The Menu Builder: professional TV menus without a designer

9 templates designed for real menus

Every template is purpose-built for a type of venue, so your board looks professional from the first minute:

• Classic — traditional columns for full-menu restaurants
• Modern — bold, contemporary layout for fast-casual concepts
• Photo Grid — image-forward boards that sell with pictures
• QSR — high-contrast quick-service layout built for speed reading
• Fine Dining — elegant, minimal typography for upscale menus
• Cafe — warm layout suited to coffee shops and bakeries
• Bar — tap lists, cocktails, and happy-hour boards
• Deli — dense item lists that stay readable
• Directory Board — lobby and tenant directories for buildings and offices

Every detail your menu needs

Menu items aren't just a name and a price. The builder supports the details that actually sell food:

• Photos and descriptions for every item
• Size variants — small/medium/large (or any sizes you use) each with its own price
• Modifiers and add-ons with individual pricing — extra shot, add bacon, substitute fries
• Calories where you want to display them
• Dietary badges: Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Spicy, NEW, and Popular
• Featured highlighting to draw the eye to high-margin items
• 86'd toggle to hide sold-out items in one tap

You control what the board shows

Display options let you toggle prices, descriptions, calories, and badges on or off per menu — so the same item data can power a detailed board at the counter and a cleaner, simpler board in the window. Long menu? Turn on auto-scroll and the board glides through the full list at a configurable speed, so a 60-item deli menu fits on a single screen.

QR codes that connect the board to the customer's phone

Add a QR code overlay with your own URL and label — online ordering, loyalty signup, your Instagram, a review page — and the board becomes interactive. Customers scan while they wait, which turns dwell time in line into orders and follows.

Menus that change themselves by time of day

Dayparting is built into the Menu Builder: schedule a menu to display during breakfast, lunch, dinner, or late night, and your screens rotate automatically. Combined with playlist scheduling, one screen can run your whole day — breakfast board in the morning, lunch board with a promo video at noon, and a bar board at night.

From draft to screen in minutes

Menus you build are saved as content in your library, so you can edit them any time — the structured item data is preserved for future changes, not flattened into an image. When you're happy, assign the menu to a screen (or a playlist across many screens) and it displays at full 1080p. Edits republish automatically.

Why not just design a menu in PowerPoint or Canva?

Plenty of restaurants start by exporting a slide or a graphic and looping it on a TV. It works — until the first price change. Then someone has to find the original file, remember which fonts were used, re-export, and get the new image onto the screen. Multiply that by every change, every screen, and every location.

The Menu Builder keeps your menu as data, not pixels. Items, prices, sizes, and badges live as structured entries you edit in a form — the template re-renders the board perfectly every time. That's also what makes the operational features possible: an image can't hide a sold-out item at the tap of a toggle, switch itself to the dinner menu at 5 p.m., or auto-scroll a list that outgrew the screen. A menu built from data can.

Build once, display everywhere

A menu you build isn't tied to one TV. Assign the same board to every screen in the store, drop it into a playlist that rotates it with promo videos, or roll it out across every location in a group with multi-location management. When the recipe changes, you edit the one menu and every screen showing it updates together — that's the difference between managing a menu and managing a pile of image files.

Small details that move sales

• Feature strategically. Use featured highlighting on one or two high-margin items per section — highlight everything and you highlight nothing.
• Badge with intent. The NEW badge earns trials for menu additions; Popular reassures first-time customers making a fast decision.
• Price sizes clearly. Size variants with individual prices remove the "how much is the large?" question that slows the line.
• Sell the add-on, not just the item. Modifiers with visible pricing prompt the extra shot, the added protein, the upgraded side.
• Rotate the board by daypart. A breakfast crowd shouldn't be reading your dinner list — dayparting keeps the board relevant to whoever is standing in front of it.