The Restaurant Photo Handbook
How restaurant photos get shot, sized and published. Every figure read off the source, dated, and corrected where the source contradicts itself.
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1Delivery platforms
What each one publishes, and where it contradicts itself.
5- DoorDash
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What are DoorDash's menu photo requirements?
DoorDash publishes four different photo specs, not one. Item photos, headers, carousel photos and logos each have their own size, ratio and file cap. All four, verified against DoorDash's own pages, plus the contradiction they have not resolved.
- DoorDash
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Why was your DoorDash photo rejected?
DoorDash publishes eleven menu photo rejection reasons. Each one, in DoorDash's own wording, what it actually means, and how to fix it. Plus the two things their help centre does not tell you.
- Uber Eats
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What are Uber Eats' menu photo requirements?
Uber Eats accepts item photos between 550 and 10,000 pixels wide at an aspect ratio of 5:4 to 6:4, as JPG, PNG or GIF under 10 MB. Cover images are a separate 2880 x 2304 spec. Read off Uber's own merchant guidelines and dated.
- Uber Eats
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Why was your Uber Eats photo rejected?
Uber Eats rejected your menu photo. Every reason Uber publishes, in their own words, what each one actually means, where to find the reason, how long review takes, and how to replace the photo. Read off Uber's own merchant pages and dated.
- Grubhub
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What are Grubhub's menu photo requirements?
Grubhub publishes two menu photo specifications that contradict each other. The help centre says 200 x 200 square PNG. The developer documentation says 1600 x 1200 at 4:3. Both are Grubhub's. Here is which applies to you.
Choosing and deciding
Where the rules stop and a judgement call starts.
5- All platforms
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Will AI-generated photos get your menu rejected?
DoorDash rejects AI-generated food images and also sells AI photo enhancement. The line is not whether AI touched the photo. It is whether the food itself changed. What each platform allows, and what happens when you cross it.
- Comparison
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Which photo tool actually handles delivery menu photos?
Photoroom, Canva and Claid are general image tools and none of them names DoorDash, Uber Eats or Grubhub on its pricing page. MenuReady and MenuPhotoLab do. A comparison of what each costs and what each actually sizes, with every figure read on 2026-09-03.
- Comparison
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Looking for a MenuPhotoAI alternative?
MenuPhotoAI and MenuPhotoLab both enhance your real dish photos rather than generating fake food. What separates them is price per photo, platform coverage and language support. Every figure re-read off both pricing pages on 2026-09-03.
- DoorDash
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What do you get from DoorDash's free photoshoot?
DoorDash pays a professional photographer to shoot up to 20 of your menu items. What the session covers, what it costs you, who qualifies, and the usage rule that decides whether those photos can go anywhere else. Quoted from DoorDash's own pages and dated.
- Hiring
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Menu photos for an Atlanta restaurant: shoot them or enhance them?
What menu photography actually costs in Atlanta, when hiring a photographer is the right call, and when enhancing the photos you already have is. Written by a photographer who has shot Atlanta restaurants for six years.
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