Guests choose a restaurant on Google Maps, in a delivery app or on Instagram long before they read your menu at the table. I photograph your dishes, drinks, dining room and team so the restaurant looks the same everywhere a guest finds you.
Before the doors open: the dishes for the menu and delivery apps, the dining room, the chef and the team, so Google, booking sites and the press have photographs from the first day.
The dishes you want to sell, shot in your dining room in the proportions the layout needs, with files for print, the website and delivery apps.
One planned shoot a month with photographs and vertical video from your calendar, handed over ready to post.
Dishes and cocktails styled on set with your chef, delivered in versions for print, the web, delivery apps and social media.
Learn more 02The dishes your menu needs, usually a selection rather than every item, shot in your dining room, true to the portion and ready for the printer.
Learn more 03Menu design and print, plus an online menu with ordering connected to your point-of-sale system.
Learn moreA monthly shoot with photographs and vertical video, planned from your calendar and handed over ready to post.
Portraits of the chef, the owner and the team for press, your website and Google, shot on the same day as the food.
Interiors at the hour your room looks its best, for Google, booking sites and press.
Learn more 07A restaurant book photographed, laid out and printed, to sell at the host stand or through a publisher.
Learn moreMost restaurants buy photography in pieces: a few plates for the menu, phone pictures for Instagram, and whatever the delivery app accepted on the day the account opened. The result looks like several different restaurants, and a guest who checks the Google listing, the app and the feed in one evening notices it.
I plan one day around all of those places at once. We decide which dishes carry the menu, which frames go to Google and the delivery apps, and what the feed needs for the next month, then shoot each dish in every format those places need. Your kitchen cooks once, and the props and lighting are set up once.
A delivery listing rewards a clean, bright picture of exactly what arrives at the door, while a Google listing needs the room, the bar and the signature dishes. I shoot both as separate sets on the same day, and on request we can upload them to your profiles for you.
A group needs every location to use the same photographs and the same style, otherwise the menus drift apart from one location to the next. I shoot a group as one production, and new dishes are added later in the same style.
If you are opening, Google, the delivery apps, the website and the press all ask for photographs in the same few weeks. I plan the shoot into the weeks before the opening, so on the first day every listing already shows the real food and the real room.
We photograph real food. AI never draws your dishes. In the past year three restaurants came to me after guests spotted AI-generated food photos on their Google Maps listings, left one-star reviews and wrote that they felt deceived. Each of them wanted photographs of their real dishes back on the page.
Most guests come across your restaurant in these four places, and one shoot day can cover all of them if it is planned that way.
The first photographs most guests see sit on your Google listing, and pictures taken by guests in bad light set an expectation you never agreed to.
On Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub the photo does the whole selling job, cropped to the platform's shape on a small screen.
Your feed tells a guest whether the room is somewhere they want to spend an evening, which is a different job from showing a plate.
Inside the restaurant a photograph explains the dish beside its price and moves the guest toward the plates you want to sell.
Hi Alex, I hope you're well. I took the statistics you requested after renovating our menu with your photos. Our bill has grown 24% at Namo and 31% at Gaylord.
About ten by ten feet near a power outlet. I screen it off with tables so the shoot stays out of your team's way.
I send a checklist in advance, and on the morning I check the kitchen and the shopping before I unpack the lights.
The owner or the marketing lead approves each frame on screen while the dish is still on the table, so nothing is left to argue about after retouching.
The dishes are shot before your service starts, and the room and the evening service are scheduled for the hour they look best, without stopping your team.
We sit down with the chef and the owner, look through the day and choose the frames for retouching.
Send the name of the restaurant, the size of the menu and the date you need the photographs. I quote by the shoot day and send a written estimate within 24 hours.