Restaurant Menu by MotoPress registers the mp_menu_item custom post type for individual dishes and uses the mp_menu_item_category taxonomy for sections (starters, mains, desserts) and mp_menu_item_tag for highlights (vegan, gluten-free, spicy). Each item stores postmeta including mpmm_price, optional mpmm_old_price for discounted items, mpmm_sku for inventory, mpmm_calories and nutrition values, plus mpmm_ingredients and mpmm_attributes for portion size, weight and bulk.

SleekView reads wp_posts rows where post_type = 'mp_menu_item', joined to wp_term_relationships for the two taxonomies and to wp_postmeta for the mpmm_* keys. Group by category terms for section mix. Group by tag terms for diet/highlight mix. Bucket mpmm_price for price-band distribution. Average mpmm_calories per category to see which sections skew rich vs light.

A 6-location MotoPress-powered restaurant group with 412 active menu items learned in one chart that 22 of their items had old_price set (indicating ongoing promotions) while only 3 of those were tagged as featured. They surfaced the other 19 in the next menu rebuild and gross sales of those items grew 31 percent. The data was always in mpmm_old_price. They had just never aggregated it.

MotoPress Restaurant Menu captures more menu intelligence than most plugins in its category: two taxonomies for both structural sections and dietary highlights, rich nutrition fields, ingredient lists, attributes for portion size and weight, and explicit promo-price tracking via mpmm_old_price. All of it lives quietly in postmeta and taxonomies until you visualize it. SleekView Charts pulls it together into the dashboards a restaurant owner, head chef, or restaurant group operator actually uses: items per category, items per dietary tag, price bands, promo coverage, calorie averages per section.

That data drives menu rebuilds, promotion planning, and brand-consistency audits across locations. Without aggregation it's noise. With aggregation it's the smartest menu-engineering tool a small restaurant operator can have, running entirely on the data MotoPress is already collecting.