Quality checklist
Menu image quality checklist
A practical checklist for reviewing restaurant menu images before publishing them to websites, delivery apps, ordering pages, and campaigns.
A menu image quality checklist should confirm that each dish image is accurate, clear, sharp, well cropped, channel-ready, and consistent enough to sit beside the rest of the menu.
The five checks that matter most
Most menu image problems fall into five categories: accuracy, visibility, technical quality, crop safety, and set consistency. A checklist should make each category easy to review before an image goes live.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is preventing weak images from hurting customer trust or creating operational cleanup later.
- Accuracy: image matches the real dish.
- Visibility: the food is easy to understand quickly.
- Technical quality: image is not blurry or too low resolution.
- Crop safety: important parts of the dish are not cut off.
- Set consistency: the image works beside nearby menu items.
Use statuses, not vague feedback
A checklist is more useful when it produces a clear decision. Each image should become publish, enhance, replace, or hold. That avoids vague notes like make it better and gives teams a repeatable workflow.
Enhance is the right status when the dish is accurate but the image has recoverable issues. Replace is the right status when the source image is misleading, unclear, or too damaged.