Food & Drink · page 16

What is in here

Cakes and baked goods lead, then bottles, glasses and cups for the drinks side, mushrooms and produce for ingredients, ice cream for the sweet end, and tea and coffee for the everyday. Packaging turns up throughout: bags, boxes, jars and containers, which matters for anything about delivery rather than eating.

Where these get used

Delivery apps and restaurant sites need a lot of these at once, one per cuisine or dish type, and they need them consistent because the menu grid is the whole interface. Recipe sites use them for ingredients and steps. Grocery and meal kit services use them for category navigation, cafes and bars for menus, and nutrition apps for logging, where somebody is tapping through dozens of items and recognition speed is the feature. Menu design and print material uses them where a photograph of every dish is not realistic. Dietary and allergen labelling uses the ingredient icons, and hospitality booking products use the drinks set for venue types, which is one of the few filters people genuinely read before choosing.