On October 19, 2026, British media reported that food delivery platform Just Eat had apologised for some remarkably strange menu images.
One showed what looked like a glass of cola. Floating inside were sausages, bacon and a fried egg.
No, this wasn’t an experimental breakfast drink. An AI image generator had apparently interpreted a menu item called “Breakfast Soda” as a fizzy drink containing breakfast ingredients.
Just Eat had been trialling AI-enhanced images for restaurants without photographs of their dishes. But after a series of bizarre results came to light, the company paused the rollout.
Here’s the particularly curious part: according to Just Eat, every AI-generated image had been manually checked by a person.
So what exactly did the AI misunderstand? And how did images like these get through human review? To find out, we compared local reporting with actual restaurant menus on Just Eat.