Bring your menu options to life
Digital menu boards make it easier to communicate offerings clearly and efficiently. They allow quick updates and highlight profitable items or promotions, helping drive sales. They also create a modern, appealing atmosphere in restaurants, cafes, and at food counters.
We’ve supplied and installed thousands of digital menu boards around the UK at restaurants, cinemas, fast food outlets, bowling alleys, bars, stadiums and many other food retail venues.
We can also help you create compelling content, unique to your brand, that will market your food and beverage offering more effectively.
What are digital menu boards?
Digital menu boards are used to showcase your menu items, prices, promotions, product images and other customer information. This menu-style of digital signage is typically made up of four key elements: a screen, media player (a small computer), a mount, and software managed through an internet connection.
From a technical point of view, they’re just like any other standard digital signage display, with the only difference being the content that appears on the screen.
If your screens are in or above a hot, humid kitchen or outdoors, you’ll need hardware that’s designed for that environment. Outdoor menu boards (e.g. for drive-through) will also need an enclosure to protect them.
Types of digital menu board we can supply & install (models/prices on request)
All standard sizes (32″-55″) & manufacturers (e.g. Samsung, NEC, LG, Phillips)
Portrait, square, or landscape
Touchscreen or display only
Indoor and outdoor use
(with enclosure or mount)
LCD or LED screens
Choosing Saturn for your digital menu boards
Experience – We specialise in digital menu boards and know which screens/mounts to use to optimise the space and budget you have available, and where to put them for the best viewing distances and to avoid damage.
Prices – We’ll liaise with our suppliers to get you the best deal on your screens and any other hardware you need, and install it.
Convenience – In addition to supplying hardware, we can also install it, provide content management software, and give you ongoing technical support.
Content – Our in-house content creation team can design menu board artwork for you and produce eye-catching animation to highlight your most profitable products and promotions. We also have a software development team who can integrate different types of software (e.g. EPOS systems) into your displays.
Some of our menu board clients
How much do digital menu boards cost?
Prices for digital menu signage can change depending on a number of factors, which means we can’t offer a definitive all-in-one cost. There are three key reasons we take into consideration to get the fairest and best possible quote to you:
- We set our hardware prices based on what we’re paying. We shop around for the best prices, and where we can, we use bulk buying to get better rates from our suppliers and pass those savings on to you. If we charged a flat rate, you’d inevitably pay more.
- The more hardware and services you buy from us, the more our prices come down. We like to form long term relationships with our clients and reward them for spending more with us.
- Prices and models vary massively. There are so many different screen sizes and models with different benefits for different prices, that showing the price of one or two can be really misleading.
Menu board mounts/enclosures we can supply & install
Hanging mounts
Wall mounts
Counter-top mounts
Freestanding/totem enclosures
Recessed mounts (to avoid screen damage in busy areas)
Outdoor enclosures
Kiosk enclosures (capable of taking cash/card payments and printing receipts)
Advantages of using digital menu boards
Volume of promotional space – Digital menu boards are a flexible and efficient way to manage and market your menu. They’re vivid so they attract more attention than static printed signs and give you much more promotional space to work with. They enables you to show menu items, price lists, calorie/allergen info, highlight promotions, show attractive product imagery that will appeal to your customers.
Attention-grabbing animation – Attractive imagery is proven to influence sales, with 93% of purchasing decisions influenced by a product’s visual appearance. Digital menu boards give you the ability to animate your menu, showing videos of products from different angles and in different serving suggestions, making them look more attractive.
Flexibility – Menu boards also give you the flexibility to change your menu or promotional messages at any given time. As such, you can dial up/down the frequency of whichever information you want in line with stock availability, customer demographics at different times, or even the weather. You can also have seasonal menus that switch automatically on a specified date.
Automatic price updates – You can integrate digital menu board displays with EPOS systems so any changes are updated on screen automatically, ensuring your prices and availability are always accurate.
If you’re interested in using digital signage for retail, why not check out our article about why and how different retailers are using it?
Content we can create for digital menu boards
Branded menu board layouts
Promotion/product animation
Product photography
Synchronised screen takeovers
Ingredient marketing
Product profiling
Using our custom SaturnVision software for your digital menu boards
Our cloud-based, digital signage content management software has been designed with retail, leisure, and hospitality in mind. It will enable you to:
- Promote different products at different times (schedule messages by day/time/frequency)
- Synchronise content across screens
- Split the display to distract waiting customers (e.g. news feed, live TV)
- Integrate third party systems (e.g. EPOS) with your display
It also offers a system crash auto-restart function to aid continuity, and sleep mode to maximise screen life.
Digital Menu Board FAQs
Questions about digital menu signage? Here's what most customers are asking
Do customers prefer digital menus over printed menus?
A number of studies show that customers increasingly prefer digital menus because they are easier to read and visually engaging, making ordering faster. Digital menu boards help improve the customer experience while highlighting promotions and best-selling items.
What industries use digital menu board signage?
Digital menu board signage is used across many industries, including restaurants, cafés, cinemas, fast-food and QSR locations, bars, retail stores, convenience stores, hotels, and entertainment venues.
Are there any drawbacks to digital menu boards?
Digital menu boards require an initial investment and reliable power, but most businesses see long-term benefits such as reduced printing costs and wastage, with much easier updates and increased sales through digital promotions.
Are digital menu boards easy to update?
Yes. Digital menu boards are easy to update and manage. Menu changes, pricing updates, and promotional content can be updated in minutes remotely, without reprinting or rebuilding entire menus. This gives businesses a quick and simple way to A/B test various promotions and price points.
Do you provide the TVs and hardware for digital menu boards?
Absolutely, we provide all the hardware, including screens, as part of our digital menu board solutions, ensuring professional installation and optimal display quality.
Can digital menu boards display promotions and specials?
Digital menu boards are the perfect solution for displaying daily specials, limited-time offers, and promotional content that can increase average order value.
Can digital menu boards be customised for my brand?
Yes. Our digital menu boards can be fully customised to match your brand, including colours, fonts, layouts, and visuals.
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