Restaurant digital signage that keeps your menus fresh and your customers informed
Display digital menu boards, daily specials, event nights and opening hours on any screen in your restaurant or cafe. Update everything from your phone. Set up in minutes.
No credit card required · Cancel anytime · From £10/Location/month
The problem
Your specials board is wrong before lunch service starts
Every restaurant and cafe has the same problem. The food changes faster than the signs do.
The kitchen gets a delivery at 7am and the chef builds a specials list around what is fresh. By 11am that list is scribbled on a chalkboard near the door, and the server is reading it aloud to every table because half the dining room cannot see it from where they are sitting.
By 2pm the sea bass has sold out. The chalkboard still says sea bass. A customer orders it. The server walks back to apologise. The customer is annoyed. The kitchen is annoyed. The server is in the middle. Meanwhile, the printed menu in the window still shows last month's prices, and the poster for your quiz night is still advertising a date that already happened.
Why it matters
The real cost of outdated menus and signs in your restaurant
Customers decide in 3 seconds
They glance at the window. A screen showing today's menu and opening hours in clear, branded type says "this place has it together." A smudged chalkboard says something else.
Specials boards create extra work
When specials are on a small chalkboard, servers spend the first minute of every table interaction reciting the list. Multiply by 40 covers at lunch and that is an hour spent reading menus aloud.
Sold-out items frustrate customers
A customer walks in specifically for the steak pie on the specials board. They sit down, order a drink, and discover it is gone. That emotional dip colours the rest of the meal.
Seasonal changes pile up as printing costs
New spring menu? Reprint. Price increase? Reprint. Bank holiday hours? Print a sign. A single-site cafe can spend £500–800 a year on materials that are outdated within weeks.
The solution
Digital signage for restaurants that your team can update between services
NowBoard is restaurant digital signage software built for menus, specials, and customer information — not advertising loops and video walls. Plug a NowBoard Player into any TV or screen in your restaurant and start displaying useful, up-to-date content within minutes.
No AV contractor. No design agency. No complicated software. Your head chef, front-of-house manager, or cafe owner can update every screen in the building from their phone, laptop, or tablet — even during a busy service.
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Plug in a NowBoard Player
A small device (about the size of a phone charger) that connects to any TV via HDMI. Uses your existing wifi. Costs from £139.
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Add your content
Menus, specials, event promotions, opening hours. Use NowBoard's templates or build your own layout with your restaurant's branding.
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Screens update instantly
Change a price, swap out a sold-out dish, or add tomorrow's event. Every connected screen refreshes automatically. No reprinting. No rubbing out the chalkboard.
Use cases
Six ways restaurants and cafes use NowBoard every day
Digital menu boards
The screen that replaces the printed menu, the chalkboard, and the laminated card in one go
A NowBoard menu display screen shows your full menu — starters, mains, desserts, drinks — in a clean, branded layout. When a price changes, update it from your phone. When the kitchen runs out of something, remove it before the next customer reads the board and orders it. For cafes and takeaway spots, a clear, well-lit digital menu board above the till lets customers decide while they wait — orders are faster, the queue moves, lunchtime service runs smoother.
Daily specials displays
Today's specials, visible to every table, updated when the kitchen says so
Place a specials screen where the dining room can see it — on a wall between the bar and the tables, at the entrance, or on a screen visible from the pass. When the chef finishes prep and decides on today's dishes, they update the board from the kitchen. When the fish sells out at 1:30pm, the front-of-house manager removes it from her phone before the next table sits down. Servers stop reciting the specials list to every table.
Event night promotions
Fill your quiet nights by making sure people actually know about them
NowBoard lets you promote upcoming events on every screen in your restaurant — a rotating slide showing this Friday's live acoustic set, next week's Italian wine evening, or the Christmas party booking dates. Customers see it while they eat. Passers-by see it through the window if you have a street-facing screen. You can schedule event promotions in advance so each one appears on the right dates and disappears when the event has passed. Learn more about event signage.
Opening hours & information screens
The answer to "Are you open on Monday?" before anyone has to ask
A NowBoard information screen in the window or near the entrance shows your current opening hours, contact details, booking information, and any temporary notices. Update it once, from your phone, and the screen shows the right information until you change it again.
Window displays for passing trade
Turn your front window into a reason for people to walk through the door
A screen in the window showing tomorrow's lunch menu, this week's specials, and Friday's live music event works for you 24 hours a day — including when you are closed. For restaurants on busy streets, this is the digital equivalent of a great-looking A-board — but one that changes automatically, never blows over in the wind, and does not need someone to carry it outside every morning.
Staff information boards
Keep your team in the loop without a noticeboard in the kitchen corridor
NowBoard gives you a staff-facing screen in the kitchen, break room, or office for shift rotas, weekly targets, allergen updates, delivery schedules, and management notices. When the rota changes, update the screen. When a large party booking is confirmed for Saturday, make sure every member of staff knows before they arrive for their shift.
Why NowBoard
Why restaurants choose NowBoard over chalkboards and printed menus
Works on screens you already have
Plug a NowBoard Player into the HDMI port of any existing TV and it becomes a digital menu board. The player costs from £139 — less than two months of chalkboard supplies and printed menus.
Anyone on your team can use it
The owner, the head chef, the front-of-house manager, the weekend supervisor. If they can send a text message, they can update a NowBoard screen. No training courses. No design degree.
Updates happen between services, not between print runs
The chef decides on specials during morning prep and updates the screen before the doors open. A dish sells out and the manager removes it mid-service from her phone. The gap between reality and what the customer sees shrinks to seconds.
Multi-site management for restaurant groups
Running 3, 8, or 30 locations? Manage every screen from a single dashboard. Set group-wide branding and menu templates centrally. Roll out to a new site in minutes.
Works offline
Restaurant wifi is not always reliable during a packed Friday night. If the connection drops, NowBoard screens keep showing the last update. Customers never see a blank screen where the menu should be.
From £10/Location/month
No setup fees. No annual contracts. See pricing. A three-screen restaurant setup costs less per month than a round of drinks at the bar.
FAQ
Common questions about restaurant digital signage
Do I need to buy new screens?
No. NowBoard works on any TV with an HDMI port. Use the TV already in your restaurant, bar, or window. The only hardware you need is a NowBoard Player (from £139).
Can I update the specials during service?
Yes. Open NowBoard on your phone, change a dish, remove a sold-out item, or adjust a price. The screen updates within seconds. No reprinting, no rubbing out chalk.
Can I schedule content to change automatically?
Yes. Set your lunch menu to display from 11:30am and your dinner menu to appear at 5pm. Schedule event promotions to show on the right days and disappear when the event has passed. You set it up once and it runs on its own.
Does it work for cafes and takeaway spots too?
Yes. NowBoard works for any food and drink business — cafes, bistros, pubs, wine bars, takeaways, food halls. If you have a screen and information to display, NowBoard handles it.
Is there a minimum contract?
No. NowBoard is month-to-month from £10 per Location. Add Locations when you need them, remove them when you do not. No setup fees, no annual lock-in.
Ready to retire the chalkboard?
Your customers deserve clear, current menus and specials — not a smudged board they cannot read from across the room. Your staff deserve to stop reciting the specials list fifty times a day.
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