For Birmingham Restaurants

Every restaurant
has a story.
Goldpan helps
diners find it.

Whether you are already transparent or working toward it, Goldpan scores your dishes, surfaces your strengths, and connects you with the diners who are actively looking for what you offer.

Stake Your Claim

The Visibility Gap

What Your Restaurant Does
Put real effort into what goes on the plate
Accommodate dietary needs and allergens
Source carefully and cook with intention
Build a menu that reflects what you believe in
Work toward more transparency every season
What Customers Currently See
A menu. A price. A photo.
No way to know what is really in the food
No signal that you care more than the place next door
No filter to find restaurants they can trust
So they guess. Or they go somewhere else.

The Diner Demand

The Diners Looking for You
Cannot Find You Yet.

Ingredient transparency in restaurants is no longer a niche concern. It is a mainstream expectation. The restaurants that meet it win.

76%
of diners say transparency in food production influences their purchasing decisions
Food Marketing Institute
75%
of diners will switch to a restaurant that provides more ingredient information — up from 39% in 2016
Label Insight / FMI
74%
of customers are more likely to return to venues with clear dietary labeling
Restaurant Technology Report 2025

How It Works

Simple Process.
No Work on Your End.

01
We Score Your Dishes
We map every dish ingredient by ingredient and score each one on a 100-point transparency scale across four dimensions. No guessing. No inference.
02
You See Your Results
Before anything goes live, you see exactly how your dishes scored and what the data shows. Your score is a starting point, not a verdict.
03
You Make Your Claims
Tell us what your restaurant stands for. The qualities you are proud of, the commitments you make to your customers, the things you want diners to know before they walk in.
04
You Confirm Your Ingredients
A simple confirmation process locks in your data and raises your score. When you confirm, your Goldpan Verified badge goes on and your dishes move up in results.
05
The Right Diners Find You
Customers filtering by allergen, dietary need, or restaurant claim see your dishes first. Your restaurant becomes the answer to the question they are already asking.

Restaurant Claims

Tell Diners What
You Stand For.

Every restaurant has qualities worth communicating. Goldpan gives you a framework to make those claims clearly and credibly, so the right diners find you for the right reasons.

Ingredient Quality
We use locally sourced ingredients
Our proteins are hormone-free
We use no artificial preservatives
Our menu changes with the season
Dietary Commitment
We have dedicated vegan options
Gluten-free preparation available
We accommodate custom allergen requests
Our kitchen follows strict allergen protocols
Kitchen Practices
Everything is made in-house
We never use frozen proteins
Our sauces are made from scratch daily
No seed oils used in cooking
Claims are yours to make. Goldpan does not assign claims to your restaurant. You tell us what your kitchen stands for and we surface those claims to diners who are filtering for exactly that. The score reflects ingredient transparency. The claims reflect your identity.

What You Get

Visibility for the
Work You Already Do.

Getting on Goldpan puts your restaurant in front of diners actively looking for what you offer, before they ever see a review.

A Transparency Score
Every dish scored on a 100-point scale across four dimensions. A clear, honest picture of where you are and a path to improve it.
Your Claims, Surfaced
The qualities your restaurant is proud of: ingredient sourcing, dietary commitments, kitchen practices. Visible to every diner who searches for them.
Filtered Discovery
Diners filtering by allergen, dietary need, or restaurant claim see your dishes in results. You stop being invisible to the customers who would choose you first.
Goldpan Verified Badge
Confirm your ingredients and your score reflects it. The verified badge signals to every diner that your restaurant went the extra mile on transparency.
Your Story Told
A dedicated restaurant page that shows your scores, your claims, and what makes your kitchen worth choosing. Built by us. Yours to share.
A Path Forward
Your score is a starting point. Every step toward more transparency raises it. Goldpan grows with you.

Restaurants on Goldpan

Already Scored.
Already Visible.

These Birmingham restaurants are already in the Goldpan database, scored, mapped, and discoverable by diners filtering for what they offer.

Founding Partner 01
Real and Rosemary
Homewood, AL
70
/100
Moderate Transparency · Top Dish
Homewood's first Goldpan founding partner. Documented allergen procedures, allergen-specific menus on request, and strong ingredient disclosure across the menu.
Founding Partner 02
Adam and Eve Cafe
Birmingham, AL
60
/100
Moderate Transparency · Top Dish
A plant-forward concept with clear vegan and vegetarian options, strong ingredient disclosure, and multiple dishes scoring above the Birmingham average.
Founding Partner 03
Chopt Creative Salad Co.
Birmingham, AL
50
/100
Building Transparency · Top Dish
A customizable salad concept with clear core ingredient disclosure across a broad menu. Strong base for score improvement through sauce and allergen confirmation.
Founding Partner 04
SoHo Social
Birmingham, AL
70
/100
Moderate Transparency · Top Dish
Birmingham's SoHo Social leads the platform with several high-scoring dishes. Strong prep disclosure, named sauces, and clear ingredient lists across the menu.
Founding Partner 05
Clean Eatz
Hoover, AL
70
/100
Moderate Transparency · Top Dish
A health-focused concept with strong allergen disclosure across all signature sauces, gluten-free protein options, and one of the most transparent menus on the platform.
The way Goldpan highlights the hard work that goes into every dish at our establishment — we love the solution this brings to the entire community and we are fully on board.
Katie Lee, Owner
Clean Eatz · Hoover, AL

Get on the Platform

Transparency Is
a Badge.
Not a Report Card.

Every restaurant deserves to be found for what it already does well. Stake your claim and let the right diners find you.

Stake Your Claim

hello@goldpanapp.com · Birmingham, AL · goldpanapp.com