How do you make a certain selection from a user with the menu command display through switch,case and if,elseit,else statements?

Hello! I am practicing material for my class and decided to make a restaraunt program where you are welcomed to the restaraunt, asked which drink you want, and whichever drink you select the program should display to the user 'drink ' coming right up!' but it does not do this. I am tyrying to do this both for user drink and food selection. I am also asking the user if they would like to continue/have dessert, and am using both switch case and if,elseif,else statements. It just needs some tidying up that I cannot figure out. Thank you in advance for the help!

clc
clear
close all

disp('Hello, welcome to Julize''s Restaraunt! Please take a seat.')
pause
drinks=menu('Please select which drink you would like to get started!','Lemonade','Coke','Water','Tea','Sprite');
   switch drinks
       case 'Lemonade'
           disp([drinks ' coming right up!'])
           drinks=1;
       case 'Coke'
           disp([drinks ' coming right up!'])
           drinks=2;
       case 'Water'
           disp([drinks ' coming right up!'])
           drinks=3;
       case 'Tea'
           disp([drinks ' coming right up!'])
           drinks=4;
       case 'Sprite'
           disp([drinks ' coming right up!'])
           drinks=5;
           
   end
          
   pause
   food=menu('What would you like to eat today?','Steak & Fries','Fish & Rice','Hamburger & Fries','Shrimp & Rice');
    switch food
        case 'Steak & Fries'
            disp([food ' coming right up!'])
            food=1;
        case 'Fish & Rice'
            disp([food ' coming right up!'])
            food=2;
        case 'Hamburger & Fries'
            disp([food ' coming right up!'])
            food=3;
        case 'Shrimp & Rice'
            disp([food ' coming right up!'])
            food=4;
    end
    pause
    answer=questdlg('Would you like dessert tonight?','Hello','Yes please','No thank you','We are good for the night','No thank you');
    if answer==1
        desserts=menu('What dessert can I interest you in?','Chocolate Cake & Ice Cream','Skillet Cookie & Ice Cream','Fried Banana & Ice Cream');
           switch desserts 
               case 'Chocalate Cake & Ice Cream'
                   disp([desserts ' coming right up!'])
                   desserts=1;
               case 'Skillet Cookies & Ice Cream'
                   disp([desserts ' coming right up!'])
                   desserts=2;
               case 'Fried Banana & Ice Cream'
                   disp([desserts ' coming right up!'])
                   desserts=3;
           end
    elseif answer==2
        disp('I''ll bring you your check.')
        dessert=0;
    else answer=3
        disp('I''ll bring you your check.')
        dessert=0;
        
        
    end
    pause
    disp('Thank you for coming to eat at Julize''s Restaraunt!. We will see you next time!')

Answer 1

[Rik]

If you don't open any figures, don't use close all. Also don't use clear all, use clear or clearvars instead.

If you read the documentation of the menu function you will notice it doesn't return a string, but an index.

food_list={'Steak & Fries','Fish & Rice','Hamburger & Fries','Shrimp & Rice'};
food=menu('What would you like to eat today?',food_list);
disp([food_list{food} ' coming right up!'])

Also, you don't alert the user that they should press a key in the command window.

Instead of disp you could also consider fprintf:

fprintf('%s coming right up!\n',food_list{food})

[Julia Hoppe]

Thank you so much for the input! This helps a lot!