MENU BOARDS
Give your café, bar, or restaurant a rotating split-flap menu board that updates itself. Show specials, prices, and happy-hour deals on any TV, and edit text the moment a dish sells out or a price changes — the cells flip like an old Solari board.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A split-flap menu board that keeps up with service
Lay the board out like a menu, not a spreadsheet. One row per item with a name column and a right-aligned price column reads fastest; six to ten rows per section keeps type large enough to read from the queue. A narrow board above the espresso machine might carry only today's specials in four rows, while a full menu wall splits food and drinks across scenes instead of cramming both. Fork a menu template and resize rows and columns until the cheapest seat in the house can read the priciest item.
Plan for mid-service edits, because menus change mid-service. Prices, items, and the soup of the day are plain text fields — edit from a phone at the register and the cell flips on screen instantly, so an eighty-six never lingers on the board. A happy-hour section pairs naturally with a countdown widget ticking to the end of the deal, and a wait-time row can be typed in by the host or fed from a JSON endpoint if your queue system exposes one; live feeds are a Business-plan feature.
Rotate sections through scenes on a timing that matches how people order. A working loop for a bar: cocktails for 30 seconds, beer and wine for 20, food for 20 — each duration set per scene, cycling on its own through the night. Swap the rotation daypart by daypart: a breakfast scene until 11, lunch specials after. Colors are editable per fork, so the board picks up the room's palette, and the same dashboard drives the second screen in the window.
- 01Daily specials and soup of the day
- 02Happy-hour and drink pricing
- 03Rotating sections for food and drinks
- 04Quick price and item edits
- 05Sold-out swaps in seconds
Can I rotate between food and drink menus?
Yes. Set sections to cycle automatically, so the board flips from mains to cocktails to specials on a timing you control.
How fast can I change a price during service?
Edit the text and the cell flips immediately on screen — no reprinting, no hardware, no waiting on a designer.
What TVs work behind the bar?
Any TV with a browser, including Chromecast, Fire TV, Apple TV, and smart TVs, so you can reuse the screens you already have.
How much does a digital menu board cost?
Building the menu is free, so you can lay out sections and prices before committing. Running it live on the TV behind the bar is $8/mo on Starter for one screen; Pro at $29/mo covers five screens across the dining room and kitchen pass.
Can one account run menu boards at several locations?
Yes. Every screen connects to the same dashboard, so a two-site café updates shared items once while each shop keeps its own specials scene. Pro covers five displays for $29/mo, and a price change pushes to every location's board in real time.
START FROM A TEMPLATE
Pick a board, customize the copy and data, and open it in a supported Chrome or Edge player.