AI menu translation for travelers in Japan, with ingredients, allergens, photos and dish descriptions.
🇯🇵 Setagaya, Tokyo · 2–10 people
MENUWIZ K.K. is a Tokyo company that builds an AI translation tool made only for food. Travelers photograph a menu and get translations with ingredients, allergens, photos and descriptions. The AI output is vetted by professional translators. The company also works with restaurants, ordering-system providers and local governments to offer multilingual menus. It was founded by Sydney Seekford, a food and travel photojournalist.
MENUWIZ invites travelers to register as beta testers and restaurants to contact it for early adopter rates. It offers integrations to ordering-system providers and partnerships to local governments. It also welcomes volunteers and team members with language expertise.
Translates restaurant menus with ingredients, photos and descriptions.
Who it's for: International travelers and diners with allergies or dietary needs
Professional menu translation and an in-app page for partner restaurants.
Who it's for: Restaurants that serve international visitors
Adds detailed, accurate food translation to other ordering systems and to destination marketing.
Who it's for: Food delivery apps, QR ordering and POS providers, local governments and destination marketing organizations
Individual travelers visiting Japan use the app. Restaurants join as partners to serve international guests.
“Our MENUWIZ subscription might have been the best money we spent all trip!”
“MENUWIZ is the only way we got to try so many delicious dishes in Japan. It even handled up and down menus in handwriting.”
“We can feel confident even when tourists visit the store. We're glad we partnered early on.”
The company showed a prototype demo in March 2025 and ran a presale from May to August 2025. The app is in beta with individual testers and early restaurant partners.