Customer case study
1,940+ AI food photos for one recipe platform
menucrafters.com is a recipe + meal-planning platform with thousands of dishes from dozens of cuisines. Stock-photo licensing was bleeding their budget; commissioned shoots couldn't keep pace with menu velocity. They replaced the whole pipeline with the FoodPhoto.ai API. As of today: 1,940+ generated images, served and indexed.
1,940+
Dish images generated
$0
Stock-photo licensing fees, going forward
API-driven
Every image fetched programmatically
The full album — every image we generated for menucrafters
Every dish hero on this page was produced through the FoodPhoto.ai API and is currently serving on the live menucrafters.com platform. Filter by cuisine, scroll to load more, hover for the dish title.
15 minute garlic shrimp
Acai bowl brasileiro
Acai smoothie bowl
Ackee and saltfish
Adana kebab
Aegean herb crusted lamb chops with sun dried tomato couscous moaavi4i
Aegean sun drenched stuffed chicken with feta and sun dried tomatoes moaaxaf3
Aegean sunset lemon herb chicken mo60i2de
Agedashi tofu
Agua fresca de sandia
Air fryer brussels sprouts
Air fryer cauliflower bites
Air fryer chicken tenders
Air fryer chicken wings
Air fryer coconut shrimp
Air fryer crispy tofu
Air fryer mozzarella sticks
Air fryer pork chops
Air fryer salmon fillet
Air fryer sweet potato fries
Aj de gallina creamy peruvian chicken stew mn4ovdti
Peruvian
Aj de gallina creamy peruvian chicken stew mn4ovdoh
Peruvian
Aji de gallina
Ajiaco bogotano
Albondigas in tomato sauce
Alfajores argentinos mnse2o
Almond flour breakfast cookies
Almond flour brownies
Almonds and dark chocolate
Aloo gobi
Aloo paratha
Aloo tikki
Ameijoas a bulhao pato
Andean lamb stew with purple corn reduction mo6q84jj
Anticuchos de corazn peruvian beef heart skewers mo0asoyf
Peruvian
Anticuchos de corazon
Apple slices with peanut butter
Arepas con queso
Arroz atollado
Arroz con pollo
Arroz de marisco
Asado argentino
Asian chicken lettuce cups
Avocado-toast-egg
Avocado-toast-egg
Avocado-toast
Avocado-toast
Avocado-toast
Avocado banana smoothie
Avocado deviled eggs
Avocado toast supreme
Avocado toast with poached eggs
Ayib ethiopian cheese
Baba ganoush
Bacalhau a bras
Bahian seafood stew moqueca baiana mnzl2m9u
Bahian shrimp bob mnw0irlu
Bahian shrimp moqueca with coconut milk mo6q9v45
Baiao de dois
Baingan bharta
Or just keep scrolling — more load automatically.
The pre-AI math didn't work
A recipe platform isn't a 30-dish menu — it's a long-tail catalog. menucrafters launched with several hundred dishes and a roadmap to thousands. Each dish needs a hero image that reads cleanly at 200 px (mobile recipe card), looks appetizing on social re-shares, and respects the cuisine's visual language.
Three pre-AI options, all bad: stock photography (generic, repeated across competitor sites, recurring license fees, missing for niche dishes like Vietnamese-Korean curry turkey),commissioned shoots ($150–$400 per hero image, 2–4 week turnaround, can't scale to 1,940+ dishes without a six-figure budget), anduser-generated photos (inconsistent, messy lighting, broken brand feel).
FoodPhoto.ai changed the equation. The team writes a dish prompt in their CMS; our API returns a hero image in 6–12 seconds. Per-image cost: pennies on the cuisine-aware Growth plan, no recurring license, no shoot day.
How they built it on our API
menucrafters integrated FoodPhoto.ai at the recipe-creation step. When an editor publishes a new dish, our API is called, the image is generated, post-processed (CDN upload, WebP conversion, srcset variants), and attached to the recipe record.
# Recipe-publish hook (Python excerpt)
from foodphoto import FoodPhotoClient
client = FoodPhotoClient(api_key=os.getenv("FOODPHOTO_API_KEY"))
def on_recipe_published(recipe):
image = client.generate(
dish_name=recipe.title,
cuisine=recipe.cuisine_tag,
style="studio_pro",
aspect_ratio="1:1",
)
recipe.hero_image_url = upload_to_cdn(image.url)
recipe.save()That's it. No shoot bookings, no stock-image hunting. Each new recipe lands with a unique hero image as part of the publish flow.
We offer the same API to every business
Not just menucrafters. Recipe platforms, restaurant POS vendors, Shopify food-vertical apps, ghost-kitchen aggregators — anyone serving food imagery at scale.
Numbers (as of 2026-04-24)
Image volume
1,940+ dishes covered
Spanning 30+ cuisines, breakfast through late-night.
Coverage
100% of catalog
No remaining stock-photo holdouts. Every recipe ships with a unique hero.
Time-to-image
6–12 seconds
From recipe-publish click to CDN-served hero image.
Editorial control
Cuisine-aware
Tagged generation respects regional staging — no fusion-tofu in a Punjabi recipe.
Build your own image library on FoodPhoto.ai
Same API. Same per-credit pricing. Your dishes, your branding, your CDN.