Four new photos, several places to fit
A second batch of Week 43 food photos needed confirmed names, different crops and checks that the menu details stayed intact.
On 19 October, while we were updating the Week 43 menu, I sent the agent another four food photos. There was a photo of pumpkin-skin angku kuih and three more images to sort out. I also asked it to update the dish pictures in Square with this batch and the new photos I had supplied earlier that evening.
One image needed a question before it needed a place in the menu. It showed a rectangular savoury cake with spring onion, red chilli and fried shallots on top. The agent could not reliably distinguish taro cake from radish cake from the photo alone. It asked me which it was. I replied: yes, Taro Cake. The image could then be attached to the right dish.
Once the names were settled, the job still had several destinations. A website card, a Square item image and a television menu gave the same photo different amounts of room. The saved records kept the original files and the dish mapping together, including my confirmation of Taro Cake, so the versions used in each place could be checked.
The four additions went into the website as Pumpkin Skin Angku Kuih, Braised Pork Knuckle Rice, Lor Bak and Taro Cake. The agent compared the menu before and after the photo update. The prices, portions, minimum quantities, service dates and ordering notes stayed as they were. The three breakfast dishes I had asked to feature earlier also remained the featured choices.
The same originals needed different framing for different places. The website used landscape crops, while Square needed square images. For the pork rice photo on the website, a plain cream margin kept the whole bowl visible instead of cutting its sides off. The work used the supplied food photos, with cropping and plain canvas padding; it did not generate replacement food. The three television-menu pages whose photos changed were also opened and inspected as exported JPEGs, including how the food sat beside the text.
By the end of that update, the four additions were on the live website, and the agent had reopened the eight Square items whose primary photos it updated across the two batches. Those checks established where the new images had landed. They did not tell us whether anyone ordered because of a photo. What had been completed was a specific update: the supplied food pictures fitted their different places, and the menu still carried the same prices, portions and dates.
