A nice menu within a restaurant for customers

Most Affordable Digital Signage Solutions

Most Affordable Digital Signage Online Solutions that Matches Your Requirement In Just 5 minutes With NO Technical Knowlwdge!

Access to a wide spectrum of templates, free registration, free downloads,and easy tools add to the finesse in creating menu boards.

Whether you offer fine dining, full service snack & meals, or quick service fast food, you have to find a way to entice your target customers. Every template is customizable – adorned with a unique design and creativity as with images, fonts,colors and graphics. So, get cracking !

Easy and simple menu integration with the digital signage systems

Digital signage technology has progressed remarkably in the last decade and the restaurant industry worldwide and particularly in the US have seen an impassioned adaptation of them. This has been the lifeline for most Quick Service Restaurants and the Fast food restaurants who have point of sale locations, and also for chain stores who have restaurants spread all across the US.

For those of you restaurateurs who have yet to deploy digital signage systems in their business the need for it should be quite obvious to you by now.
Digital signage systems have become very affordable today. When it was first adapted by restaurants more than a decade back the average cost was around $4000, plus maintenance expenses. Today, it costs only $1500 on an average (with zero maintenance ) which includes a top-quality Digital Screen and a Media Player.

But even these are optional. That’s the best part for you !

We elucidate below a few interesting pointers on the Cost-effectiveness of the digital signage systems.

Economical Designing Of Your Menu Board Online

  • Even before deploying digital signage systems you need to have your menu board ready. Today, in this digitally and computer fuelled socio-economic milieu, you no longer have to depend on offline agencies such as an advertising agency to create your menu board.
  • Reputed online sites such as DS Menu and Sign Menu offer thousands of templates at a nominal yearly subscription.
  • You get the benefits of  designing your own menu board in JUST FIVE MINUTES with the myriad tools of graphics, images, fonts, colors and content at your disposal.
  • You don’t need to be tech-savvy to create designs of your choice. We can guide you step by step.
  • These marvelous templates are integrated with cloud-based facilities which can be placed on any digital screen.
  • We have menu board templates across all genre of restaurants: from Fast food and Quick Service to Full-service and Fine-dining. Also includes ethnic cuisine such as Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, you name it !

Digital Signage Options For Your Menu Boards

( 60% to 100% increase of business in the first 4 months)

With intense competition bearing down at your backyard and the pressures that you deal with everyday in running your business it is the digital screen display of your menu board that will be the light at the end of this tunnel. Almost literally !

With the advent of affordable Digital screens (Range $400-$600 and more if budget permits) are of high quality like the HD LED Screens, UHD Cathode Rays, Flat-Panel displays of different sizes. These LED screens are of various high intensity Pixel (Density 1920 x 1080) resolutions. Some of the best brands are LG, Samsung, US-LED. With these buys the visual appeal of your menu board will be unmatched !

The price of an average Media Player costs between $150-$200, and there are several brands available with Amazon. If you have the budget you may even go in for a $1000 buy. Please bear in mind that the Media Player is a one-time investment.

Here are some suggestions for your digital signage deployments :-

  • A Tv Screen And Pendrive/Memory stick is all a small and medium size business needs for digital display. Minimum cost. The Tv needs to have internet connection. All you have to do is connect the pendrive with the menu inputs and these will be displayed on Tv .
  • A Digital Screen And A Media Player can be used if you have a budget . as per latest estimates in the US, it costs only $1500 at an average to set up a digital signage system at point of sale locations. The Media Player will enhance the resolutions and visual appeal of the menu board on screen.
  • Only A Computer And a Digital Screen can suffice if the business can do without the Media player. Here too, the visual impact will be as good on the digital screen and the URLs stored in the computer will light up the digital screen. And just in case the internet connection is disrupted the computer can operate the screen without interruption.
Set Up a Restaurant Menu Board Online That Matches Your Requirement In Just 5 minutes With NO Technical Knowlwdge!
Set Up a Restaurant Menu Board Online That Matches Your Requirement In Just 5 minutes With NO Technical Knowledge!

Benefits Of Cloud-Based Digital Signage Deployments

  • Multi-store menu board locations can be controlled and monitored by a single admin : You can edit/update your menu boards concurrently at all your stores anytime just by a click of a button.
  • Enables updating you menu even if you are not on the site and thousands of miles away : Your laptop computer will do all for you. You can also be in touch with your staff, inventory, customers and more.
  • Facilitates real-time menu updating quickly. No need for tedious manual chalk board writings and dusters . With a click of a button your breakfast menu will change to a lunch menu at 1pm with the entire fresh spread on display.
  • Best for promoting up-sells ; If you want your customers to have burger combos at 4pm instead of hotdogs as your hotdogs are running out, all you need to do is announce the same on the display screen with an offer or a discount.
  • Branding of innovative food items : Specially for occasions such as Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving, Halloween and several others. The digital screen will do all for you in showcasing your special sea food delicacies (example).
  • Exhibit Entertaining Videos and Playlists : With a nominal yearly subscription you can download templates of videos and playlists from our sites in Sign Menu and DS Menu. Great way to promote your business.
  • Effective Customer connects : Your digital screen menu board can be showcased on facebook, instagram, and other social media sites which will enable you to increase your customer data-base with demographic profiles.
  • You can create Apps for the Smart phone including Beacon technology : These days restaurants are promoting their business effectively on mobile Apps and tie-ups with delivery companies like Uber Eats, Swiggy and Zomato.

When you ponder on the above benefits a one-time investment of only $1500 for your signage systems becomes insignificant. Digital signage is here to stay. We can see signage all around us. And despite being ubiquitous it’s novelty refuses to diminish. Virtually all big names like McDonald’s, KFC, Subway, Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut and many others have increased their revenues manifold by conveying their menu spread effectively through the digital screens.

Medicinal Marijuana – A Fresh Elixir

 

We, at DSMenu have always prided on the fact that we have consistently delivered the best of creative menu board templates to the restaurant fraternity. Among our impressive repertoire of work are the Medicinal Marijuana menu boards which have facilitated sales of this therapeutic drug (derived from the Cannabis plant) to thousands of patients worldwide.
Best Medicinal Marijuana menu design app for your business grow

Trends And Statistics

  • Legal cannabis clocked sales of $10 billion worldwide in 2018 alone.
  • 33 states in the US use medicinal marijuana for various types of ailments.
  • Approx 9400 active licenses for the marijuana business have been issued so far.
  • In 2017, the cannabis market went up by 37% worldwide. Indicates its effectiveness.
  • US accounts for 90% of the marijuana market worldwide. Legalisation has its merits.
  • 55 million Americans are medicinal marijuana users, out of which 60% are men.
  • Among all users in US, 18% comprise of cannabis smokers aged between 18-29.
  • Average price of an ounce of marijuana is $320 of good quality. $25 for 1/8th quantity.
  • Average start-up cost of a marijuana dispensary is $7,75,000. Very high indeed !
  • Average start-up cost for unregulated small sized dispensar is $1,00,000.
  • The average customer spends between $25-$50 per trip to a marijuana dispensary.
  • Small and medium retailers doing well in California, Washington, Nevada and Colorado.

Source : fitsmallbusiness.com

Yes ! Be a winner ! A successful medicinal marijuana business requires good business acumen in the domains of investment, procurement, presentation and delivery. DS Menu, with it’s fabulous menu creations, facilitates your business objectives effectively.

Marijuana Menu Boards Vs Other Menu Boards

  • First and foremost, we need to know that medicinal marijuana is not a cuisine. It’s menu board is a presentation of one or multiple varieties of the marijuana extract which can be consumed/ingested in several ways including that of eating (edibles).
  • Medicinal marijuana are sold from a dispensary or a pharmacist’s shop (retailer) and not a restaurant. It is essentially take-away. All other food cusines are available in a restaurant where there are sit-in facilities for customers as well as take-away options.
  • Medicinal Marijuana products are exclusively meant for medicinal purposes , where as other menus such as those of Burgers, Pizzas, Sandwiches, Chinese, Mexican , Italian, Bakery, Wines, Brunch, Juice bars and all others are primarily for satiating hunger, taste or pleasure. Hence, the marketing content of QSR menu boards will be different.
  • Follows from above, the target audience or the potential customers for the marijuana menu board are essentially patients coping with a major ailment, whereas the target customer for any other cuisine can be anybody with the capability to purchase.
  • QSR menus such as that of a burger, pizza, or a tacos can have add-ons and sides like french fries, veggies or a beverage. Discounts, freebies and food offers are aplenty. But the marijuana menu is strictly medicine, with different methods of usage and dosage features. Some discounts are offered occasionally. Generally the menu seems dull and mundane, but they save lives nonetheless !
  • Medicinal marijuana, in all forms, is far more expensive than all other food items which we call cuisine. But they are definitely more durable. For instance, the average price of good quality marijuana will cost $320,( even a 1/8th dosage of it costs $40 ), and will have a dosage stretching several weeks, whereas, most other cuisine ie burgers, pizzas, sandwiches, steaks, brunch items, and ethnic cuisines cost far less but are consumed immediately.
  • The Marijuana business is essentially a sellers market and the restaurant business is basically a buyer’s market. These equations are bourne out of the demand-supply function. Procurement of good quality cannabis is vital. Hence, prices are higher which makes the profitabilty of a marijuana dispensary far greater than most QSR’s on the average.

DS Menu’s Medicinal Marijuana Menu Boards

Some Distinctive Attributes For Digital Menu Boards

  • Basic Objective : DS Menu endeavors to entice customers rather than hard-sell, since the customer is a medical patient. Further, a customer seeking a particular variant of the drug, or it’s method of usage, is most often specified (and prescribed) by a medical practitioner. A dispensary or a retailer can at best enumerate the benefits of the drug.
  • Projects Reliability and Trust : This is imperative. Since the menu items are meant for therapeutic purpose, each item is procured by the retailer with the utmost care and hence needs to be projected as reliable and of certified quality. And DS Menu ensures this projection with its creativity.  Customers who have benefitted from these drugs come back to the retailer and become it’s loyal customers. Satisfied customers recommend the dispensary or the retailer to others too.
  • Delineats the Methods of Consumption : DS Menu designs take special care of the headers. Whether it is the Edibles ( based on which we identify a menu board) or the several other ways in which medicinal marijuana can be consumed / ingested ie, Smoking,Vaporizing, Beverages, Trans dermal Patches, Sprays, Topical and Raw fresh marijuana, DS Menu has showcased all of these with exquisite clarity supprted by graphics and images on the digital menu boards, as also with quantity and price specifications.
  • Visual appeal ; The target customer for marijuana products can be from all walks of life. Keeping this in mind DS Menu’s creativity is designed to have maximum impact on the target audience . It is intended to entice a potential customer or endorse loyalty from a regular customer. After all, a visually appealing menu board does have its advantages.
  • Marketing Content : DS menu keeps the marketing message simple. The marketing message, if any, is primarily centred around a health benefit, which has been tried and tested. The retailer is all too aware of the importance of his products and hence the quality of the products and his vendors are beyond scrutiny. This is quite in contrast with a burger menu where health benefits are virtually nil and yet the playlists are so appetizing !
  • Creative Strategy for competition: DS Menu’s menu board designs are for all categories of dispensaries,small, medim and large. Hence, there are variations and contrasts. While there may be many dispensaries and retailers in a city competition may exist but not in the same intensity as a quick service Pizza or a Burger restaurant. In most cases, a patient seeking a marijuana product will probably know the availability trends, the quality and prices of several shops in his city/town.
  • Design and Creativity : Truly unique. Given digital signage technology, the digital menu boards have the desired impact for Marijuana menus as well. The bright and bold glittering content does evoke a sense of well being and positivity.

The special attributes with DS Menu’s templates include colors, typefaces, icons, graphics, images and content which are designed with much thought and precision, given the number of headers in a menu . Light colors with bright tyoefaces are as chic and elegant as bright background colors complimented by other multicolors. Likewise, different colors of typefaces, fonts, icons add to the creativity and design. Graphics and images lend sophistication and vibrancy to the ambiance. Please see the Gallery for details.