[1] In 2019, Logo TV's Michael Musto included Rita Menu in a list of the 250 best drag names.
[2] Rita Menu competed on season 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under,[3] placing seventh overall.
She is among the only contestants in the Drag Race franchise to eliminate two competitors in a single episode;[4] Rita Menu eliminated Ivory Glaze and Ivanna Drink in lip-syncs to "Murder on the Dancefloor" (2001) by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and "Holding Out for a Hero" by Adam Lambert, respectively.
[5][6] On the fourth episode, Rita Menu impersonated Cardi B for the Snatch Game challenge.
[7] Her performance landed her in the bottom two, and she lost a lip-sync against Flor to "Secrets" by Kylie Minogue.