An urgent correction to this page
An earlier version of this article listed the Reuben Burger, the Burgerlite and the YT Sliders under a heading that read “Vegan Burgers”. All three are beef.
Yours Truly’s own menu places every one of them inside a section headed “The Burger Bar — Fresh 8 oz. Certified Angus Beef.” The Reuben Burger is described by the restaurant as “Sauerkraut and Swiss on grilled Jewish rye” — an eight-ounce beef patty with Swiss cheese. The Burgerlite is the same beef patty served without a bun. The YT Sliders are “Four mini burgers topped with grilled onion, pickle and melted American on seared fresh baked slider buns”, and the old version of this page told readers that leaving off the cheese would make them “100% vegan.”
It would not. It would leave four beef sliders.
The same page also recommended Starter Sliders under “Vegan Starters” — Yours Truly describes those as “Two mini burgers topped with grilled onion, pickle and melted American” — and recommended The Envelope under “Vegan Main Dishes” while naming the muenster cheese in it.
We are stating this plainly rather than quietly editing it, because people make real dietary decisions on pages like this one, and this was the worst error we found anywhere in this review. All of it has been removed.
A second correction: the website
yourstruly.com is not the restaurant. It resolves to a domain-parking page offering the name for sale. The Ohio chain’s own site is ytr.com.
A third correction: Yours Truly does use the word “vegan” — in one place
An earlier version of this page said the word “vegan” appears nowhere on Yours Truly’s website. That was wrong, and the exception matters.
Yours Truly’s online ordering platform at ytr.appfront.app — the site its own “Order Now” button links to — describes the Burger Bar like this, verbatim:
“The Burger Bar! Get any burger bar style with a vegan burger. For an extra charge, deluxe any item with coleslaw and cottage fries or sweet deluxe with coleslaw and sweet potato fries. These items may be ordered raw or undercooked. Consuming undercooked meats, poultry, seafood and eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.”
That is Yours Truly, in its own words, offering a vegan burger. The earlier version of this page missed it because it searched the pages of ytr.com for the word, and the ordering platform is a separate application on a separate domain.
What it does not do is confirm anything. The same patty is called something different in every other place Yours Truly describes it. On the printed menu and on ytr.com it is the “Veggie Burger.” In the ordering platform’s own item record it is described as a “Garden Burger served any Burger Bar style on a Brioche Bun.” So the restaurant calls one item a veggie burger, a Garden Burger and a vegan burger in three different places, publishes no ingredients for it, and serves it on a brioche bun whose composition it also does not publish.
Where a restaurant contradicts itself, this page publishes the contradiction rather than picking the flattering reading. “Vegan burger” is a menu-writing claim, not an ingredient statement — and it is the only time Yours Truly uses the word at all.
Answer: Yours Truly publishes nothing that lets anyone confirm a vegan dish
We read the full menu, the kids’ menu, the breakfast menu, the drinks menu, the monthly features, the homepage, the story page, both downloadable PDF menus and the online ordering platform on 31 July 2026. Here is what that search turned up:
- “vegan” — one occurrence, the Burger Bar line quoted above, on the ordering platform. Zero occurrences on ytr.com itself; the site’s own search for “vegan” returns “Nothing Found.”
- “vegetarian” — 0 occurrences anywhere, including the ordering platform.
- No nutrition page, no calorie counts, no allergen matrix, no per-item allergen marks of any kind.
- One allergen sentence for the whole restaurant, quoted below.
The only allergen text on ytr.com sits at the foot of the full menu, verbatim:
“The following major food allergens are used as ingredients: Milk, Egg, Fish, Crustacean Shellfish, Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Wheat, Soy, and Sesame. Please make your server aware of any food allergies you may have. Ask your server for our gluten-free selections. Although items are gluten-free, they are not prepared in a gluten-free environment and will come in contact with gluten during preparation.”
That is a kitchen-level declaration. It tells you all nine major allergens are in the building. It tells you nothing about which dish contains which.
How we checked, since the last version got part of this wrong
The previous version of this page rested on searching for words. That is how it missed the “vegan burger” line above, so this time we looked at how the pages are actually built, not just what they read:
- The menu markup. Restaurants that publish per-item dietary marks normally render them as icons with names in the HTML. Across ytr.com’s homepage, full menu, kids’ menu, breakfast menu and drinks page there is not one dietary, allergen, vegan, vegetarian or gluten icon, class or label in the markup. There is nothing to render.
- The ordering platform’s own data. Yours Truly’s ordering app publishes structured records for 224 menu items. Those records carry a name, a description, a price and a serving option — and no allergen field, no dietary field and no vegan or vegetarian tag on any of the 224. The platform’s business-level allergen list is present and empty. The calorie field exists on 216 of them and is blank on every single one.
- The platform supports the filters and Yours Truly has filled none of them in. Its configuration enables gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan diner preferences. No item is tagged with any of the three, so the filters match nothing.
- The PDF menus, read as images. The main menu PDF has no extractable text at all, so we rendered both pages and read them. That is the one place a printed mark would be invisible to any word search.
- The media library. Yours Truly’s site publishes exactly one PDF beyond its menus — a gift-card flyer. The
/menus/directory is openly listed and holds six files: two catering menus, the kids’ menu, an event-space document and the two dine-in menus. No allergen or nutrition document exists.
One thing that search did turn up, and it is worth knowing so you do not misread it. The printed menu does carry a per-item symbol system — but none of it is dietary. Yours Truly’s own legend reads: “* These items may be ordered raw or undercooked…”, “** This product has not been pasteurized…” and “*** Kalamata olives may contain pits.” So the asterisks scattered across the burgers, the steaks and the fresh-squeezed juices are food-safety warnings, not allergen or vegan marks. If you see a symbol next to an item at Yours Truly, it is not telling you anything about dairy or egg.
So: nothing at Yours Truly can be confirmed vegan from a Yours Truly source. Items here are only ever not vegan — when the restaurant’s own description names an animal product — or unverifiable. That is the honest state of the evidence, and the rest of this page is organised around it.
Items Yours Truly’s own descriptions rule out
These were all on the old version of this page as vegan or veganisable. They are not, by the restaurant’s own wording:
- Reuben Burger — “Sauerkraut and Swiss on grilled Jewish rye”, under “The Burger Bar — Fresh 8 oz. Certified Angus Beef”
- Burgerlite Carb Conscious, No Bread! — “With fresh sautéed mushroom and YT house salad or coleslaw”, same beef section. “No bread” is a low-carb feature, not a vegan one
- YT Sliders — “Four mini burgers topped with grilled onion, pickle and melted American on seared fresh baked slider buns”, same beef section
- Starter Sliders — “Two mini burgers topped with grilled onion, pickle and melted American on seared fresh baked slider buns”
- The Envelope — “Fresh pita stuffed with spinach, tomato, cucumber, muenster and choice of dressing”. The muenster is cheese, and Yours Truly designates no dressing as vegan
- Veggie Quesadilla — “Spinach, green pepper, onion, tomato, mushroom and cheese.” Not vegan as served; the tortilla and the grilling fat are additional unknowns
- Greek Salad — “Romaine lettuce with tomato, cucumber, Kalamata olives, feta and our homemade Greek dressing.” Removing the feta still leaves the dressing, whose composition is unpublished
- Napa Spinach Salad — “Fresh baby spinach with grapes, strawberries, walnuts, dried cranberries and crumbled bleu cheese, served with raspberry vinaigrette”
The Caesar Salad — a specific warning
The old version of this page said: “Make sure to ask the waiters to cancel the parmesan, and you will be good to go.” Yours Truly’s description is “Tossed to order with shaved parmesan, croutons and a sprinkle of red peppercorns.”
Removing the parmesan does not address the Caesar dressing, which is conventionally made with anchovies and egg yolk, or the croutons, which are conventionally made with butter. Yours Truly publishes the ingredients of neither. “Good to go” was the wrong instruction and it has been removed.
Items on the menu that we cannot confirm either way
These are on the menu and the restaurant’s own description does not name an animal product. That is not the same as vegan. For each one, here is the specific thing worth asking about:
- Spinach and Onion — “Sautéed with lemon and extra virgin olive oil.” This is the closest thing to a likely vegan side on the menu, because it is the only one where Yours Truly names the cooking fat. Still unconfirmed; there is no ingredient statement.
- Authentic Lebanese Hummus — “A family recipe made with the freshest and most authentic ingredients, topped with extra virgin olive oil and a Kalamata olive, served with pita triangles. Try with cucumber, carrot & celery.” Ask about the pita. (The old version described “chopped tomatoes” on it; there are none — there is a Kalamata olive.)
- YT House Salad — “Garden greens topped with shredded mozzarella, diced tomato and cucumber.” Ask for no mozzarella and no dressing; every dressing’s composition is unpublished.
- Homemade Saffron Rice — no description published. Ask whether it is cooked in butter or in stock.
- Fresh Fruit Fest — no description published. Low risk, still undocumented.
- Asian Veggies — “Teriyaki sautéed fresh veggies finished with a drizzle of cucumber wasabi sauce.” Two things to ask about: teriyaki often contains honey, and wasabi sauces are commonly mayonnaise-based. Yours Truly publishes neither recipe.
- Sweet Potato Fries — “Served with our homemade tango sauce.” Note the item is fries, not the “sweet potatoes” the old page described. Ask about the fryer and the tango sauce.
- Flash Fried Artichoke Hearts — “Made from scratch, served with our own fire ranch dipping sauce.” Three unknowns: the batter, the fryer, and the fire ranch — ranch is conventionally buttermilk- and egg-based.
- YT Homemade Chili — no description, no ingredients. The old page called it “organic and fresh” and put it under vegan starters; Yours Truly makes no organic claim anywhere. It is also sold as “Chili with the Works — Topped with diced onion, melted cheese and sour cream” and as a hot-dog topping, so ask whether it is meat-based before assuming anything.
- Veggie Burger — “Any Burger Bar style on a seared brioche bun.” This is the one item Yours Truly attaches the word “vegan” to, and only on its ordering platform, where the Burger Bar is described as something you can “get any burger bar style with a vegan burger” and the item itself is called a “Garden Burger served any Burger Bar style on a Brioche Bun.” That is a claim, not an ingredient statement: no patty ingredients, no binder, and no composition for the brioche bun are published anywhere, and brioche is conventionally made with egg and butter. The old page said veggie burgers here are “what they claim to be: veggies!” — which was reasoning from the name. Three questions still stand: what binds the patty, what is in the brioche bun, and is it cooked on the same flat-top as the eight-ounce beef. Note also that “any Burger Bar style” means the standard builds come with cheese, bacon or sour cream.
The fryer and the flat-top
Yours Truly publishes no fryer statement at all. Its menu shows chicken tenders, boneless buffalo bites, flash-fried artichoke hearts, cottage fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings and battered cod all being fried. That is the unknown behind every fried item on this page, and the old version never mentioned it. The same goes for the flat-top the beef patties are cooked on.
The dressings
Yours Truly lists ten dressings with no annotation whatsoever: creamy vinaigrette, Gorgonzola, ranch, honey mustard, Greek balsamic vinaigrette, Caesar, thousand island, Italian, oil & vinegar, and fat free raspberry vinaigrette. Several are self-evidently dairy- or egg-based. None is designated vegan, because Yours Truly designates nothing vegan. The old page’s line about “any of the yummy vegan sauces available at Yours Truly” described something that does not exist.
Drinks
On the menu: Premium Juices, Bottomless Fountain Drinks, IBC Root Beer (“It’s Caffeine Free”), Pink Lemonade and Fresh Brewed Iced Tea. The old page also listed sparkling water; the menu item is YT Spring Water, and there is no sparkling water.
What Yours Truly is
This part of the old page was accurate and stays. From ytr.com’s own story page: four siblings — Art, Larry, Darlene and Jeffrey Shibley — opened the first Yours Truly Restaurant in Beachwood, Ohio in 1981. From the original 31-seat restaurant the company has expanded to nine Northeast Ohio locations, and in their 35th year the siblings re-imagined the first Beachwood restaurant. Yours Truly describes itself as “a Northeast Ohio restaurant that strives to showcase and support other local businesses.”
One small correction: the old page called it “a Cleveland-based firm” and “one of the very loved restaurants in the United States.” It is a nine-restaurant regional chain in Northeast Ohio, which is how it describes itself.
A note on the menu’s own dating: the page footer reads “© Copyright 2024” while the site’s sitemap says the page was updated on 28 July 2026. We are treating the menu as current and flagging the mismatch.
Final Words
Yours Truly publishes one sentence about allergens and nothing else. It uses the word “vegan” exactly once, on its ordering platform, to describe a burger it publishes no ingredients for — and it never uses the word “vegetarian” at all. Under those conditions, no honest page can hand you a list of confirmed vegan dishes here — and the previous version of this article did exactly that, with beef burgers on it.
What we can give you is what is on the menu, what the restaurant’s own descriptions rule out, and the precise questions to put to your server: what is in the chili, what the veggie patty is bound with, what is in the brioche bun, what the fryer is shared with, and what is in the dressing. Those are the things Yours Truly does not tell you, and they are the things that decide whether you can eat here.
And if a server tells you the Garden Burger is vegan, that is the restaurant’s own word for it too. It is still worth asking what is in the bun.
