In reply to Justin Tadlock.

I've been itching to get a look at your plugin for a while. Great to see you've finally released it! I really wish you had responded when I contacted you last year asking to get involved. I was in the middle of writing my own solution, but would have happily jumped on your bandwagon. Without any communication from you regarding what kind of hooks you were planning, the template system you envisioned, long-term development plans, etc, I had to push forward with my own solution.

I appreciate that the plugin may have been too early in development to bring in contributors/collaborators you don't know, and fully understand your position. But to help me decide whether to push forward with my platform now or join forces with yours, can you provide some information regarding your plans for the following:

1. How do you plan to handle the sorting and display demands of a restaurant menu?

One of the reasons I was dissatisfied with existing solutions is that they all handled menus like any other custom post types -- posts with archives. But restaurant managers typically want their online menus to mimic real-world menus, which means precise control over sorting order, categorization, multiple menus (I recently had a client with 3 menus for each of their 8 locations), etc.

I can see that you plan to add taxonomies for meal times and courses, but from my experience the jump from data structure to presentation is incredibly difficult for lay-users (ie - customers). Have you considered any kind of layout manager? I know you want to keep the base plugin simple. I'm wondering how much of the sorting and display logic you plan to bake into the plugin or whether all of this will need to be handled with separate addons.

2. Do you have any plans for integrating an addon shop into the plugin, or providing a centralized location for plugin authors to promote and sell their addons? EDD, for instance, provides strong sales opportunities for third-party authors. But not everyone is as welcoming. What are your plans in this regards?