Bolt Food Photo Size in Poland: Image, Menu & Upload Specs

What Bolt Food actually publishes in Poland

Bolt Food's merchant-facing materials for Poland do not list a required pixel size, aspect ratio, maximum file size or accepted file format for menu photos. There is no official spec sheet to quote, and the platform does not publish pixel specs. Treat any blog post or agency page that states a fixed resolution for Bolt Food Poland as unverified.

The practical consequence is that you should not design a photo around a number. Instead, open the upload screen in your Bolt Food merchant dashboard and read the guidance shown there, because that is the only place Bolt Food states its current requirement. If the screen accepts a file without complaint, the file meets the technical rule; if it rejects one, the error message tells you what to change.

• Check the upload screen in the merchant dashboard before every batch of new photos
• Keep a note of the file size and dimensions that uploaded successfully, and reuse that recipe
• Do not trust third-party spec tables for Bolt Food Poland unless they link to Bolt Food itself

Build one master file that survives any crop

Shoot every dish in landscape orientation at the highest resolution your camera or phone allows, and compose so the entire plate sits inside a centered square. That way a square crop, a 4:3 crop or a wide hero banner all keep the food intact. If the plate touches the left or right edge in landscape, a square crop will cut it.

Photograph straight down at 90 degrees for flat dishes like pierogi or a plate of bigos, and at roughly 45 degrees for tall items like a burger or a slice of sernik so you keep the layers visible. Fill about 70 to 80 percent of the frame with the food, leave even margins on all four sides, and keep the background simple: a plain board, a clean tablecloth or a neutral counter.

Export the master as a large JPEG at the best quality setting. JPEG is the safest format for delivery dashboards because it is universally accepted and keeps file size manageable; a 3000 pixel wide JPEG at high quality usually lands well under typical upload limits. Keep the untouched original file separate from the export so you can re-crop later without going back to the kitchen.

• Landscape capture, whole dish inside a centered square
• 90 degrees for flat plates, about 45 degrees for tall dishes
• 70 to 80 percent food-to-frame ratio with even margins
• Export a large high-quality JPEG and archive the original

Match the photo to the Polish menu description

Bolt Food menus in Poland are read in Polish, so the dish name on the listing and the dish in the photo have to agree. If your listing says "pierogi ruskie," the photo should show filled dumplings, not a plate of kopytka. Mismatches between the Polish description and the image are the fastest way to get a complaint or a refund request.

Write or confirm the Polish name first, then shoot the dish to that name. If a dish has variants, such as a schabowy with or without bone, or a żurek served in bread versus a bowl, photograph the exact version you sell and note the variant in the description. Keep lighting and background consistent across the menu so the Polish-language list reads as one coherent offer rather than a set of unrelated snapshots.

Polish dishes that are hard to photograph, and how to handle them

Several dishes common on Polish menus are genuinely difficult in front of a camera, and each needs a different fix.

Pierogi look like pale half-moons on a white plate. Use a darker plate or a wooden board for contrast, add a small amount of browned butter or fried onion for color, and shoot from about 45 degrees so the folds read.

Żurek and other soups are monochrome and sink into the bowl. Shoot from slightly above at roughly 60 degrees, place the egg and sausage deliberately on the surface, and use side light so the surface texture is visible rather than a flat pool.

Bigos is a brown mass with no natural edges. Serve it in a smaller bowl so it mounds above the rim, add a visible piece of sausage or a slice of bread alongside, and use a low side angle to show depth.

Kotlet schabowy and other breaded cutlets can look dry and flat. Photograph them freshly cut or with a visible crumb structure, pair with a distinct side such as potatoes with dill, and avoid overhead light that flattens the crust.

Sernik, makowiec and pączki are brown-on-brown. Use a light background, a dusting of sugar or a fruit garnish for color, and a close 45-degree angle so the layers or filling show.

• Choose the plate and background per dish, not one setup for the whole menu
• Add a legitimate garnish that the dish actually includes
• Use side light for soups and stews, softer front light for pastries

Allergen information and photo honesty under EU rules

Under EU Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, 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. In practice for a Polish restaurant on Bolt Food, that means the allergen details belong in your menu listing text, visible to the customer before they order.

A photo never replaces that information. It also should not suggest ingredients the dish does not contain: do not add a walnut garnish to a dish with no nuts, or a cream swirl to a dairy-free soup, because a customer with an allergy may read the photo as a statement about the contents. Photograph the dish as it is served, and put the allergen data where the regulation requires it.

Pre-upload check before your Bolt Food photos go live

Run the same check on every file before it enters the dashboard. Confirm the photo shows the exact dish sold under the Polish name, that the whole plate survives a square crop, that the file is a large high-quality JPEG, and that the color looks like the food does in real life rather than oversaturated. Then upload one test image, check how it appears in the app on a phone, and adjust the crop or brightness if the dish reads poorly at thumbnail size.

If you would rather not rebuild every file by hand, FoodPhoto takes a real photo of your own dish, improves the light, background and crop for menus, delivery apps and social while keeping the food as it is, and returns each photo as a kit of sizes. It cannot guarantee approval by Bolt Food, so always confirm the final file against the upload screen.