AI Took On Cooking Food for Restaurants. The Result Was Jacket Potatoes, Bacon in Soda and a Complete Gastronomic Nightmare! 🍔 😂

On 23 October 2026, in the UK and Ireland shared the news. 🍔

It seems artificial intelligence has finally decided to take over the restaurant business. But it started not with cooking food, but with photographing it. And judging by the results, the first thing it should have been told is what breakfast is! 😂

The popular food delivery service Just Eat decided to make life easier for restaurateurs and offered to create photos of dishes using artificial intelligence.

The idea looked magnificent: why spend money on a professional photographer, lighting, beautiful dishes and plating if you can simply type the name from the menu and the AI will draw an appetizing meal in a few seconds?

In theory — a saving of time and money.

In practice — a new variety of culinary surrealism!

🥓 Bacon in a glass of cola. Enjoy your meal!

One of the most remarkable failures happened with the traditional Irish breakfast.

The menu mentioned soda bread — Irish soda bread, which is made using baking soda.

But artificial intelligence apparently decided that the word soda means exclusively a carbonated drink.

And it created a genuine masterpiece!

Instead of bread, there appeared a fizzy drink with bacon, fried eggs and sausages floating in it!

Just imagine the reaction of a hungry customer who wanted to order an ordinary breakfast and was presented with a glass of cola with fried bacon.

What's more, from the AI's point of view everything is logical: there's soda, there's breakfast, all the ingredients are in place.

And if the customer doesn't like it, you can always say it's a new protein shake for especially daring athletes! 🤣

🥔 A potato in a jacket. Literally!

But the next masterpiece turned out to be even more splendid.

On a British menu there appeared a dish called jacket potato.

That is what baked potatoes in their skins are called in the UK — a popular and utterly ordinary dish.

However, the artificial intelligence decided that what was meant was a jacket.

And it drew… an actual jacket covered in potatoes!

Perhaps somewhere in the neural network's digital consciousness this seemed quite reasonable.

After all, if potatoes in their uniforms can exist, why shouldn't potatoes in a jacket exist too?

Preferably a winter one, insulated and with a hood.

It seems that for the first time in the history of the restaurant business, a customer was offered not to eat their lunch but to wear it! 😂

All that's left is to imagine future clothing lines from artificial intelligence:

A potato puffer jacket, pasta trousers and a broccoli hat.

And all of it — with free delivery!

✈️ Garlic bread unexpectedly took to aviation

The digital chef's imagination did not end there.

Instead of the usual garlic bread, one of the illustrations showed something resembling an aeroplane made of bread.

Perhaps the artificial intelligence decided it was time to develop not only the restaurant business but also transport infrastructure.

The aeroplane turned out to be quite unusual.

True, a question arises: how long can it fly before the passengers eat the wings?

On the other hand, the airline could be the first in the world to offer a fully edible aeroplane. And even without an extra charge for in-flight meals! 😁

🤖 The AI did its best. People, for some reason, did not appreciate it

The most interesting thing is that the artificial intelligence was not trying to be funny at all.

It was carrying out the assigned task in complete earnest.

The problem was that dish names often contain set expressions, cultural peculiarities and words with several meanings.

A person understands that a potato in its jacket does not serve in the army, and that a guinea pig does not live in the ocean.

For a neural network, such expressions sometimes turn into a real trap.

And the result can turn out to be very unexpected.

Especially when it comes to food that a person is going to order with their own money.

After all, it is one thing to see a funny picture on the internet.

And quite another to pay for dinner based on an image in which a sausage is floating in soda!

🍽️ Restaurants decided that photographers are useful after all

After the unusual images drew the attention of internet users, the company Just Eat acknowledged the problem.

The service apologised and suspended the experiment with automatically generated images of dishes.

And that is perhaps the funniest thing in the whole story.

The technology was invented to make life easier for restaurants, save money and speed up work.

And as a result, it had to explain to the entire internet why a potato jacket had appeared on the menu!

Perhaps now professional food photographers can breathe a sigh of relief.

Until artificial intelligence learns to tell garlic bread from an aeroplane, there is still no doing without a human in the kitchen and behind the camera.

Though, if you think about it, this story also has a positive side.

The AI unexpectedly invented a completely new direction in gastronomy — a cuisine that is better not to taste, but very fun to look at! 😂

And most importantly, now restaurants know that artificial intelligence is capable not only of creating images of dishes, but also of boosting an establishment's popularity completely free of charge.

True, not always for the reason one would have liked.

And imagine the restaurant of the future:

Customer: “I'd like a potato in its jacket, please.”

AI: “What size? S, M or XL?”

Customer: “Could I have it with butter?”

AI: “Of course! And with a fur collar!” 🤣

The main conclusion: artificial intelligence can already draw food, but for now it is better not to trust it with compiling a menu. Otherwise one day you'll order a coffee with milk — and get a photograph of a cow in a cup! ☕🐄😂