Developed by Kasavana and Smith (Michigan State University School of Hotel and Restaurant Management) in 1982.
It is a marketing oriented approach for the evaluation of current and future menu pricing, design and content decisions. It focuses on:
Customer demand
Menu mix analysis
Item contribution margins
MENENG analyzes menu groups separately. Thus, for every group a "Popularity" and a "Contribution Margin" analysis is performed, in order to determine different actions to be implemented.