It is correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in the foodservice industry when referring to the items listed on the menu at a restaurant, cafe, or other food establishment. For example, "The new cafe has a surprisingly large selection of items on the menu!".
With alcohol one of the highest-margin items on a menu, selling beer and wine can bolster revenue.
With alcohol one of the highest-margin items on a menu, selling beer and wine can lead to increased revenue.
("That's how he talked about people, as if they were items on a menu," Catharine recalls of her cousin. " 'That one is appetizing,' or 'That one is not appetizing.' ") The director, Mark Brokaw, underlines how Catharine and her mother (played with just the right degree of fluttery greediness by Becky Ann Baker) are the inverse of Violet and Sebastian.
Not surprisingly, as I perused the suggestions like items on a menu, I noticed that most were friends with one another.
Most of the items on a menu of dozens cost less than $9.
The eligible men are laid out like items on a menu that I can scroll through by flicking my thumb.
Driving these changes will be the belated realization that newspapers are no longer the principal source of news for many of their readers, but rather one item on a menu of choices referred to throughout the day.
She's chosen roast John Dory with cauliflower (£23), as it sounds the least challenging item on a menu packed with melting tendons and vegetable granules.
At North End Grill, in Battery Park City, what is normally the most boring item on a menu — mixed greens — is transformed with an aggressive lime-and-mango-pickle number that begs to be bottled and sold at Whole Foods.
At $45, it's far and away the most expensive item on a menu that, like those at Mr. McNally's other restaurants, admirably gives diners strategies for keeping the check under control.
Even the chicken schnitzel, an eyebrow-raising item on a menu written in questionable taste — how could a tasty grilled pastrami sandwich with pickled red onion, brown mustard and Russian dressing earn the name Pistol Whip? — was acceptable despite its lack of adornment.
