CakePHP Questions

I am trying to configure CakePHP to act as a REST API for an app i'm writing.

I have 3 tables:

dishes {
 id,
 name,
 description
}

users {
 id,
 name,
 email
}

dishes_users {
 id,
 user_id,
 dish_id
}

I would like it so that when someone visits...