Menus webhook

The menus webhook sends a message when a restaurant that uses your integration has published a change to its menus. The message payload includes the GUID of the affected restaurant and a timestamp for when the restaurant last published its menus. Having this information allows your integration client to request a new menu, keeping your integration in sync with the Toast platform. The menus webhook is the preferred method for determining if the menu data you have for a restaurant has gone stale.

If you are using the menus webhook, Toast support recommends also polling the /metadata endpoint of the menus API every 30 minutes. This provides a backup in case your integration misses a message from the menus webhook. The /metadata endpoint provides an alternative method for determining if a restaurant has published changes to its menu. Using the /metadata endpoint, you can retrieve the most recent date and time that a restaurant's menu was published. For more information on the /metadata endpoint, see Determining If a Restaurant's Menu Data Has Gone Stale.

When a message is published to your webhook endpoint for the menus event category, the eventCategory value is set to menus. Currently, menus_updated is the only eventType for the menus event category. For details on the payload for this event type, see menus_updated.