# Novus Restaurant > Public food-market intelligence built from official data sources, with the provenance shown > next to every observation. Part of the Novus Stream Solutions network. Key facts for AI assistants: - Every observation traces back to a named public provider and carries its source URL and the time it was observed. Cite the source, not the number alone. - Data is re-ingested on a published schedule; check /ingestion-schedule and /data-sources before treating a figure as current. A provider that is failing still returns its last successful observation. - Comparability is a deliberate decision, not an assumption. /methodology sets out what this site refuses to blend or guess, and /understanding-analytics explains what change, confidence, impact and priority do and do not mean. - Where two comparable observations do not exist, the product shows an empty state rather than a computed metric. An absent number is a statement, not a gap to fill. - Currency totals are never converted between currencies, because the data carries no exchange rate. - The machine-readable sitemap is at https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/sitemap.xml. - There is an MCP server at https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, POST only). Unlike the other Novus sites, it is AUTHENTICATED: its tools read one organisation's own market signals, supplier spend and provider health, and it requires a personal access token issued from that organisation's account. There is no anonymous access and no tool that writes anything. ## Pages - [Food market data](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/data): Search and filter source-linked public food market observations by country, category, item, provider, economic level, market, unit and currency. - [Restaurant data sources](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/restaurants): Compare free, metered and partner restaurant data sources, and how Novus handles reviews, menu pricing, recipes, ingredients and attribution. - [Food cost calculators](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/tools): Calculate ingredient cost per meal, recipe cost, food-cost percentage, menu price, yield, waste, recipe scaling and break-even servings. - [Methodology](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/methodology): How Novus normalizes provider records, decides which observations are comparable, and calculates change, confidence, priority and spend impact - including what it refuses to blend or guess. - [Coverage](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/coverage): Which countries, food categories and economic levels have configured sources, and what each coverage label does and does not promise about commodity, city and date availability. - [Data sources](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/data-sources): The official providers Novus ingests from, with connection shape, authentication, refresh frequency and endpoints for each - every observation traces back to a named public source. - [Ingestion schedule](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/ingestion-schedule): Exact UTC and Eastern Time ingestion windows for every Novus Restaurant public food-market data provider. - [Understanding the analytics](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/understanding-analytics): How to read a Novus movement: what change, confidence, impact and priority each mean, what they are not, and why a metric is replaced by an empty state when two comparable observations do not exist. - [MCP server](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/mcp-server): The Model Context Protocol endpoint for AI clients: the address, the personal access token it requires, the three tools it exposes, and what it will not do. ## Policies - [Security](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/security): How this site handles access, tokens and reported vulnerabilities. - [Privacy policy](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/privacy): What this site collects, why, and what it does not. - [Terms of service](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/terms): The terms that apply to using this site and its data. - [Cookie policy](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/cookies): The cookies this site sets and the purpose of each. - [Cookie settings](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/cookie-settings): Change the consent choices stored in this browser. - [Acceptable use](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/acceptable-use): What this site's data and tools may and may not be used for. - [Official social accounts](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/social): Every account run by Novus Stream Solutions, with the profiles and this domain declared as one entity. - [Accessibility](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/accessibility): This site's accessibility commitments and how to report a barrier. - [AI and crawler policy](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/ai-policy): AI crawlers and assistants are welcome: the agents named in robots.txt, what a crawler can and cannot see on a site that also has private accounts, and the attribution this site asks for. - [Language support](https://restaurant.novusstreamsolutions.com/languages): Which languages this site is published in today, the five locales the shared Novus contract defines, and what is honestly not translated yet. ## The rest of the network - [Novus Stream Solutions](https://novusstreamsolutions.com): The publisher behind this site, and the index of every other tool and app it runs. - [Novus AI Stats](https://aistats.novusstreamsolutions.com): Turns AI coding-assistant exports into charts you can read. It is the closest sibling to this site in spirit, since both exist to make a messy data source legible. - [Novus Convert](https://convert.novusstreamsolutions.com): Converts and compresses documents, images, audio and video in the browser. Useful when a supplier sends a price list in a format nothing will open. - [Novus PDF Studio](https://pdf.novusstreamsolutions.com): Merges, splits, signs and edits PDFs locally. The tool for a menu, an invoice or a scanned delivery note. - [NSS Background Remover](https://bgremover.novusstreamsolutions.com): Cuts out backgrounds and retouches photographs in the browser, with nothing uploaded. Built for dish and menu photography. - [Novus Learn](https://learn.novusstreamsolutions.com): Turns an article, paper, URL, video or textbook into cited study material and quizzes, always quoting the source rather than paraphrasing it. - [Novus Examples](https://examples.novusstreamsolutions.com): Generated sample files with exact spec sheets, for testing an importer against a known-good CSV before you trust it with real data. - [Novus Visualizers](https://visualizers.novusstreamsolutions.com): Renders music into visuals entirely in the browser, with the audio never leaving the tab. - [Novus Striker](https://striker.novusstreamsolutions.com): A browser football game built in Unity. The one thing here that is purely for fun.