Well.now publishes menu, nutrition and price information for US restaurant chains, along with guides that explain how to read that information. Those numbers get used for real decisions about what to eat and what to spend, so the standards on this page are not a formality. They set out who writes a page, what has to be true before it goes live, how a mistake gets fixed, and how you can tell us that a figure has gone stale.
The site covers US restaurants only, with prices in US dollars. Nothing here is generated automatically, pulled from a bulk feed, or copied from another site without a person reading the original source first.
What Well.now publishes
Three kinds of page make up the site. Brand pages list a chain's menu items with nutrition figures and, where we have them, prices. Tool pages let you build a meal and see totals, or work out a daily calorie budget. Guides and blog posts answer the questions people actually search for, such as what a dish contains, how a combo adds up, or how to find the real price near you.
- Brand and menu pages: items, nutrition figures, price status, source and last checked date
- Tools: a nutrition calculator and a calorie budget planner that run in your browser
- Guides and blog posts: answers to common menu, nutrition and ordering questions
- Community posts: reviews, prices paid and tips written by diners
Every one of those pages has a source behind it. A brand page names the source of its nutrition figures and the date the data was last checked. A guide names the official documents it relies on. Where we could not confirm something, the page says so instead of guessing.
How a page is researched
Research starts with the restaurant itself. For nutrition we look for the chain's own US nutrition guide, its published PDF, or the nutrition panel on its US product pages. For prices we look at the chain's own online menu. Those are the only sources we treat as fact.
When the restaurant does not publish something, we say so rather than fill the gap. A price that is not published nationally shows as Varies. Nutrition that only exists in a third-party database is labelled Estimate, and that database is named and linked so you can see exactly where the number came from.
The same rule applies to reviews. Ratings on this site come from posts diners have written here. We do not import star scores from Google, Yelp or Trustpilot and present them as our own; we link to those services so you can read them at the source.
What has to be true before a page goes live
A page is published when each of these is true. Every figure on it can be traced to a named source that a person has opened. That source is the restaurant's own US publication, or the figure is clearly labelled as an estimate with the third-party source named. The page carries a last checked date. The copy makes no claim the data cannot support, including claims about how many locations a chain has or what a meal costs.
- A named source a person has opened, not a feed
- The restaurant's own US publication, or an honest Estimate label
- A last checked date on every brand page
- No claim the listed figures cannot support
We also check the page for the habits that make a site like this useless: prices presented as national when they are one restaurant's prices, calories rounded to look neater than the source, or a review score invented to make a brand page look complete.
How numbers are labelled
Labels are the most useful thing on a data page, because they tell you how much weight a number can carry. Verified means we read it from the restaurant's own US material and linked it. Estimate means a third party published it because the restaurant's own figures could not be read for that item. Varies means there is no price we could confirm, so we print that word instead of a guess.
- Verified: read from the restaurant's own US guide or product page, linked, with a date
- Estimate: read from a named third-party database because the restaurant's own figures were unavailable
- Varies: no confirmable price, so nothing is invented
- Source and last checked date: shown on the page, not hidden
The source and the last checked date sit beside the figures rather than buried in a footnote, so you can decide in a second whether a row is current enough for what you need.
Corrections and updates
Menus change. A chain can revise a recipe, rename an item, move a dish on or off the menu, or republish its nutrition guide without telling anyone. A figure that was correct in March can be wrong by August, which is why every brand page shows the date its data was last checked.
When we find an error ourselves, we fix it and refresh the date. When you tell us, we check the source and then correct the figure, relabel it, or remove it if it cannot be supported. Corrections are made in place, so a page keeps its address and anyone who shared it still finds it.
If a figure was presented as verified and turns out not to be, we downgrade it to Estimate or drop it, and the copy explains what happened. A number should never stay on the site because removing it would look bad.
How to report outdated nutrition or prices
Write to be@well.now. The more specific the message, the faster the fix. Tell us the brand, the item, and what you saw. If you have a link to the restaurant's own page or guide that shows the current figure, include it. A photo of the menu board or the nutrition panel at the restaurant is useful too, along with the city and the date you saw it.
For prices, tell us the location you bought from and what you paid. Prices are set restaurant by restaurant in the US, so one report is a data point rather than a national price. That is why a diner's price appears on a community post with the city attached, while the price column on a brand page only shows a figure we can point to on the restaurant's own menu.
We read every message. We do not promise a fixed turnaround, but a report that arrives with a source link is usually handled in the next round of updates, and the last checked date changes when it is.
Community posts, reviews and moderation
Anyone can post on the community page without signing in. A post asks for the brand, the kind of post, a rating, what you ordered, what you paid and a short note. Posts go live as soon as they are submitted, so the page reflects what diners are saying now rather than a curated selection.
That openness has a limit. We remove posts that are abusive, that attack a person, that publish private information, that are advertising, or that are plainly fabricated. Removing a post is a judgement about conduct, not about whether we like the opinion. A low rating written honestly stays up.
Ratings on brand cards and brand pages are averages of these posts and nothing else. When a brand has no posts, the card shows links to the restaurant's review pages on Google, Yelp and Trustpilot instead of a score, because there is no honest number to show yet.
Independence, advertising and disclosure
Restaurants do not pay to be listed, and a brand page is not an advertisement. Listing a chain means we found enough of its own published data to build a page, nothing more. There is no sponsored placement, no paid ranking and no affiliate redirect anywhere on the site.
We do not run advertising or tracking scripts, and we do not sell visitor data. Calculator and planner inputs stay in your browser. Some links point outward to a restaurant's own site, to its nutrition guide, or to a review service, and those exist so you can check a figure at the source. Where a link goes to a third-party database rather than the restaurant, the label says so.
Frequently asked questions
Do you write articles automatically?
No. A person writes the copy and checks the numbers against a named source before a page goes live. If a figure cannot be traced to a source, it is labelled an estimate or left out.
How quickly will you fix a wrong figure?
A report that includes a link to the restaurant's own page or guide is usually handled in the next round of updates. We check the source, then correct, relabel or remove the figure and refresh the last checked date.
Will you delete a number just because I disagree with it?
Not on its own. If the number matches the restaurant's published guide, it stays, because other readers need the same reference. If you can show the source says something different, we will change it.
Do restaurants pay to be listed?
No. Listing means we found enough of the chain's own published data to build a page. There is no sponsored placement and no paid ranking anywhere on the site.
Can I quote your figures?
Yes, with a link back to the page you took them from, and with the source and last checked date mentioned so your readers know how current the number is.
What if a brand I want is not listed?
Tell us at be@well.now. A brand page needs the chain's own US nutrition guide or product pages before it can be published, so a request without those may take longer.
The takeaway
Every figure on Well.now is either traceable to a restaurant's own US publication, clearly labelled as an estimate with its third-party source named, or left out. If you find something out of date, write to be@well.now with the brand, the item and a link or photo, and the page gets checked, corrected and re-dated.