The dish photo guests send with their rating

What the image attachment in a rating is

The dish photo is an optional attachment inside a qmen.us rating. It doesn't have its own screen: on the first of the rating's two screens — the one that asks What was worth it? — each item in the order becomes a card with a thumbs up, a thumbs down and an Add photo button. The guest picks an item, sends the image, taps Continue and moves on to the score. Nothing there is required: they can skip every attachment and rate just the same.

The guest does this in the browser of the phone that scanned the table QR code, with no app to install and no account needed. Our side of the work is handling the file size: the image is rotated to the camera's correct orientation, shrunk to fit 800 pixels on its longest side and re-saved as WebP — the same treatment a menu item image gets. What's stored is that light version, attached to the order when it's uploaded and tied to the rating when the guest taps Send rating.

Why let guests photograph what they ate

• You see what left the prep station on that shift. The image comes from whoever ate, at the table, minutes after Served. It's the real plating of the day, not the catalog photo you added to the menu item.
• No app or sign-in needed. It all runs in the browser of the phone that scanned the table QR code. Someone rating without an account attaches an image just like someone signed in, and nobody has to look for anything in an app store.
• The attachment knows which dish it belongs to. It's created inside the item's card, with the dish name stored alongside it. If you rename or delete that menu item later, the image still says what it was.
• The image arrives light. A photo of several megabytes straight from the camera becomes a WebP 800 pixels on its longest side, so the upload doesn't stall on the dining room Wi-Fi and storage doesn't fill up with huge phone files.
• It's free, like everything else. qmen.us doesn't charge the restaurant or take a commission per order, and it's not a marketplace: this rating, image and all, belongs to your restaurant, made at your table.

How guests send a dish photo in 6 steps

Six steps: two to reach the rating screen, three to attach the image and one to finish with the stars.

1. Let the order reach Served

   The rating invitation isn't up all the time. It appears on the table page when the order is Served, the table hasn't been freed yet and nobody has rated that order before. While the items are Draft or Preparing, the guest only sees the progress, with no rating card.

2. Tap Rate your order

   At the bottom of the table page the How was it? card appears, with the line "Takes 30 seconds. The owner reads everything." and tags for that order's items. The Rate your order button opens the first of the two screens, the one that asks What was worth it? — with one card per item and a small progress bar at the top.

3. On the item's card, tap Add photo

   Each card shows the dish name, the quantity, the line amount, the two thumbs and, below, the Add photo button with a camera icon. When they tap it, the phone offers to take a photo on the spot or pick one from the gallery. It's one image per item: the attachment is tied to that dish, not to the whole order.

   Tip: Someone who already sent an image sees Change photo instead of Add photo. Sending another one replaces the first — the two don't stack.

4. Check the badge on the card

   As soon as the file is picked, a green check reading Photo selected appears above the button. If the guest comes back to this screen later and the attachment is already stored, the badge shows Photo added. The thumbs up is still optional: they can attach the image without rating the dish.

5. Tap Continue to upload the image

   Until that tap, the file is only selected on the phone. Continue is what sends it: the image reaches the server, is rotated to the camera's correct orientation, shrunk to fit 800 pixels on its longest side, re-saved as WebP and attached to that table's order. A cancelled item doesn't even appear in the list; a custom item comes in with the name the waiter typed.

6. Finish on the score screen

   The second screen asks And how was [restaurant name]? and asks for stars — the Send rating button stays grayed out until the guest taps one. There they can also choose quick tags, write a public comment and, if they like, a private note to the owner. It's when this is sent that the images already uploaded are tied to the order's rating.

Frequently asked questions

Glossary

Rate your order

The button on the How was it? card, which shows on the table page once the order is Served and opens the two rating screens.

Add photo

The button inside each item's card in the rating. It opens the phone's camera or gallery and attaches a picture to that dish.

Change photo

What the button says once that item already has a picture. The new one replaces the old; each item keeps just one picture.

Photo added

The badge with a check mark that shows on the item's card once the picture of that dish is saved to the order.

WebP

A lightweight image format. Every item photo is converted to it on upload, with the longest side capped at 800 pixels.

Related resources