Specify ON DELETE NO ACTION in ASP.NET MVC 4 C# Code First

You can either disable it for your entire context by removing the cascade delete convention in the OnModelCreating method:

  protected override void OnModelCreating( DbModelBuilder modelBuilder )
  {
     modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<OneToManyCascadeDeleteConvention>();
  }

or, you can do it per relationship using a fluent mapping (also in the OnModelCreating):

EDIT: you would put it in your menu entities

public class MenuEntities : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Status> Statuses { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Restaurant> Restaurants { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Menu> Menus { get; set; }

      protected override void OnModelCreating( DbModelBuilder modelBuilder )
      {

         modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<OneToManyCascadeDeleteConvention>();

     modelBuilder.Entity<Menu>()
        .HasRequired( f => f.Status )
        .WithRequiredDependent()
        .WillCascadeOnDelete( false );

     modelBuilder.Entity<Restaurant>()
        .HasRequired( f => f.Status )
        .WithRequiredDependent()
        .WillCascadeOnDelete( false );

      }

}

Just make the FK property nullable, then the cascade delete will be gone.

public int? StatusId { get; set; }