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There are business owners who greenlight even this crapola thinking the generated content is good enough, or because they want to get into the AI bandwagon because it's so goddamn cheap to them, so that they don't have to pay a professional photographer, a layout artist and a printing press just for a set of menus. All they care about is the results, cut to the chase, and that's instant gratification.
If you want to be cheap, just don't show the food. That's what the penny pinchers used to do before the advent of clip art; print out a bare list of meals on the cheapest colored paper they could find.
If they were feeling really fancy, they'd laminate it and be uncomfortably insistent about getting it back.
Sure, they can do either one of these, but where I live, business owners are very vain, have little appreciation of art, but want to be seen as "sophisticated"; they love LLM immediacy, it's almost magic to them, because they don't have to come visit a print shop, tell what they want, then come back and be presented three different layout samples to choose from before final production.