AIBU to wish cafés and restaurants would stop using AI designed menus?

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Wish cafes, bars and restaurants would ditch the AI generated menus, posters etc. They look samey - can’t differentiate between them as use the same font etc.

Plus the food looks disgusting. I remember seeing on SM a poster for burritos. It looked like bone cancer.

Please could these places go back to pre AI generated shit

😂 at your description of the burrito!
A.I. has its uses but design is not one of them.

It’s not just cafes/restaurants - these generic outputs appear to be everywhere and used for everything…

Oh God those stupid over-colourful fliers with the same grinning cartoon characters are everywhere. Like they are purposefully designed to appeal to fans of Paw Patrol or something. I judge the owners of such organisations as idiots with zero taste whose event/establishment I do not wish to visit.

I refuse to click on any FB post that uses these ugly posters and flyers. Petty,but a teeny protest against AI.
A slightly bigger protest is ditching Google as my default browser and using DuckDuckGo where AI is optional.

They all look the exactly the same so you don’t remember the business because it doesn’t stand out which surely defeats the object.

A local cafe has just used AI for their new Sunday dinner menu, it's got heavy criticism. It's been a pile on by the cafe supporters, but it doesn't fit in with the family/home cooked vibe and their food is excellent, so I agreed with it not being needed.

It is utterly bizarre how they've all come out of nowhere this year. Surely no-one thinks they look good?

If you don't have any design skills just stick a few photos and some simple wording in the free word processor that comes with Google/Apple, save as a PDF and job done. It takes no time at all and gets your message across without making you look like a complete fool.

Agreed! Any AI designed artwork just completely turns me off whatever it’s trying to promote.

I agree. I don't want everything to look like a cartoon, I'm not 5.

Before AI, many small places would simply use stock photos and probably still do. I get takeaway menus through the door from different places all showing exactly the same pizzas, kebabs etc.

Large chains use professionally shot pictures but they are dressed up to look appetising - e.g. shoe polish type stuff on meat to make it look browned, sprayed with glistening gunk to make it look moist and so on.

I don't think AI is the culprit here!

What really annoys me is that you can make things via Canva incredibly easily/quickly and use your own photos etc. There are thousands of templates and lots of it is free to use. There's just no excuse for this, from a time or money or skill perspective.

They haven't come of nowhere, they've all comeout of the same shit AI machine.

I’ve never liked the stock images much either but at least the leaflets looked different. Now they all look exactly the same.

Hate them. Avoid places that use them.

Exactly! Business are losing on their USP - unique selling proposition. What makes them stand out.

As if you are planning on going out for a meal etc and you remember one poster had a good deal but didn’t remember the name as the posters look samey

Totally agree almost every business is using that same AI design poster now

I’m a huge advocate for AI except when it comes to poster and menu design done by those using lazy prompts. Horrendous. It’s no different to a child using their mums best make up for the very first time, same products totally different end result.

Ugh, they are awful. All in horrible brown and sludgy muted colours with uncanny-looking fake kids or runners or, indeed, pizzas.

I agree they look rubbish and it puts me off! If they can’t even be bothered to sort their own menu/poster then what effort will they be putting into what they produce 🤷🏻‍♀️

I loathe going into a restaurant and being asked to scan the QR code for the menu.

We went to a local food hall recently, had three independent food vendors. One was offering locally made pies, but using an AI menu. I love a pie but hate AI, especially when used by people who you would think would know better.

We went for one of the other food vendors!

Said on another thread there's a butchers near mine who uses AI slop as their marketing, I have no interest in buying from them while they do, every advert their AI mince and burgers look like the consistency of fly eggs.

@OnlyUsername that one is hilarious 😂
Yes I hate this style. I hate the ones that look like pencil drawings too and ones that are clearly fake people.
It's just awful to look at.
There's usually too much information that you don't actually need - some of it actually wrong sometimes.
I wish this fashion would just go away.

That I don't mind that if it just comes up as their regular (not AI) menu.
It means you don't have to touch a sticky menu 😂

Many businesses use AI to create posters because they haven’t got the money to invest in a graphic designer and many don’t have the time or the skills to create their own poster using Canva or whatever. Personally, I think good for them for using their initiative and a free option to at least get a bit of marketing out. It might not be to your preference, but unless you are offering to help them then don’t criticise them.