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Deliveroo photo requirements
Last checked against the platform’s documentation: September 2026
The short answer
- Size
- Retail partners: minimum 1,200×800px at 3:2 — restaurants upload through Menu Manager and have a different spec
- Background
- Clean background behind the dish
- Shape
- Deliveroo crops item images to a 1:1 square for display — it does not say from which part of the photo
- Not allowed
- No hands, faces, text or watermarks, and no raw ingredients placed around the dish
What Deliveroo requires
Everything in this section is published by Deliveroo. Each line is marked as a rule or as advice, because the two are not the same thing when you are deciding what to do.
Size and shape
Deliveroo crops item images to a 1:1 square for display — it does not say from which part of the photoRequired
“For item images, always make sure that the entire dish is in shot with sufficient space, as the platform will crop the images to a 1:1 ratio.”
— Deliveroo’s own wording Retail partners: minimum 1,200×800px at 3:2 — restaurants upload through Menu Manager and have a different specRequired
“Aspect ratio: 3:2 / Minimum size: 1200 x 800 pixels”
— Deliveroo’s own wording Restaurants: menu item images at least 1,200×675px, landscape, JPEG, up to 8MB — Deliveroo then crops to a square for displayRequired
“Menu item image: at least 1200 x 675 pixels”
— Deliveroo’s own wording Menu API integrations: 1,920×1,080px at 16:9, JPEG or PNG — a different door from the Menu Manager most restaurants upload throughRequired
“Accepted formats: `JPEG`, `PNG`. `1920x1080` pixels `16:9` aspect ratio.”
— Deliveroo’s own wording Menu photos must be LANDSCAPE — Deliveroo states it as a requirement to meet before uploadingRequired
“Before uploading, make sure your image meets the following requirements”
— Deliveroo’s own wording Hero image ≥1,920×1,080px (works for 16:9 and 3:2)Required
“at least 1920 x 1080 pixels”
— Deliveroo’s own wording
Background
Clean background behind the dishRequired
What the photo may and may not show
No hands, faces, text or watermarks, and no raw ingredients placed around the dishRequired
“Please do not send in images with any hands, faces, text, watermarks or raw ingredients placed around the dishes.”
— Deliveroo’s own wording One dish per photo, centred in the frameRequired
The photo must accurately represent the dish you serveRequired
Framing and lighting
Keep the entire dish in shot with sufficient space around it — Deliveroo crops item images to 1:1Required
“For item images, always make sure that the entire dish is in shot with sufficient space, as the platform will crop the images to a 1:1 ratio.”
— Deliveroo’s own wording
The file
Menu Manager accepts files up to 8MBRequired
“Up to 8MB”
— Deliveroo’s own wording Formats: JPG, PNGRequired
Uploading and review
Deliveroo runs an automated quality check and may offer you an enhanced version of your photo to accept or replaceRequired
“Where available, image enhancement may help improve some eligible issues. You can review the enhanced version and choose whether to accept it or replace the image”
— Deliveroo’s own wording
These rules are what our Deliveroo packs are built from.See what you get
These are the rules. We build to them.
Upload one photo and get back a set sized, framed and backgrounded to exactly what is on this page. No studio, no measuring, no rejected listing.
Ready-made Deliveroo packs, built from these rules:
- Enhanced1 image
- Three Styles3 images