The menu audits that I have seen require photographs of EVERY menu. Lunch, dinner, breakfast, senior citizen, dessert, drink, late night, etc. While there are people who claim to have easily asked for every menu to show people in the car, I find the likelihood of success to be too low for me to want to bother. I had a scheduler tell me to take the menus into the bathroom with me to photograph them. I am happy to leave all of the menu audits for others.
Years ago, I accepted assignments where I was supposed to go into places like Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, etc. and take photographs of every menu board without being detected,. I was naive. I got detected. I got thrown out (well, asked to leave). Those of you who can do this successfully are welcome to them. I have done a few fast food menu boards where I know the exact layout of the restaurant and know that I can sit down and take photographs without standing in front of the counter. Despite some success, I have stopped doing those also.
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008