Cheeseburger photography with height, drip and juice
Shoot your burger on a phone, get back a stacked, glossy, toasted-bun hero — built from the real burger.
A cheeseburger has to look tall, juicy and warm in a single frame, and a phone fights you on all three. Buns slump, the patty edge goes grey, cheese stops dripping and sets matte, and the whole stack reads short and tired under flat light. The classic fixes — skewers, blowtorched cheese, propped lettuce — are stylist tricks that take time and a clean studio. PlateRefresh works differently. You photograph the burger you actually built, and the model relights it so the toasted bun glows, the cheese regains its glossy melt, the patty looks freshly griddled and the stack reads as tall and stacked as it really is, without adding a single ingredient.
Sell the stack, not a flat disc
Burgers win on perceived height. Shot slightly low with the right light, the layers separate and the build looks generous; shot flat, the same burger collapses into a pale puck. PlateRefresh relights for contrast and depth so the bun, cheese, patty and garnish read as distinct stacked layers, working from the burger you assembled rather than rebuilding it taller.
Cheese drip and a toasted bun glow
The two cues people crave are a glossy cheese drape over the patty edge and a bun with warm, toasted highlights. Both die the instant a burger cools. The relight brings the sheen back to the cheese you melted and the golden tone back to your toasted bun, so the shot looks just-served. We never paint extra cheese pulls or sesame onto the bread.
Tuned for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Bolt Food
On DoorDash, Uber Eats and Bolt Food the burger thumbnail is doing the selling, and an honest, appetising one outperforms a dull or oversold one. Since PlateRefresh only relights your real burger, the photo stays true to the box that arrives. Uber Eats has reported photos on every item can lift monthly sales by up to 88%, so the hero burger pays back fast.
Phone in, menu shot out.
Snap it
Take a phone photo of the real dish — straight off the pass.
Relight & refine
We relight and lightly enhance the food you actually cooked — sharper texture, fresher look. Nothing added, nothing faked.
Ship it
Download in ~30 seconds and upload it to your menu.
Good to know.
Can you make my burger look taller than it is?
We relight for depth and contrast so the existing layers separate and read as a proper stack, but we do not add patties, cheese or height that were not there. The burger in the photo is the build you served, lit to look its best.
My cheese set and stopped looking melty. Can that come back?
Yes. The relight restores the glossy sheen to the cheese already draped over your patty, so it reads molten and just-melted again. It works with the cheese in your photo and never paints in an extra drip that did not happen.
Will the toasted bun and sesame still look like mine?
Exactly like yours. PlateRefresh relights the bun you toasted, recovering its golden highlights and texture. The sesame pattern, the char and the shape stay unchanged, so the thumbnail matches the burger the delivery customer unwraps.
How cheap is it to try one burger?
Test Mode costs a one-time $9.99 for seven credits, watermark-free with a commercial license. That is enough for your hero burger and a handful of sides, letting you see the relit result on a live menu before you pick a plan.
Your next menu photo is one shot away.
No subscription to start. Test Mode is a one-time $9.99 — relight your real dishes and see them on your menu today.
Start for $9.99