A free digital menu board on your café TV shows the menu big enough to read from the door, with dietary letters and a key that explains them, beside the customer wifi and a QR code for reviews or your website. Type the menu once from your phone, and a new price or a sold-out dish is on the screen within a minute.
No printed board to rewrite, no designer to call for a price change, and no box of software behind the counter: the TV opens a web page, and that is the whole setup.
The menu, and the letters that explain it
Write the menu the way you would on a chalkboard: a heading for each section, then each dish with its price, written however you write prices, and a short description if it needs one. Give a dish its dietary letters, V for vegetarian, VG for vegan, GF for gluten-free, DF for dairy-free, N for contains nuts, S for spicy and 0% for alcohol-free, and the menu shows a key with exactly the letters it uses, so nobody has to guess what "GF" means. Switch the letters off and the key goes with them: a letter never shows without its meaning.
On a wide tile the menu reads like a printed one, down the first column and on into the second, and a menu longer than the tile turns its pages by itself, the section heading repeated at the top of each.
A screen on its side
Plenty of café screens hang in portrait above the counter. Pick Portrait when you make the board and the menu runs down the middle of a tall screen, with everything else above and below it, rather than a wide layout squeezed sideways.
The customer wifi
Put the network on the board and it shows a code a phone's camera reads to join, so the question stops coming to the till. You can show the code alone, without the password printed, and change the password whenever you like: the code follows. The wifi guide has the rest.
A code for reviews or your website
A QR code tile points phones at any link you give it. Tell it the link is a review page and it says "Leave us a review" above the code; a menu to take away, your website or your social pages each get their own words. The site it opens is named under the code, so nobody scans it blind.
Only while you're open
Set the board's hours to your opening hours and outside them the screen goes dark, with only a dim clock, rather than lighting up an empty room all night. Left on all day, the layout drifts a fraction every few minutes so nothing burns into the panel.
Breakfast, then lunch
On Pro and the Event Pass one TV holds up to four pages: a breakfast page and a lunch page, each with its own menu, and a schedule that shows each one at its hours on its own. A tile you want on every page, the wifi or your logo, is pinned there once. On the free plan, one menu holds both, with a heading for each.
Your logo
A picture of your own is on the free plan: your logo, the counter, today's cake. On Pro your logo sits on the board itself, your own color runs through it, and our name comes off it.
A board worth copying
Pick "Menu board" when you make the board. The menu takes half the screen, big enough to read from the door, and beside it your logo sits over the customer wifi and a code for your website. That is four tiles. On a screen turned on its side the logo leads, the menu fills the middle, and the wifi and the code share the bottom.
For a room where people wait rather than order, the waiting room layout has a calm video and a check-in code, and the office guide covers a noticeboard for the team out back. The layouts guide has every starting point.