Realistic food with corny and artificial looking nails, sign, wood.

I'd suggest either making the food cartoony or make the other objects more realistic.

If anything at least give the food shadows so they don't look like a copy pasta.

no chance this will ever work
if you go for a realistic look for food establisments the only way is to photograph what you want.(i.e. peppercorns on a wood table / typeface written in salt, whatsoever)
otherwise you should go for a stylized look.

Good to know

Harder and darker drop shadows on the foods. Also the colors need to be adjusted, that's what's making it look so fake. Better off creating it and shooting it.

Imo maybe lower the opacity (or raise it? whatever makes it less clear) on the sign words a bit and make the sign and words a tad bigger

>>256990
this.