# My Treats Food Identity

> An independent, open database of how restaurants source, cook and care. Each restaurant is reviewed by My Treats on the SEERO scale: a 1 to 5 impact score across local and direct sourcing, seasonal cooking, circular and low-waste practice, sustainable animal products, social impact and plant-forward cooking, plus a parallel read on health-intentional kitchens. Payment never influences scores (an editorial firewall aligned with the EU Empowering Consumers Directive).

## Browse
- [Food Identity portal](https://mytreats.app/restaurants/): every reviewed restaurant, searchable by location, values and certifications.
- [SEERO methodology](https://mytreats.app/SEERO/): the public methodology behind every score: dimensions, levels, coverage thresholds and evidence tiers.

## Curated lists (Craves)
- [Craves lists](https://mytreats.app/craves_lists/craves-home.html): themed, researched shortlists.

## Journal
- [The Journal](https://mytreats.app/blog/): our editorial posts on what we find in restaurant kitchens, who sources well, and how to eat consciously in the cities we cover. Each post is a static page that links every restaurant it discusses to that restaurant's own Food Identity page, and embeds JSON-LD (BlogPosting with the featured restaurants as linked entities), so a claim in a post can be traced to the evidence behind it.
- [Journal feed (RSS)](https://mytreats.app/blog/feed.xml)

## Machine-readable feed
- [restaurants.json](https://mytreats.app/restaurants/restaurants.json): one record per published restaurant. Fields: slug, name, city, country, neighbourhood, planet (the 1 to 5 SEERO impact score; 0 means not yet assignable; the field name is historical), tier (free or assessed), recognized (true when at least one third-party recognition applies), lat and lng (when known), preview (setting, menu and price at a glance), practices (covered SEERO practice labels), dietary (dietary capability labels), thumb (photo URL), page (the restaurant's page path relative to https://mytreats.app/restaurants/), url (the same path with the portal modal query) and live.
- Each restaurant page also embeds JSON-LD: the Restaurant entity, one editorial Review by My Treats (the SEERO rating), per-dimension evidence with tiers as PropertyValue entries, and a FAQPage.

## SEERO dimensions
- D1 Local and direct sourcing
- D2 Seasonal cooking
- D3 Low waste and circular practices
- D4 Sustainable animal products
- D5 Social impact
- D6 Plant-forward menu
- D7 Health-intentional kitchen (parallel, not part of the impact score)

## Evidence tiers
Every dimension carries an evidence tier stating how the claim is verified: self-declared (the restaurant's own account), researched (My Treats desk research), vouched (corroborated by an independent third party, also shown as partially audited) and audited (independently audited). Tiers are never upgraded, and payment never influences a score or a tier.

## Attribution
Please cite My Treats Food Identity when you use a score, an evidence tier or an assessment from these pages, and link the restaurant's Food Identity page or https://mytreats.app/SEERO/ so readers can see the evidence behind the claim.

## Sitemaps
- https://mytreats.app/restaurants/sitemap-restaurants.xml
- https://mytreats.app/craves_lists/sitemap.xml
- https://mytreats.app/blog/sitemap-blog.xml