Improves, never changes
Light, background and framing. Never the dish, the portion or the ingredients: a photo that promises more than reaches the table is misleading advertising.
What it is
From your phone to your menu, with studio lighting.
The Food Please AI Photos start from your real photo. Shoot it from above in window light, or upload one you already have. AI fixes what spoils a phone snap: yellow lighting, a crumpled napkin in the background, wonky framing.
What it won't do is change your dish. Not the portion, not the ingredients, not how it's cooked. Guests should get exactly what they saw.
And if a dish doesn't have a photo yet, you can create an illustrative image from its name and description. On your digital menu it always carries the label “Illustrative image”.
How it works
Take the photo. Choose. Onto the menu.
Take the photo or upload it
From the dish page in your panel: take the photo on your phone or upload one you already have. No photo? Ask for an illustrative one.
Choose a style
Studio, wood, marble, terrace, dark or “Your venue”, which recreates the light of your place from up to 3 of its photos.
Compare and decide
See the before and after. Use the new one, ask for another version (up to 3 per photo, at no extra cost) or keep yours. Your original is always saved.
Styles
Six styles. Your whole menu in the same light.
Studio
Clean background and soft light. The menu classic.
Wood
A warm wooden table, tavern or brunch style.
Marble
White and elegant, for cafés and bakeries.
Terrace
Daylight and outdoors, for drinks and sharing plates.
Dark
Black background and side light, for dinner and cocktails.
Your venue
Learns from up to 3 photos of your place so the whole menu has your light.
Background samples made with CSS on a stock photo. Results depend on your photo and the style you choose.
No tricks
Photos that don't mislead.
Illustrations, clearly labelled
If the image comes from the dish name rather than your own photo, the menu marks it as “Illustrative image”. Always.
You decide
No photo goes on your menu unless you choose it. And your original photo is always kept.
The images are created by a Google model (Gemini), which adds SynthID: an invisible watermark that identifies them as AI-generated.
Comparison
Photographer or AI Photos, row by row.
| Photographer | AI Photos | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Whatever they quote for the shoot | 15 credits per photo: €0.30 with the 500 pack |
| When | Booking, shoot and a few days of editing | Whenever you like, from your panel |
| A new dish | Another shoot, or wait for the next one | Its photo the same day you add it |
| Your dish | The real one, professionally styled | The real one: AI improves the light and background, not the dish |
| Best for | Your website, social media, a poster, a campaign | Your mobile menu, dish by dish |
When is a photographer worth it? For your website, social media or a campaign, nothing beats a good photographer. To give every dish on your menu a decent photo, and redo it whenever something changes, AI works out far cheaper.
Pricing
15 credits per photo. No subscription.
Each AI photo uses 15 credits and lets you ask for up to 3 versions at no extra cost. With the 5,000 pack, that's €0.21 a photo; with the 500 pack, €0.30. Credits never expire: do your menu today and new dishes whenever they arrive.
Credit packs
- 5,000credits€69.90+ VAT1.4 cents per credit · 333 AI photos
- 1,500credits€24.90+ VAT1.7 cents per credit · 100 AI photos
- 500credits€9.90+ VAT2 cents per credit · 33 AI photos
What uses credits
- Each AI Waiter reply after the 300 included each month
- 1 credit
- AI photo, with up to 3 versions of the same photo
- 15 credits
You only pay when the photo works: if it fails, the 15 credits go straight back to your balance.
- Credits never expire.
- Every venue gets 100 welcome credits, once: that's 6 AI photos.
- You buy them in your panel, as a one-off card payment. Prices exclude VAT.
No surprises
What we won't charge you for.
- Set-up
- €0
- Lock-in
- None
- Kitchen screen
- Included
- Free trial, no card
- 14 days
Some systems charge hundreds of euros to get set up. We'd rather you tried us.
FAQ
Good to know about AI Photos
No. It improves the light, background and framing of your photo. It doesn't change the dish, the portion or the ingredients: what guests see is what they get.
You can create an illustrative image from the dish name and description. On the menu it always carries the label “Illustrative image”, so nobody mistakes it for a real photo.
15 credits, with up to 3 versions of the same photo at no extra cost. With the 500-credit pack (€9.90 + VAT) that's €0.30 a photo. All packs are on our Pricing page.
Keep your own photo. The 15 credits are used when the photo is created, not when you accept it; if creation fails, you aren't charged.
No. Buy a pack, do your menu and keep the rest for new dishes. Every venue also gets 100 welcome credits, once: 6 photos.
Upload up to 3 photos of your bar or dining room and the AI uses their light and background colours. That way your whole menu looks as if it was shot on the same day, at your place.
No. AI Photos has no monthly fee: you pay in credits only for the photos you make. It comes with your The Food Please menu, from each dish's page.