Transform how you present food and beverage offerings with dynamic digital menu boards. Ideal for restaurants, cafes, QSRs, and food courts, update menus, promote daily specials, and showcase mouth-watering visuals that grab customer attention.
Menus change fast, prices move, promotions launch, and guests decide what to order in a few seconds. E Display gives restaurant teams one cloud platform to plan, publish and update every screen, from a single cafe counter to hundreds of locations.
Every menu board runs on our compact digital signage media player, or on our player app installed on any supported device, and is managed from a browser dashboard your staff can learn in an afternoon, no dedicated PC, no new cabling, and no IT ticket for a daily menu change.
Whether you are deploying your first digital menu board or rolling out across a franchise group, E Display scales with you: role-based publishing, approval workflows, and offline caching keep every board live and on brand.
Digital menu board software is $8 per screen per month billed annually, with a free media player on new annual licences. For a full breakdown of screens, installation and design costs, read our digital menu board pricing guide, or browse the free menu board templates built for restaurants, cafés, QSRs, and bakeries.
Every kind of restaurant reads its menu differently. Here is what to put on screen, how many screens to start with, and which free template to open, for the nine restaurant types that use digital menus most.
QSRs live and die by order speed. A three- or four-screen counter wall keeps combos, add-ons and prices in one readable grid, and the same content set drives the drive-thru board outside.
Coffee menus are short and change by daypart. Two portrait screens hold hot drinks on one side and cold drinks plus pastries on the other, and swap to an afternoon menu on a schedule.
Pizza pricing is a grid: size across the top, style down the side. A digital board handles that far better than print, and a second zone rotates the slice of the day and pickup deals.
Flavours rotate weekly and seasonally, so a printed board is out of date constantly. Show the flavour wall with photos, mark sold-out scoops in seconds, and keep sizes and cone prices clear.
Bakeries sell out through the day. Case-top screens list what is available now, push the morning coffee-and-donut bundle, and switch to a lunch sandwich menu without reprinting anything.
Tap lists change constantly and happy hour is a clock problem. Schedule the happy hour board to appear and disappear on its own, and hand the tap screen over to the game when the match starts.
Guests want to know what is in the cup. Give each blend its ingredient list and calorie or protein callout, then walk people through the build-your-own steps in a rotating side panel.
Boba menus are photo-led and heavy on customisation. Use big drink photos, then a clear panel for sizes, sugar and ice levels and toppings so the queue orders faster.
Arenas, cinemas and event venues sell to a rush in short bursts. Keep the list short, the type huge and readable from the queue, and turn stands on and off by event schedule.
Start from a professionally designed menu board and customize prices, items, and branding in minutes.
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E Display runs counter screens, drive-thru boards, promotional zones and multi-screen menu walls from one browser dashboard, whether the rollout is a single cafe or a franchise network. Breakfast, lunch, happy hour and location-specific pricing all come from the same content system, so brand teams can approve layouts centrally while each restaurant keeps its own menu mix and operating hours.
Menus stay usable in a busy room: dayparted schedules, layouts for one screen or four, offline playback when a location loses its internet connection, prices and allergen notes readable at ordering distance, and 60+ built-in apps for data feeds and restaurant content workflows.
Plug in a TX9 TV Stick, sign in, and start publishing to any screen.
Free template library and drag-and-drop editor — no designer required.
Encrypted delivery, role-based access, and 99.9% uptime SLA.
Track dwell time, playback proof-of-play, and campaign performance.
A few restaurant, café and QSR digital menu board installations running on E Display digital signage software.
Upsell combos and specials with eye-catching motion.
Engaging content keeps queues entertained.
Update menus in seconds, no reprinting required.
Three steps from unboxing to a live screen. No IT ticket, no proprietary hardware, no month-long deployment.
Connect the TX9 TV Stick to any TV screen, connect to Wi-Fi, and register it to your E Display CMS account with a 4-digit code.
Pick a free template or upload your own content, then set playlists, dayparts, and location targeting from the cloud dashboard.
Publish to one screen or thousands with a single click. Real-time proof-of-play confirms every screen is on-brand and on-time.
"This solution has allowed for a rapid deployment to be up and running right away, using simple designs for the menu boards of a new restaurant. We are looking forward to creating a more dynamic experience for the diners after the initial launch. Given the depth of the software, we know that the more complex designs will easily be handled by the software."
Restaurant teams often shortlist more than one platform. These side-by-side guides compare pricing, media player options, menu templates, dayparting, offline playback, and support.
Compare pricing, included hardware, restaurant templates, and offline playback.
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Read comparisonE Display digital menu board software is $8 per screen per month billed annually ($96 per screen per year), and annual plans include a free media player. Beyond software, budget roughly $495–$600 for a 43" commercial display, $250–$350 per screen if you hire a local installer, and $0 with our free templates (or a one-time $200 per custom menu design). A typical single-screen restaurant setup lands around $591–$1,091 in year one, then $96 per screen per year after that.
Plug the TX9 media player stick into the HDMI port of any TV, connect it to Wi-Fi, and pair it to your E Display account. You then build your menu in the browser dashboard, pick a menu board template, add items, prices, and photos, and publish. Changes appear on every screen in seconds, and dayparting can automatically swap breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus on schedule.
Any TV with an HDMI port works. A 43" commercial-grade display is the most common choice for counter menu boards because it is rated for all-day operation and typically ships with a 3-year manufacturer warranty. A consumer TV will also run our TX9 stick (or our Android TV app) if you are starting on a tighter budget.
Yes. E Display supports POS and data-feed integrations so prices, item availability, and 86'd items can update automatically, along with over 100 other app integrations for social feeds, weather, and queue displays.
No. E Display includes free, ready-made restaurant, café, QSR, and bakery menu board templates, drop in your items, prices, and photos and go live the same day. If you want a fully branded layout, our design team builds custom menus for a one-time $200 fee per menu design.
Yes. Group screens by location, brand, or format and push menu updates, LTO promotions, and price changes to one store or every store from a single cloud dashboard. Role-based publishing and approval workflows keep franchisees on-brand, and offline caching keeps menus playing if the internet drops.
Pick a restaurant menu template, replace the items, prices and photos in the browser editor, link the price fields to a spreadsheet or POS data, and set dayparts for breakfast, lunch and evening. Then mount the display, plug in the media player, enter the 4-digit pairing code, and publish. Most first boards are live the same afternoon.
The best digital menu board for a restaurant is the one your staff can update without help: flat per-screen pricing with all features included, restaurant templates, dayparting, prices bound to data rather than artwork, and no proprietary hardware. E Display covers all of those at $8 per screen per month billed annually, with a free media player on new annual licences.
Compare on six points: flat pricing without feature tiers, browser-editable restaurant templates, per-screen dayparting, data-driven prices, hardware freedom, and multi-location publishing. E Display includes all six in one price; see our comparisons page for a side-by-side with other digital menu board platforms.
Quick-service restaurants, cafes and coffee shops, pizza parlors, ice cream parlors, bakeries and donut shops, bars and breweries, juice and smoothie bars, bubble tea shops, and concession stands. Anywhere prices, availability or dayparts change often, a digital board pays back fastest.
One is enough. Small cafes, dessert counters and single-till concession stands often run one screen. A QSR counter wall usually starts at three, with a drive-thru board added later. You can add screens at any time without changing how staff publish content.
Yes. Prices can be bound to a spreadsheet or data source, so changing the number in one place updates every screen using that layout. Text, photos and promotions can also be edited directly in the browser editor.
Yes, with a high-brightness outdoor-rated display. The software and media player are the same; the difference is the screen, its enclosure and the simpler layout a driver can read in a few seconds.
E Display software is $8 per screen per month billed annually, all features and 60+ apps included, with a free media player on new annual licences. Displays start from about $495 depending on size and brightness.
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