Bolt Food Croatia Photos: Platform Status and Menu Photo Guide

What the Bolt Food exit means for your menu photos

Bolt Food has exited Croatia, so any upload steps, size limits or dashboard screenshots you find for Bolt Food do not apply to a Croatian restaurant today. Do not spend time resizing images to a Bolt Food spec you cannot submit anywhere.

Keep the photos themselves. A dish photographed well for one delivery app works on the others, on your own website and on your printed menu. The work you do now is not wasted; it just goes to different destinations.

• No Bolt Food merchant upload in Croatia as of October 2025
• Bolt rides and scooters still operate in Croatia
• Your existing dish photos remain useful for other apps and your own channels

Which apps restaurants in Croatia use now

Glovo and Wolt are the delivery apps listed as operating in Croatia now. Each publishes its own image guidance and each has its own upload screen, so check the requirements inside the partner dashboard before you submit a menu.

Our Wolt Croatia photo guide and Glovo Croatia photo guide cover each platform separately. Read the one for the app you are onboarding with first, then use the master-file approach below so the same shoot serves both.

• Glovo Croatia photo specs: /delivery-photo-specs/glovo/croatia/
• Wolt Croatia photo specs: /delivery-photo-specs/wolt/croatia/
• Confirm current limits on the upload screen of the app you use

One master file that works across apps

Shoot every dish in landscape orientation with the plate fully inside a centered square. That way a square crop for a delivery app and a wider crop for your website both come from the same frame without cutting the food.

Export a large JPEG from the original file, not from a screenshot or a messaging app copy. Large means the long edge is well above what any app displays, so downscaling is done by the platform rather than by you. Keep the original RAW or full-size JPEG archived per dish so you can re-export when an app changes its guidance.

Name files by dish, not by camera number, for example `pasticada-beef-01.jpg`. When you have forty dishes and three platforms, file names are how you find the right image again.

• Landscape frame, dish centered inside a square safe area
• Shoot at eye level or 45 degrees above the plate; avoid steep top-down unless the dish reads clearly flat
• Use soft daylight from one side, no on-camera flash
• Export a large JPEG and keep the original archived
• One file name per dish, consistent across platforms

Croatian menu details that must match the photo

Menus in Croatia are commonly written in Croatian, so the dish name on the app should match what the photo shows in Croatian terms, not a translated or generic label. If the photo shows a whole fish, the listing should not read as fillet; if the plate includes a side, the description should say so.

Under EU Regulation 1169/2011, allergen information for the 14 regulated allergens must be available for food sold without packaging, and for distance selling including delivery apps the mandatory information must be available before the purchase is concluded. A photo never replaces that information. Keep allergens in the listing text and make sure the image does not suggest ingredients the dish does not contain, such as a garnish of nuts or a cream swirl that is not in the recipe.

Photograph the dish as it is actually served, on the plate or in the container the customer receives. A styled version with extra components creates complaints and refunds.

• Use the Croatian dish name that matches the photo
• List all regulated allergens in the text, before checkout
• Do not decorate with ingredients the kitchen does not include
• Show the real portion and the real container

Before you upload to Glovo or Wolt

Run the same check on every image before it goes into a partner dashboard. The goal is a photo that reads clearly at thumbnail size on a phone, in daylight, on a bus.

If you want help with light, background and crop while keeping the dish exactly as it is, FoodPhoto takes a real photo of your own dish and returns a kit of sizes for your website menu, Instagram, Google Business Profile, QR menu and print. Wolt does not accept AI-generated or altered images, so for Wolt you shoot and upload your own real photo; use the kit for your own channels.

• Thumbnail test: shrink the image to phone size and check the dish is still recognizable
• Check color against the real plate under neutral light
• Remove clutter from the background before shooting, not after
• Confirm the file type and size limit on the app's own upload screen
• Keep a folder of approved images per platform