The Hidden Twist In The Menu Ending

Ok so big spoilers for the ending of The Menu and the main plot of the movie.

Turn it off now if you haven’t had a chance to see it.

Now The Menu seemingly ends with Anya Taylor Joy’s character Margot escaping the Island. In it we watch as Julian Slowik slowly serves his perfect menu which enacts revenge on some shady diners who all have a nefarious past. Especially the actor…your movie ruined the one Sunday he had off.

Anyway, we learn that Margot is a woman of the night and thus she’s very much in the service industry similar to him and all his other chefs. After discovering a back room that has photos of Julian she comes across one where he seems to genuinely be happy and this calls back to his days as a hamburger chef in a fast food joint. Come the end of the film she stands up to say that he doesn’t make food with love anymore and she requests a cheeseburger which he makes whilst likely remembering why he fell in love with food in the first place.

She requests it to go and is set free but there might be a darker side to this. Throughout the movie, Julian constantly says that everyone must die and thus if they don’t the Menu won’t be completed.

I actually think it’s possible that Margot does die and this final bite that we see her taking has a double layer to it. Look how it plays out with this in mind.

Now, what are the clues for this?

Well, earlier in the movie we watch as the diners are given a tour of the island and they’re taken to a shed where the meat from dairy cows is aged for 152 days.

We’re also told that if this goes over one day that this will happen.

Now, what if the burger that Margot has at the end is actually made from this meat and this final bit could be her sealing her fate. She’s stranded out in the sea with the boat shutting down; this could’ve also been planned by Julian in case anyone escapes the island. Just seems weird that we get such a strong focus on the cow meat and then the boat shuts down before we get the final bite to that sinister music.

Now, this definitely might not be the case and it could be a happy ending but I just thought I’d break down a different way to look at the end.

Obviously, let me know if you agree or not and if you wanna see our full breakdown of the ending then that’ll be linked on screen right now.