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SPLIT-FLAP DISPLAYS FOR RESTAURANTS & CAFÉS

Turn any screen into a Solari-style menu board that flips daily specials, happy-hour countdowns, and live wait times into view. Restaurants, cafés, and bars run it in a browser on the TVs they already own — no hardware, no code, just fork a template and pour your own copy.

24 TEMPLATES
Family Command Center Board

A kitchen command center that flips today's date, live Chicago weather, and a next-up countdown through the family's day — 7:45 school run, 3:20 pickup, 6:00 soccer, 8:30 wind-down — with a reminder ticker for lunches, practice, and trash night. Families mount it on the kitchen TV or a spare monitor so the whole household reads one schedule at breakfast.

Product Launch Countdown

A launch war-room board with a countdown to the ship date, a launch-readiness progress bar sitting at 82%, and a status ticker flipping through press queued, email ready, and demo room live. Startup teams run it on the office TV through the final weeks so everyone works against the same clock. Change the target date once and the tension takes care of itself.

Sports Bar Scoreboard

A sports bar scoreboard that flips three game rows at once — scores like NYK 104, BOS 99, clock states like Q4 2:14, and upcoming matchups — above a promo ticker running $8 wings and $16 pitchers. Bars hang it beside the broadcast screens so guests track every game without waiting for the TV ticker. All four rows are message lists you edit between games.

Airport Gate Board

An airport gate board for gate B12 showing flight 204 to Chicago boarding and flight 318 to Denver on time, with a boarding-closes countdown and live Chicago weather underneath. Built for travel-agency lobbies, aviation-themed bars, and event check-ins that want real departure-hall atmosphere. The gate number, both flight rows, and every status word are editable after forking.

Train Departure Board

A classic split-flap train departure board listing morning services to New Haven, Grand Central, Stamford, and Bridgeport with time, destination, and track columns. A next-train widget counts down to the 08:15 and rolls through five departures in sequence. Hang it in a station cafe, a model railway room, or a transit-themed office for the authentic Solari atmosphere.

Cafe Daily Specials Board

A cafe daily specials board with today's date, a rotating coffee lineup, and a pastry ticker for the screen behind the counter. Out of the box it flips through pour overs, oat lattes, and cold brew on one line and almond croissants, banana bread, and lemon tart on another, with your guest Wi-Fi in the footer. The date widget updates itself every morning.

Restaurant Menu Display Board

A restaurant menu display board that lists dishes with prices and a rotating specials ticker on a split-flap TV. The default menu shows a smash burger at $18, salmon bowl at $24, and mushroom risotto at $19, with specials like truffle fries and market fish flipping through below and an allergy note in the footer. Diners at the counter read it like a classic arrivals board.

Startup Metrics Board

A startup metrics board that puts MRR, activation rate, churn, and runway on an office TV in a split-flap layout founders actually read. Defaults show $127k MRR, a 42% activation progress bar, 1.8% churn, and 18 months of runway, with a muted focus line underneath. Fork it, plug in your own numbers, and let the flipping digits keep the whole team honest.

Sales KPI Dashboard TV

A sales KPI dashboard for TVs that tracks daily bookings, total pipeline, quota progress, and recent wins on a split-flap wallboard. The default layout shows $48.2k booked today, a $1.8m pipeline, a 74% quota progress bar, and a ticker cycling closed deals like "northstar closed". Hang it on the sales floor so the whole team watches the numbers flip as they change.

Meeting Room Display Board

A meeting room display board that shows the next booking, live room status, the current time, and rotating handoff notes on any office TV. The layout pairs a next-meeting widget cycling through 09:00, 10:30, 13:00, and 15:30 slots with tickers for availability and AV notes like the HDMI cable and Zoom bar. Mount it outside Room Atlas so teams see status before they knock.

SEO Agency Report Board

An SEO agency reporting board that flips organic traffic (42.8k in the template), lead count, and a top-10 rankings progress bar, with a ticker of next actions like refreshing title tags. Agencies run it on the office wall between client reviews, or on a meeting-room TV during the monthly report. Every metric and action item is editable.

Retirement Countdown Clock

A retirement countdown clock that flips the days until the last working day beside an 83% "plan" progress bar and a ticker of send-off items like booking the trip and finishing the handoff. Teams run it in the office for a colleague's final stretch, or retirees keep it at home. Fork it and set the real retirement date.

Chore Board Display

A family chore board that flips three color-coded task tickers — morning, after school, and evening — plus a green progress bar showing how much of the day's list is done. It hangs on the kitchen or hallway TV where kids actually see it. Fork it and swap in your family's real chores, from feeding the dog to lights out.

Sobriety Counter Board

A sobriety counter board that flips a green day count — 142 in the template — under the words "one day at a time," with a progress bar tracking the road to year one. It works as a private home display or a shared board in a recovery center common room. Edit the streak, goal, and encouragement lines after forking.

Wedding Countdown Board

A wedding countdown board that flips the time remaining until the ceremony above a green planning progress bar and a ticker of open tasks like vows, flowers, and the playlist. Couples run it at home while planning, then venues reuse it for rehearsal dinners and engagement parties. Every date, label, and task line is editable after forking.

Baby Countdown Board

A split-flap baby countdown board that flips the days remaining until an August due date next to a purple progress bar showing how ready you are. It suits a nursery wall, family room TV, or baby shower photo backdrop, with a "bags packed and ready" line underneath. Fork it and set your own due date in seconds.

Social Follower Milestone Board

A creator milestone board pairing a 48.2k follower counter with a goal progress bar sitting at 96%, above a thank-you ticker plugging Friday's video and the next stream. Creators put it behind them on camera or on the studio wall so the community watches the counter close in on the goal. The number, the goal bar, and every message edit in the fork.

Marathon Race Progress Board

A race progress board cycling leader bibs 2041, 118, and 742, a mile-20 progress bar at 76% of the course, live Boston weather, and a finish-area ticker covering the chute, mile-22 water, and the med tent. Race expos, cheer stations, and run clubs use it to give spectators a live sense of where the field is between sightings.

Campus Events Board

A campus events board that counts down to the next event, cycles today's lineup — career fair, film club, guest lecture, open lab — and flips announcements like late library hours and finals-week coffee. Student centers, libraries, and department lobbies run it as always-on signage that student workers can update in a browser without a designer or a print run.

Ferry Terminal Board

A ferry terminal board that counts down to the next sailing, rotates dock assignments, and pulls live wind speed from the Open-Meteo API so passengers see conditions before boarding. Sailings at 07:40, 08:20, 09:05, and 10:00 cycle through the next-sailing widget while a notices row flips boarding rules like "bikes board first." Suited to terminal waiting rooms, harbor offices, and waterfront restaurants.

Bar Happy Hour Countdown

A bar TV board with a live countdown to happy hour and a rotating ticker of drink specials in split-flap style. The countdown flips down to the 5pm start while specials like $9 spritzes, $6 drafts, and $4 tacos cycle underneath, with a 21+ reminder in the footer. The ticking flaps give regulars a reason to stay for one more round.

Call Center Wallboard

A call center wallboard that puts queue depth, average wait, service level, and agents ready on one split-flap TV display. The default layout shows 12 callers in queue, a 02:14 average wait, a 91% service-level progress bar, and 24 agents available — the four numbers every floor supervisor watches. Color coding turns the queue orange so pressure is visible across the room.

Warehouse Pick Rate Board

A warehouse operations board that tracks pick rate, order progress, dock activity, and the safety streak on a large floor TV. Defaults show 184 picks per hour, a 68% orders progress bar, a rotating dock ticker ("dock 2 loading", "forklift lane clear"), and 41 days safe. Shift leads and pickers read the day's pace from across the floor.

Customer Support Queue Board

A customer support wallboard that shows open tickets, SLA health, CSAT, and rotating handoff notes on a TV above the support team. Defaults display 37 open tickets, an 86% SLA progress bar, 94% CSAT, and a ticker with escalation reminders like "watch enterprise queue". Agents see queue pressure at a glance instead of digging through the help desk.

Split-flap menu boards for restaurants, cafés, and bars

Your menu changes during service, and the board should keep up. Every item and price on a flaps.tv board is a plain text field: eighty-six a dish from the phone in your apron pocket and the cell flips on the screen behind the bar before the next ticket prints. Lay the board out one row per item with a right-aligned price column, six to ten rows per section, and size the type so the back of the queue can read the specials.

Let the theatrical part work for you. A happy-hour section with a countdown widget ticking to the end of the deal sells urgency better than a chalkboard ever did, and a wait-time row — typed in by the host, or fed from your reservation system's JSON feed on the Business plan — keeps the door calm on a Friday. The flip animation runs at 60 FPS in the TV's browser, so the board reads as a fixture, not a slideshow.

Scenes carry the daypart changes you currently handle with laminated inserts. A breakfast scene until eleven, lunch specials after, cocktails taking the longest slot at night — each scene has its own duration and the rotation runs itself through service. A second location forks the same board, keeps shared items in sync from one dashboard, and runs its own specials scene. Going live starts at $8/mo per screen, and the TVs you already own do the displaying.

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
  • 01Today's specials in flipping departures-board type
  • 02Happy-hour countdown ticking to zero
  • 03Live wait-time and table-ready board
  • 04Soup of the day, rotating
  • 05Tap-list and pour prices
  • 06Closing-soon and last-call notices
WHAT TO KNOW
Can I update the lunch board without a staff member at the screen?

Yes. Edit specials and prices from your phone or laptop and the split-flap board updates in real time on every TV at once — no walking around with a marker.

Will the wait-time board pull from our reservation or queue system?

If your system exposes JSON or an API, flaps.tv connects to it and flips the live number automatically; otherwise a host can type the wait time in seconds.

Does the flip animation slow down the kitchen TVs we already use?

No. It runs in the browser on any Chromecast, Fire TV, or smart TV, so the same screens showing tickets can split between menu and ops without new equipment.

What does a menu board cost for a small café?

Building the board is free, so you can lay out the menu before spending anything. Running it live on the TV behind the counter is $8/mo on Starter for one screen; Pro at $29/mo covers five screens across the room and the pass.

Can the board switch menus through the day automatically?

Yes. Build breakfast, lunch, and dinner as separate scenes with their own durations and the board rotates on schedule without staff touching it. A happy-hour scene can join the loop in the evening and drop out at close.

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