Home/Menu Shoot Cost Planner
Melbourne · VIC
Why we built this
Hospitality photography
should be costable.
Most photographers quote in conversation. We built a planner so you can sanity-check the cost before the call — and lock in a written quote on the same day.
Volume-tier pricing
$30 per image at small menus, $25 mid-range, $10 per image once you hit 100+ images. The planner does the maths for you.
Add-ons are obvious
Drinks, desserts, venue and reels each have a clear line — you can see exactly how each toggle changes the total.
No surprises later
What the planner returns is what the written quote returns. We invoice that number, not more.
How much will it cost to
shoot your menu?
Drag the slider. Tick the add-ons. You'll see the price in three clicks — we hand-confirm everything on a quick call.
Free · No login · Reply within 1 business day
How many dishes?
· 15–20 images @ $30 · 21–99 @ $25 · 100+ @ $10 (min spend $1,000)
What's on the menu?
Add-ons
Step 1 of 3 · Estimate is hand-confirmed on a quick phone call
Live preview · sample frames
No travel fees
Inside Greater Melbourne
5–7 days
Standard turnaround
1 free re-edit
Per dish, no questions
Full licence
Owned + earned channels
What the number above actually buys you
A typical $850 menu shoot for a 22-dish Vietnamese restaurant in Footscray buys a half-day on-site shoot, 22 finished images in 3 crops each (1:1 Uber Eats, 4:5 Instagram, 16:9 website), colour-graded delivery in 5 working days, one free re-edit per dish, and full commercial licence for your owned and earned channels. A $1,950 shoot for a 60-dish two-trade venue in the CBD buys a full day on-site, 60 hero images plus Uber Eats and Google Business assets, 5–8 vertical Reels clips, plus a second photographer for venue interior. Everything bigger (multi-venue rollouts, franchise campaigns, OOH-grade brand campaigns) is quoted bespoke — usually inside 48 hours.
Three real Melbourne examples
- Suburb café, Brunswick — $540 14 dishes, brunch + coffee + venue sweep, half-day morning shoot before doors.
- Mid restaurant, Carlton — $980 26 dishes, menu refresh + Uber Eats + Instagram supporting set, half-day shoot.
- Group venue, Southbank — $1,950 60 dishes, full library + Reels + Google Business, full-day shoot with second photographer.
Coverage · All Melbourne, no travel fees
A transparent menu-shoot cost
for every Melbourne suburb.
The estimator above is the same one we use internally. Final quotes are confirmed by phone — usually inside five minutes — and they don't move from what the planner shows you.
Menu Shoot Cost Melbourne CBD
City restaurants, hotel kitchens, hospitality groups
Menu Shoot Cost Brunswick
Cafés, wine bars, neighbourhood restaurants
Menu Shoot Cost Richmond
Bridge Road and Swan Street venues, high-end dining
Menu Shoot Cost Carlton
Lygon Street restaurants and Italian institutions
Menu Shoot Cost Footscray
West-side food scene — Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Indian
Menu Shoot Cost Glen Waverley
Asian dining strip, family restaurants
Menu Shoot Cost Dandenong
South-east hospitality — Afghan, Indian, Sri Lankan
Menu Shoot Cost Fitzroy
Brunswick Street venues and inner-north bars
Also offered · One photographer, one library
Other ways we shoot for Melbourne hospitality.
Menu Photography
Full-menu image libraries — built for Uber Eats, your website and Google.
Food & Beverage
Hero plates and signature dishes for marketing, launches and editorial.
Uber Eats Photography
Square-crop, app-graded photography for Uber Eats, DoorDash and Menulog.
Cafe Photography
Daylight-led photography for cafés, brunch venues and coffee shops.
Final step · Hand-confirmed quotes
Ready to lock
your shoot day?
Quick form below or call directly. The number from the planner above is the number we invoice — no surprises.
Request a shoot quote