Advertising boards & digital signage
A digital menu board is less a product than a job: show the right items and prices, at the right time of day, in the place where customers decide what to order. The screen is chosen to suit the position. The value comes from how easily your team can change what it shows.
That is why there is no single menu board model. Digital Menu Boards (view the range) are put together from display families matched to the position: Wall-Mounted Advertising Displays (view the range) in a row above the counter, Stretched Bar Displays (view the range) where height is tight, and high-brightness shop window displays where the menu faces the street. Where orders are called for collection, an Order Collection & Queue Screen (view the range) can sit alongside.
Content management is scoped separately, around who changes the menu, how often, and across how many sites. If you also take orders on kiosks or at a till, the menu board can be planned as part of a wider restaurant ordering set-up so that items and prices come from one source, subject to the agreed integration. The restaurant workflow page shows how the screens, kiosks and kitchen fit together.
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Wall-mounted advertising displays
Slim wall-mounted advertising screens in sixteen sizes from 10.1 to 98 inch, with Full HD as standard, an optional 4K panel and USB, Android or Windows playback.
Digital menu boards
Single or multi-screen digital menu boards for counters and collection points, built from our display families and paired with content management scoped to you.
Stretched bar displays
Ultra-wide bar screens in sixteen sizes from 19.5 to 80 inch for shelf edges, counters and narrow wall bands, in wall-mount or open-frame formats.
Digital menu boards
Collection screens that show customers which orders are being prepared and which are ready, linked to your kiosks, tills and kitchen.
Where they fit
Replace printed or lightbox menus with a row of screens that can be updated when a price or an item changes, without reprinting.
Show breakfast, lunch and evening menus on the same screens, with the changeover scheduled where content management is scoped for it.
Put the menu and today's specials in the window on a high-brightness display so they can be read from the street.
Show order numbers being prepared and ready to collect, alongside the menu, as part of a restaurant ordering workflow.
Example application: a menu beside a drive-through lane uses a screen from the outdoor display range, not an indoor one.
Dedicate one screen to meal deals, new items or loyalty offers so the main menu stays easy to read.
Choosing
Most menu boards use a row of standard 16:9 wall displays side by side, each carrying a section of the menu. Where there is little height above the counter, a stretched bar display gives a long, shallow strip instead. The frames between screens stay visible, so menus are designed screen by screen so that no item or price falls across a join.
Brightness follows the position. Wall-mounted displays are listed at 300 to 450 nits for interior walls. Stretched bar displays are listed at 300 or 700 nits. A menu facing the street through glass needs the shop window range at 1,000 to 2,500 nits, and a menu outside the building needs an outdoor display.
A small café with a fixed menu can run image files from USB media and change them by hand. A business with daily specials, several sites or frequent price changes is better served by networked Android or Windows configurations with content management, scoped around who is allowed to change what.
In a restaurant ordering system the menu board is an optional element alongside the cashier station, ordering kiosks, kitchen screen or printer and the queue screen. Linking the menu board to the same item and price data can be scoped, but it is a software integration, not something the screen does by itself.
Beyond the hardware
Applications and management tools are designed and built per project, then quoted separately from the hardware.
Hardware, software and services combined around a job you need done.
Questions
No. A digital menu board is a use of display hardware, not a separate model with its own specification. We select screens from the wall-mounted, stretched bar or shop window ranges to suit the position, then scope the content management that keeps the menu current. Your quotation lists the chosen screens, mounts and any software separately.
That depends on how the content side is set up. With standalone USB playback, someone replaces the image files by hand. With networked screens, content management can be scoped so that an authorised person edits the menu once and publishes it to every screen. We scope that around your business: who can make changes, whether head office controls prices, and how many sites are involved. See digital signage content management.
Scheduling by time of day is a common content management requirement and can be scoped for your project. It needs networked screens on an Android or Windows configuration, not standalone USB playback. Tell us your day-parts and how often they change when you enquire.
It can be scoped, subject to the agreed integration. The screens themselves only display content, so showing live items, prices or sold-out status from a till or ordering system means connecting to that system's data. Whether that is practical depends on what your system can share. We cover this under software integration and restaurant ordering.
It depends on the length of your menu, the width of the counter and how far away customers stand when they choose. A short menu read from close range may need one or two screens. A long menu with photographs needs more. Send us a photo of the counter area, rough dimensions and your current menu, and we will suggest a layout with your quotation.
Describe what the screen needs to do and where it will go. We will recommend the right hardware and software and confirm the configuration in a written quotation.