🧠 SmartMenu MCP Server

🧠 SmartMenu MCP Server

This is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for SmartMenu, an AI-powered assistant that helps customers interact with restaurant menus through natural language.

The MCP server acts as a bridge between large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and your structured menu data. It exposes tools and resources that allow the model to reason over real menus and provide grounded, context-aware recommendations.

📦 Features

• Exposes structured menus as resources to the LLM
• Provides a rich set of tools for:
  • Finding menus by name or ID
  • Filtering dishes by dietary tags, price, or restrictions
  • Listing all available menus and tags
  • Returning full details for specific menu items
• Connects to a real backend API via REST
• Built with the official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk

🧱 Architecture

Frontend (React) ←→ Backend (Express + DB)
                          ↓
                    [SmartMenu MCP]
                          ↓
                LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/logeshselvam/mcp-server.git
cd mcp-server

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Run the inspector:

npm run inspect

4. Test with Cursor: Open Cursor setting and add the following:

"smart-menu": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "--silent",
        "--prefix",
        // your project path, you can find it using `pwd` command
        "run",
        "dev"
      ]
  }