> If a menu has pictures, I expect the food to look like the picture.
Has food ever looked like the picture, though? I find this position unrealistic outside of an Amazon return excuse.
Has food ever looked like the picture, though? I find this position unrealistic outside of an Amazon return excuse.
Yeah man it's unrealistic for restaurants to take pictures of the food they make and use that for the menu. Totally.
An AI image isn't anything to do with the actual dish. That's too far removed from the reality to be considered fair.
Sign me up, I love it.
AI image of a pancake because the small business owner doesn’t have a Kellog’s budget?
Fuck that guy, I hope his business fails
So defensively we have to assume the worst, but when we actually do that (or god forbid talk to other people about it) online weirdos like yourself start jumping in front of the bullet.
I'll say that again - when a restaurant has pictures of food, those pictures are often from stock, not actual representative shots of the food the restaurant sells.
This especially applies to fast food and tourist eateries. (Upmarket restaurants don't usually have photos at all.)
Just Eat in the UK has a policy of requiring actual dish shots, but that's not the norm.
Just Eat has recently started allowing AI images, but does tag them as AI.
Kellogs need a perfect picture to sell millions of pancakes.
Small business doesn't. They can use a slightly worse picture, or no picture.
This wasn't a problem 2 years ago when the best AI was Midjourney and terrible. It's not a problem today either.
I once ordered from a Waffle House once exactly like this:
"I'll have the Texas Bacon Cheesesteak Omelette, with hashbrowns all the way...and I want it to look like the picture."
And to my disbelief, they don't throw a chair at my head.
Instead, the cook came over and asked about that -- usually, they'd finish cooking the omelette filling with the eggs because it tasted better that way, and he wanted to make sure that I wanted the fillings wrapped up as in the photo (kind of like a burrito) instead.
I saw him holding the menu with one hand to use as a reference when plating it. He presented it with a big smile. And, indeed, it did look exactly like the photo in the menu.
Er, all the time? In the South East of England, I specifically look for menus with pictures of the food on Just Eats because I can get an idea of how good the food is going to be that way. I don't think I've ever received something that didn't look like what was on the menu pictures. Sometimes people make a nice presentation with fancy dishware and so on (Indian restaurants do that a lot in particular), but the food is always the same as what I get when I order, except it's in a foam box or similar.
It's reasonable to be annoyed when the menu board _isn't based on the product at all_ and thus is nowhere close to the real thing.
Yeah. Especially at Asian restaurants. (With predominantly Asian customers.)
If a menu has like clearly painted or drawn images, on the other hand, I weigh them on artistic merit versus anything descriptive.