At a small restaurant in Tennessee, USA.
I don't like that they asked an LLM to graphic design the entire menu, but why in the name of robot jesus did they look at the result and say "great. Love it. Print 100 copies."
The food pictures made me physically ill. They're really upsetting! I told the Waitress, who agreed that the pics were awful, and the manager/owner(?) who didn't seem to care.
There are LLM inconsistencies all over, too, like icons changing from page to page.
I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I swear, a swathe of the older population seems to have "diffusion blindness." They can glance at images like this and think its acceptable for their business, like something about their perception just softens the uncanny valley.
Hence, Facebook, in its current state.
The power move was to tell the manager, and then leave afterwards without ordering anything.
Let them see the direct consequences of their actions, money walking out the door.
THAT TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE HUMAN FOOD WHICH I SHALL CONSUME WITH MY…FOOD PORT.
That shit doesn't even look like food.
This is some sloppy slop.
Anyone that cares this little about how their food is represented before ordering, doesn't care about the food or customer. It saved the owner $50 one time, and that was worth it.
Sorry, Riverstone Restaurant, but fuck off with this.
How hard is it to take a picture of the food after it's been prepared??? God damn...
Whats wrong honey? You've barely touched your needle skillet.
It's really not hard to do normally. Almost everybody has a smart phone with a reasonably good camera on it. Take a clean table, turn on all the lights, make each dish with a little extra care so it looks nice, and take a picture of it. You don't even have to pay anybody.
Some look like plastic, some look like dogfood, and the second image is wigging out my trypophobia 🤮
Hi there. Yeah, I'll have the glistening yellow blorbs on whiteflats, fried 𝔾𝔼𝕆𝕄𝔼𝕋ℝ𝕐, waves o' bacon aaaaand a slice of geographic meat. Do you do ōᴹᴹēᴸᴸēᵀᵀē with 🅀🅄🄱🄴🄼🄴🄰🅃? Cool, one of those too.
I've seen these AI food menus all over the place here in Vancouver. It sucks.
Off topic I guess, but I was surprised that nobody is talking about the asterix: Eating undercooked food might make you sick. Like, yeah, that's your job to avoid? I'm assuming this is about runny egg yolks but still, is this considered normal in the US?
Ok, I'm not a fan of generative content anyway, but sometimes it's at least saving effort. I'm confused how a restaurant, who presumably makes and serves these meals, couldn't just take pictures of the meals instead of doing this? Surely that'd be easier, and you'd have an outcome that actually represents your product. This is just insane, and shows a total disregard for what they're making. I'd love (hate) to see what their refrigerator and kitchen look like if they put so little care into the menu that's facing the customer.
Those pictures make me feel like some decent psychedelics are about to kick in.
I'm in Kenya at the moment and it seems nearly all restaurant menus are made with AI. It's awful and I keep asking if the food is real as the photos aren't.
I glanced at it and though it was bad. Then I zoomed in and it’s so much worse!
and the manager/owner(?) who didn’t seem to care.
The owner. That's the one who did it I bet anything. This is typical owner-type psychopathy. A manager would want customers at least. An owner thinks the money spawns in their bank account because they're "good at runnin buisness."
And not a single one of these pieces of shit ever admits to generating it. Its always "Oh uh is it AI though? Looks pretty real. How can you tell it's AI? I'll take your for it but I don't see what the big deal is. It's the future though so we might as well get used to it."
Come on "AI artists" and "prompt engineers". Why don't you take credit for your "legitimate" work?
Forget the visuals for a second and tell me how $17 for an omelette is anywhere near okay.
No pictures at all would be vastly preferable. I'd've walked out.
I figued it was fake, but ... they have a toned down version here https://www.riverstonefamilyrestaurant.com/menu
That's when you let them know you're walking out and why.
LMFAO It's cheaper to order your meal as sides. The "Riverstone" comes out to $9.48
So don't fucking eat there.
The food looks like the kind of thing that would be used as a lure by a massive carnivorous slime mold shaped like a mom and pop restaurant.
Weird things do grow in the hollers of Appalachia.
They probably thought taking photos of their dishes would have been complicated or expensive. Funny thing, if they were going for this overall aesthetic, then taking the photos with a cellphone (no matter how crap and outdated) and slapping Instagram filters (or equivalents) on them would have worked beautifully. Anything is better than this.
WTF is "city ham"? Is that like "long pig"?
I could get generating the layout, but the whole point of the pictures is that I want to see what your version of this dish looks like
Feels like a truth in advertising moment, but with what enforcement? As others have said, voting with your dollars is the best leverage you have.
That shit looks so disgusting that it would ruin my appetite
Sunny side up eggs topped with spiders and a side of cheese nails.
What, do you not flower cookie cutter your eggs and put stitch patterns on your pancakes? That's how you know it's made with love.
Yummy, I love eating nauseatingly detailed geometrical patterns 😋
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