Bolt Food Spain Photos: Status and Menu Photo Guide

Which delivery apps Spanish restaurants use now

Restaurant delivery in Spain runs through Glovo, Uber Eats and Just Eat. Each has its own image guidance, and each upload screen is the final authority on the file it will accept. Treat any third-party size table, including the ones on this site, as a starting point and confirm on the screen where you actually press upload.

If you want the app-by-app detail, read our separate guides for Glovo in Spain, Uber Eats in Spain and Just Eat in Spain. They cover the image guidance each platform publishes for this market, so you can compare them side by side before you shoot.

• Glovo: see the Glovo Spain photo spec page for its published image guidance.
• Uber Eats: see the Uber Eats Spain photo spec page.
• Just Eat: see the Just Eat Spain photo spec page.

What Bolt Food publishes, and why it does not help you in Spain

Bolt Food does not publish pixel specifications for menu images. There is no official minimum resolution, aspect ratio or file-size figure to work from, and no verified upload rule set to quote. Any number circulating for Bolt Food images should be treated as unofficial.

That matters twice in Spain. First, there is no Bolt Food merchant dashboard to upload into, so a Bolt Food-specific export has no destination. Second, because the platform publishes no specs, even merchants in markets where Bolt Food does operate have to read the requirements inside the merchant portal rather than rely on a blog table. Do not build a photo workflow around a number you cannot verify on an upload screen.

One master file that survives every app

Rather than shooting separately for each platform, shoot once for a master file and export from it. Compose in landscape, then keep the entire dish inside a centered square that would survive a 1:1 crop. Many delivery feeds show square or near-square thumbnails, and a landscape frame that loses the plate edges when cropped looks careless in a list.

Shoot at the highest resolution your camera or phone allows, in the largest JPEG quality setting, and back up the original before any editing. Export a large JPEG from that original for each platform, sized to whatever its upload screen asks for, rather than upscaling a small file. Keep the dish centered with a small margin of background on all four sides so a crop never clips the rim of the plate.

For the thumbnail itself, shoot from roughly 45 degrees above the table for a natural plate view, or straight down at 90 degrees for flat dishes like pizzas, salads and rice plates. Side-on shots at eye level flatter burgers and stacked sandwiches but read poorly as small thumbnails, so use them for hero banners rather than menu list items. Keep the light soft and from one side so texture shows without a hard shadow across the food.

• Shoot landscape, compose so the dish sits inside a centered square.
• Keep the original file; export per-platform copies from it.
• Use 45 degrees for plated dishes, 90 degrees for flat dishes, eye level only for hero banners.
• Leave a margin around the plate so square crops do not clip it.

Menu names and photos in Spain

Menus in Spain are commonly written in Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. Whatever language or languages your menu uses, the dish name on the listing should match the dish in the photo exactly: same protein, same garnish, same portion. A photo of a plate with a side that the menu does not mention is a complaint waiting to happen, and it is also a labeling problem.

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. It also should not suggest ingredients the dish does not contain, so do not style a dish with a garnish, sauce or side that is not part of what the customer receives.

If your menu exists in more than one of Spain's menu languages, check that the photo is attached to the correct language version of the item. A Catalan name on one line and a Spanish name on another should lead to the same image and the same allergen note.

A pre-upload routine that saves rework

Before uploading to Glovo, Uber Eats or Just Eat, run the same short check on every image. It takes a couple of minutes per dish and prevents the most common rejection and re-shoot reasons: wrong crop, dull light, mismatched dish, and missing or contradictory allergen text.

FoodPhoto can help with your own channels: it takes a real photo of the restaurant's own dish and improves light, background and crop for menus, delivery apps and social, keeping the food as it is, and every photo comes as a kit of sizes. It cannot guarantee approval by any platform, so always confirm the final file on the upload screen of the app you are using.