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Restaurant Digital Signage – Transforming Dining Ambiance April 28, 2024
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Amazon's recent OS changes have left thousands of restaurant Fire Stick deployments unstable mid-service.
The Display NOW Edge Player is built for 24/7 commercial use, and it's included free in the Business Edge plan ($180/year, less than 50¢ a day).
Display NOW founder & CEO Chris Dukich didn't set out to build a digital signage company. He set out to solve his own problem.
“I created Display NOW because I had a basic need for signage to communicate announcements to residents in a condo building. I didn’t want to pay the ridiculous prices that other providers charge. I tried to go the ‘free’ route, but I ended up coming home to blank screens and putting in hours each month just keeping them alive.
Business owners and managers face rising costs every year, and ‘free’ looks attractive when you’re trying to keep things lean. But our competitors use ‘free’ plans as glorified trials. Limited screens, watermarked content, missing features, all designed to push you to upgrade. Free often costs more than paying a reasonable price when you add up the downtime, the support tickets, and the hours you spend keeping it running.
We built Display NOW with the goal of being the number one best value on the market. We have a free plan for people who genuinely need a basic solution, with real features, not a trial. And for everyone else, we built the Edge Player so you never have to worry about hardware again.”
Founder & CEO, Display NOW
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same-store sales lift
Reported by McDonald’s after digital menu board rollout (Q2 2019). Forrester found 196% ROI and payback in 11 months for QSR deployments.
(Forrester TEI Study, 2019)
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recall rate
Customers who saw a digital sign could recall the specific message; nearly double the rate of static signage.
(Arbitron Digital Video Display Study, 2010)
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annual savings per location
From eliminating menu printing, shipping, and deployment labor for static menu updates.
(Forrester / WAND Digital ROI analysis)
Most restaurant owners are stuck reprinting menus, missing promo windows, and managing locations manually. Digital signage for restaurants fixes all three.
Update a price or pull a sold-out dish, and you're back to the print shop. Restaurant menu boards that rely on print are slow and expensive, and in a restaurant, something always changes.
When your restaurant display boards are static, last-minute offers go unnoticed or show up inconsistently. By the time the printed insert is ready, the special is nearly over.
Without a centralized system, each location runs its own materials on its own timeline. Every campaign rollout becomes a back-and-forth logistics exercise.
Display NOW is restaurant digital signage software that connects all your in-store screens, from your dining room, drive-thru, to back-of-house, to a single cloud-based platform. One update reaches every digital display for restaurants, instantly.
Instant menu updates across every screen Change a price, swap a menu item, or push a daily special from your phone in seconds. Your restaurant digital menu boards update instantly. No reprints. No delays.
Scheduled daypart menus and timed promotions Set breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus to switch automatically. Schedule limited-time offers to go live and expire automatically. Your digital menu boards for restaurants run on your schedule without anyone touching a screen.
Centralized management across every location One site or fifty — push the same update everywhere at once, or customize by location. Either way, it takes seconds.
Done-for-you content with Your Daily Loop Most operators don’t have time to make signage content. Your Daily Loop delivers fresh, curated content to your restaurant digital signage displays daily — no production work required.
From fast casual to full service, here's how restaurant teams put it to work every day.
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Your Daily Loop. Done‑for‑you content, refreshed daily.
Most diners don't notice your specials. They're scrolling their phones while they wait for food. Your Daily Loop gives them a reason to look up. Fresh trivia, behind-the-scenes content, seasonal moments, all served daily, no work required from your team.
No production calendar. No design work. No extra hires. Your team picks a loop, and fresh content runs itself.
$8 per screen per month add‑on. Included with select plans
Hundreds of professionally designed digital menu board templates for restaurants. Customise with your logo, menu items, and colours, then push live without waiting on a designer.
Menus and Daily Specials
Happy Hour and Promotions
Seasonal and Events
QSR and Fast Casual
Café and Bakery
Already designing in Canva? You can easily save media right to Display NOW with our integration.
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Plug the Display Now player or your existing Amazon Fire TV or Google TV device into any TV with an HDMI port. You're connected in under two minutes.
Pick from restaurant-specific digital menu board templates, add your items, prices, and branding, then publish. No designer needed.
Changes go live instantly across every assigned screen. Make an update mid-service from your phone in seconds.
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Raspberry Pi included on annual plan
$90 streaming stick sold separately
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~$186 ($96 software + $90 Pi est.)
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Raspberry Pi — hobbyist board, not built for commercial signage
Consumer-grade streaming stick
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Premium ($11+)
Pro Plus plan, $15+
Pro plan, $30
Halftime Pizza needed digital menu boards their team could update fast, without print costs or technical help.
They set up Display Now's restaurant digital signage software in minutes. Menu updates and daily specials now go live instantly from the dashboard.
Update time dropped from hours to minutes. Total setup: under two minutes.
"Just download the app, plug in the code on the screen and you're up and running. It's as easy as it gets. Took a minute or two tops."
Halftime Pizza
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Set restaurant digital menu boards to switch automatically by time of day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner run on schedule without manual changes.
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Control digital signs across every restaurant location from one dashboard. Push one update everywhere or customize by site.
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Update your restaurant digital signage from any device, anywhere. Changes go live on every screen in seconds.
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Screens keep playing even if the internet drops. No blank menu boards, no interruptions during service.
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A growing library of digital menu board templates for restaurants, fully customizable and publish-ready.
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Build professional restaurant digital signs in minutes using built-in AI design tools. No creative experience required.
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Works with Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and the Display NOW Edge Player, purpose-built for 24/7 commercial use.
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We can remote into your Edge Player to diagnose and fix issues without rolling a truck. Unlike most competitors, no on-site visit required.
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Monitor what's running on each display, track screen activity, and keep every location consistent from your dashboard.
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Display Now is restaurant digital signage software built for speed and simplicity. No IT team, no design experience, no long-term contract. Update your digital menu boards from anywhere, manage every screen across every location, and never pay for a reprint again.
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Digital signage software is a cloud-based system that lets businesses control what appears on their screens, like images, videos, live data feeds, and more, from a single online dashboard. With a digital signage solution like DisplayNow, you log in, build or upload your content, and push it to any connected display in seconds. There's no server to manage, no technical setup, and no need for IT support to keep it running.
Most customers have their first digital signage display live in under 10 minutes. Plug your player into any TV, connect it to WiFi, and log into your DisplayNow dashboard. Your content starts playing straight away. There's no installation process, no technical configuration, and no waiting for an IT team.
Any TV or monitor with an HDMI port works as a digital signage display. DisplayNow's digital signage software runs on Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and most existing streaming devices. If you'd prefer purpose-built hardware, DisplayNow also offers plug-and-play bundles with a commercial-grade digital signage media player included.
Yes. Any TV with an HDMI port becomes a fully managed digital signage display the moment you plug in the DisplayNow player. You don't need specialist screens or commercial monitors to get started. Your existing TVs are already compatible with our digital signage system.
Yes. Get 14 days of full access to the entire digital signage platform, no credit card required. Test it with real screens and real content so you know exactly what you're getting before committing. Need more time? We almost always extend the trial on request. Just reach out.
Yes. Display NOW lets you manage unlimited digital signage screens from a single dashboard, regardless of their location. Group your displays by site, department, or content type, and push different content to different screens simultaneously, all from one cloud-based digital signage CMS without switching between accounts or tools.
Yes, set digital signage content to run by time of day, day of week, or a custom date range. A restaurant can automatically switch from a breakfast to a dinner menu without touching a screen. A retailer can schedule a weekend promotion to start Friday night and stop Monday morning, all set in advance inside the platform.
Display NOW supports images, videos, slideshows, live weather, news feeds, social media walls, Google Slides, Canva designs, YouTube, Vimeo, web pages, and more. If you can view it on a screen, there's a good chance our digital signage software can display it.
No. Display NOW includes an AI-powered design tool and a library of ready-made digital signage templates built for specific industries. If you already use Canva, we have a full Canva integration that makes saving designs to Display NOW as easy as a few clicks. Your team can have professional-looking content ready in minutes — no design experience, no agency, no extra budget required.
Your screens keep playing. DisplayNow caches images, videos, and PDFs locally on the device, so if your internet connection drops, that content types continue running without interruption. Live web content, social feeds, and other internet-dependent sources will pause until connectivity is restored, as they require an active connection by nature. Once you're back online, your digital signage displays sync automatically with any new content or schedule changes with no manual action needed.
