5,000 Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus
A History of Menus is a Menu of History
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
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Restaurants, Please Stop Using AI-Generated Photos of Your Food
AI-generated food photos and menus are creeping into restaurants, but the uncanny images, mangled descriptions, and synthetic polish come at a cost: diners’ trust. When it comes to selling food, even an imperfect photo can be far more appetizing when it’s unmistakably real.
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Ugly AI Food Photos Are Only the Beginning
Restaurant menus with AI-generated food images are going viral for their off-putting aesthetic. But AI’s impact on modern menus runs even deeper.
Restaurants face backlash over AI-generated food photos
AI is turning restaurant menus into nightmare fuel.
Cooked - Save recipes from anywhere
Are you tired of scattered recipes from the internet? Cooked transforms those long cluttered pages into a short version which you can save and read while cooking. Even works with videos!
recipe.exchange - Share Your Recipes
A simple, clutter-free way to discover and share your favorite recipes.
Uber Eats Will Use AI To Make Restaurant Food Photos Look Better Than They Are - BGR
Uber Eats is introducing a few new AI features for restaurants, including automated menu descriptions and enhancing low-quality photos.
Cheeseburger Database
A community-built record of the world's cheeseburgers. Posted to Bluesky, indexed here. No endless scrolling. No ads.
RecipeRadar - search recipes by ingredients
RecipeRadar - search recipes by ingredients
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?
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Someone recently announced a “restaurant listings/menus on atproto so they can own their own data”, and as someone who used to do engineering for OpenTable, let me tell you that project is not solving a problem that restaurants actually have. Owning your own data is an anti-value prop for many orgs.
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hard pill to swallow for atproto developers/creators: 99% of potential users either do not care about, value, understand, or want to “own their own data” i see so many apps/projects lead with this “value prop”, but it’s not an important or meaningful consideration for most people
Publish your restaurant's menu once, as structured data you own. Plates gives it a beautiful page, and the open network carries it everywhere else.
