Delivery App & Menu Photography
Delivery App Photos for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub
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Delivery app photos that sell.
Clean, consistent menu photos for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. Better photos help your dishes stand out in a crowded feed.
Delivery app photography
Your whole menu, ready to order.
Fast and consistent. Every item shot with the same lighting and angle, so your menu looks polished and professional.
Sized for every app. Delivered to the specs DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub ask for, ready to upload.
Made for the apps.
Photo specs for every platform.
Every delivery app has its own rules for menu photos. Get them wrong and your photos get rejected, cropped or buried. Here’s what the big three ask for.
● DoorDash
The strictest of the three.
Size 1400 × 800 px minimum
Shape Landscape 16:9 only
File JPG or PNG, under 2 MB
Rules One item per photo, at least 80% in frame. No text, logos, borders or people.
● Uber Eats
Flexible on size, picky about clarity.
Size 320 to 6000 px per side
Shape Landscape, about 5:4
File JPG or PNG, under 10 MB
Rules Dish centered and fully in frame. No text, logos or people.
● Grubhub
A classic 4:3 frame.
Size Large, high-resolution files
Shape Landscape 4:3
File JPG, under 4 MB
Rules Real photos of your own food, one item each. No stock images, logos or text.
One shoot, every app. We shoot every dish wide and deliver it cropped and sized for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, ready to upload.
Specs as of October 2026. The apps update their rules, so we check the latest before every shoot.
Flat rates, unlimited images. Packages start at $495 with unlimited images, delivered in three business days.
Love at first scroll.
On delivery apps, your photo is your first impression. Bright, appetizing images give hungry customers a reason to tap your restaurant first.
Delivery App Photos for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub
On a delivery app the photo is the menu. People scroll past names and prices and order what looks good in a two-inch tile. I shoot full menus for restaurants across Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego and the Inland Empire, and hand back every dish in the crops and sizes the apps ask for.
The same shoot covers restaurant menu photography for your printed menus, menu boards and website. Menu photography and delivery app photos are the same job: every dish lit the same way so the whole menu looks like one restaurant. See restaurant photography for interiors and staff, and pricing for rates.
Ordering-app photos are shot differently from your social photos
This is the part most restaurants miss. A shot that works on a delivery listing is usually simple — clean background, no props, the dish reading instantly at thumbnail size, nothing competing for attention.
A shot that works on Instagram is close to the opposite: props, a surface with character, moodier lighting, shallow depth of field, a hand reaching in. Both are correct. They are just not the same photograph.
So we plan the shot list around where each image is going, and shoot both in the same session rather than making you choose.
What you get
Every item lit the same way. One lighting set-up, one family of angles, one background, so your storefront reads as a single brand instead of a scrapbook.
Four or five angles of every dish — a hero, an overhead, a close-up, a medium vertical and a horizontal — so the same plate covers the app tile, the header banner, your own site and social.
Over a hundred images from a typical four to five hour shoot.
Food that matches what arrives. Real portions out of the real container, prepared so it still looks its best.
Files ready to upload, named by menu item and sized to each platform.
Delivered in three business days.
Why most delivery listings underperform
Most are built from phone photos taken in the middle of service, under kitchen light, at whatever angle was quickest. They then sit directly next to competitors who paid for photography, and at tile size the difference is almost entirely lighting.
A consistent set of images also lets you push a high-margin dish to the top of the listing and have it actually look worth the price.
How a shoot runs
Menu review. We go through the menu and decide what gets shot, what gets a hero treatment and what can share a set-up.
One day on location. About thirty minutes to set up lighting, then five to ten minutes per shot. The camera is tethered to a laptop so you see and approve each frame as we go.
Edit and delivery. Colour, cleanup and platform crops, back with you inside three business days.
Upload. Everything named and sized so you or your manager can drop it straight into the merchant portal.
Where I shoot
Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Corona, San Bernardino and Palm Springs. If your restaurant is somewhere else in Southern California, ask.
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Delivery app photo questions
What restaurants ask before booking a menu shoot for the ordering platforms.
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The same shoot covers all of it, but the individual shots are treated differently. Ordering-app photos want to be simple — clean background, no props, the dish readable at thumbnail size. Website and social photos want props, mood and shallow depth of field.
We shoot both in the same session, so one visit covers the apps, the menu, the site and Instagram.
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Nearly always lighting. Most listings are built from phone photos taken during service under kitchen light, then sit next to competitors who paid for photography. At two inches square, lighting is basically the whole game.
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A typical four to five hour shoot produces over a hundred usable images, and each dish is shot from four or five angles. Most restaurants get the bulk of a menu covered in a half day.
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Yes, and they should. I shoot the real portion out of the real container. Food for a photograph is prepared a little differently from food going out to a customer — I will tell you what to do differently — but what is in the picture is what you sell.
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Usually not. Ordering-app shots are clean and straightforward, and most kitchens can plate for camera with a bit of guidance. A stylist earns their fee on the harder builds — cheese pulls, stacked sandwiches, anything that has to hold under lights — and I bring one in and quote it when a dish needs it.
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Square and wide versions of every dish, high-resolution masters plus web-sized files, named by menu item and sized for the platforms so they can go straight into the merchant portal.
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Flat rates start at $495 with unlimited images, plus hourly options and packages for smaller menus. There are no per-image fees. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.
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Within three business days of the shoot.
Delivery app photography questions
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Flat rates start at $495 and include unlimited images, editing and delivery within three business days. A full menu of thirty to sixty items is normally a single day. No per-image fees and no licensing tiers.
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Each platform has its own crop and minimum resolution, and they change them. I shoot wide enough to crop square, 4:3 and 16:9 from the same frame and deliver a set sized for each platform you are on, named by menu item so your manager can drop them straight into the merchant portal.
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Thirty to sixty for delivery work, because the set-up stays the same and only the dish changes. Items that have to be built to order take longer, so tell me which ones those are.
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Platforms consistently report that listings with good photography convert better than those without, and items with their own photo outsell items in a text-only list. On an app the picture is doing the job the menu description used to do.
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They serve different jobs. App photos are tight, clean and readable at two inches. Menu and website photography can be moodier and more atmospheric. I shoot both in the same session so the styling is consistent without forcing one look to do both jobs.
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Yes. I bring all the lighting and set up in a corner of your kitchen or dining room before service, so the food is photographed the moment it comes off the pass.
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Almost never. Delivery items plate for camera straight out of your kitchen with me directing, which costs you nothing extra. Ice cream, melted cheese pulls and anything that has to hold up for hours under lights benefit from a stylist, and I quote that separately when a dish needs it.
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Three business days for the edited, cropped and named set. That is my standard turnaround, not a rush fee.
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Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Corona, San Bernardino and Palm Springs.
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