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Menu-grade food photography, from a phone snap

A line cook shoots the dish at service. Pixfino lights and grades it for menus, websites, and POS — no closed kitchen, no food photographer.

Phone snap in. Menu hero out.

Input Sample input image
Pixfino output Sample output image

Service-light to menu-light

The renderer corrects warm tungsten kitchen light back to neutral menu spec without flattening the dish.

Plating preserved

Your line cook's plating choices survive. Only lighting and color shift.

Same look across locations

Multi-location concepts get photo consistency without a corporate-imposed studio shoot.

Who this is for

Independent restaurants

Job

Update menu and website photos without a shoot

Friction

Food photographers cost $300-$2,000/day and require a closed kitchen.

F&B groups

Job

Standardise photo style across all locations

Friction

Each location's GM uploads phone photos at different quality.

Hotel restaurants

Job

Update seasonal menus monthly

Friction

Booking the studio photographer monthly is impractical.

Catering operators

Job

Show portfolio shots without staging the buffet again

Friction

Catering events don't have repeatable photo opportunities.

Ghost kitchens

Job

Photograph each new virtual brand on launch day

Friction

Per-virtual-brand photo shoots blow the launch budget.

How it works

  1. 1

    Snap the dish at service

    Any phone, any kitchen light. Pixfino corrects white-balance, fills shadows, and re-lights for menu spec.

    Replaces: Closing the kitchen for a photographer.

  2. 2

    Pick a style

    Bright clean (delivery menu), dark moody (fine dining), or overhead flatlay (cookbook).

    Replaces: Pre-pro briefing with a stylist.

  3. 3

    Generate

    One render, ~30 seconds. Plate swap is optional (replace the line-shop white plate with a brand-correct one).

    Replaces: A half-day shoot.

  4. 4

    Push to channels

    Drop into Toast/Square POS, your website, delivery aggregators, and Instagram. Same dish, same lighting, every channel.

    Replaces: Per-channel manual reformat.

Pixfino vs traditional production

Traditional studio Stock + retouch Pixfino
Lead time 1-2 weeks Same-day Under 1 minute
Per-dish cost $100-$400 $40-$80 3 credits
Iterations Re-shoot Slow Unlimited
Brand consistency Photographer-dependent Generic look Per-style locked
Scale ceiling 10-20 dishes/day Slow Full menu/hour
Revisions Re-shoot Re-purchase Free re-runs

Questions and answers

Will the photo still look like my dish?
Yes — composition and ingredients are preserved. The renderer corrects light and color, not what's on the plate.
Does this handle motion blur from a phone snap?
Mostly — minor blur is corrected. Heavy blur is best avoided by tapping to focus before the snap.
Can I swap the plate?
Yes. Plate-swap is an optional input that replaces the prep dish with a brand-correct one.
What resolution do I get?
1024px on the longest edge; 2x via the API for print menus.
Will it pass Toast/Square's image specs?
Yes — output is built against current POS image guidelines.
Can my staff do this?
Yes. The flow is designed for line cooks, not photographers — phone in, output out.

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Measured quality

Full QC report →

Menu Hero Shot

oaktree/image-edit · $0.04/image

awaiting benchmark

No food benchmark set exists yet — every figure below is an honest placeholder until the food vertical gets its own measured run.

Render sharpness (BRISQUE)

target threshold pending calibration

PLACEHOLDER · run harness n=0 · date TBD

Perceived quality (CLIP-IQA)

target threshold pending calibration

PLACEHOLDER · run harness n=0 · date TBD

Auto-QC first-pass rate

target ≥ 85% first pass

PLACEHOLDER · run harness n=0 · date TBD

Phone snap in, menu-grade photo out. No closed kitchen.

Free credits on signup. No card required.

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