, published in the What's On Section.
_Avoid_: flyer, banner, creative

### Publication

**Draft**:
A Menu Set that has been uploaded but is not visible to customers.

**Current**:
The single published Menu Set per Section that customers see.
_Avoid_: live, active, main

**Archive**:
A Menu Set that was once Current and has been superseded. Reachable by direct URL, never listed in customer navigation.
_Avoid_: old menu, history, expired, past

**Publish**:
The act of making a Draft Current, which archives the Menu Set that was Current before it.
_Avoid_: release, deploy, go live

### Images

**Original**:
The uploaded image as stored, kept so that viewing images and thumbnails can be regenerated. Never served to customers.
_Avoid_: source, master, full-size

**Viewing image**:
The wide image shown on a Section page and opened by tap-to-zoom.
_Avoid_: preview, display image

**Thumbnail**:
The small image used only inside the admin.
_Avoid_: preview, grid image

### Surfaces

**Landing page**:
The Site root, listing the Sections that have a Current Menu Set.
_Avoid_: home, index

**Admin**:
The password-protected area where a Menu Set is uploaded, ordered, previewed and published.
_Avoid_: dashboard, CMS, back office