A lot of people are going to say “hey, real food photography is complicated and costly”. I’m a photographer, yeah, I believe it can be tricky to get a nice proper and appetising photo of a dish that is so good that you can actually use it in a high profile print ad.

But for web based menus, where most people just see a thumbnail size photo anyway, it really doesn’t take all that much to take an adequate photo. The photos shown here could have easily been taken on crap smartphones - you know, if they had done them in real life.

Also, you could just use a stock photo. Maybe it doesn’t match the real product, but neither does the AI image.