Tag:diet:meat=yes
 diet:meat = yes
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| This establishment offers a primarily meat-focussed menu |
| Group: food and beverages |
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| Status: in use |
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While the exact semantics of this tag are unclear (having grown organically), one reasonable definition is that diet:meat=yes strongly implies that the facility tagged with it offers a predominantly meat-focussed menu or caters mostly, if not exclusively, to the more carnivorously inclined customer. That is, the point-of-interest is very much meat-centric. Examples include steak-houses and barbecue restaurants or fast-food joints primarily selling kebab, hotdogs, or currywurst.
At first glance this tag may seem silly next to more well-defined tags such diet:vegetarian=*, but it has some valid uses:
- It allows users who really love meat to search for amenities that cater to this preference.
- Similarly, it allows users who would like to avoid a restaurant where the majority of dishes include meat to do so.
Of course, in the latter case searching for diet:vegetarian=only is an option if a restaurant that caters explicitly to vegetarians (or vegans if diet:vegan=* is used) is desired, but for a group of people where some would like a main course with meat and some want vegetarian options that go beyond just one or two entries in the menu, this may be a useful criteria to limit their search results to.
How to tag
Simply add diet:meat=yes. Consider adding diet:vegetarian=* and diet:vegan=* as well. If raw or unsweetened meat is offered, feel free to add diet:keto=yes.
Place in the diet-namespace
This tag is a bit odd, given that people don't normally restrict their diet to just meat (not if they want to live in good health as well). Whereas diet:vegan=* or diet:gluten_free=* are examples of diet tags that are defined by their avoidance of certain foodstuffs. Still, with over a thousand uses it seems to have some utility. People wanting to be more specific could use cuisine=* instead (e.g., wings, steak, sausage, beef_bowl, kebab, steak_house, barbecue, yakiniku, etc.; or a combination of them separated by semicolon).
Possible tagging mistakes
- Don't use
diet:meat=noto indicate that the food on offer is vegetarian or vegan. Just leave outdiet:meat=*and usediet:vegetarian=onlyordiet:vegan=only.
History
Before 2021, many points (as in 36 of the 70 unmodified till 2026, ie half) are used together with diet:vegetarian=yes , suggesting those are used to mean the features have both options. However, diet:vegetarian=yes alone still means there may be meat, and doesn't need this added. diet:vegetarian=only would be what's used to show there's no meat.
A similar diet:chicken=* saw increased use in 2022. Both of them may be mistakes of cuisine=chicken , and other cuisine=* already meaning meat-focused.