Digital Menu Design Company

Digital Menu Design Company

Digital Menu Design Company

The new millennium has thrown open several opportunities online. The advent of several software developments coincided with the progress of digital signage technology. And the development of online menu board design was one of the major concomitant of it.

One of the pioneering online companies in online menu board designing was DS Menu. Initiated in 2012, we are a well-established online company in the domain of menu board designing and it’s integration with digital signage technology. Today, we ride on an impressive reputation for delivering the best menu board templates by leveraging on our strengths and empowering the restaurateur to design/conceive of his own menu board on our website.

Our core-competence lies in the exclusive synergies of technology and creativity, which have, over the years, enabled many restaurants worldwide to achieve illustrious heights in menu board display. And these in-turn have significantly contributed in enhancing their restaurant sales & profitability.

The Essence of DS Menu

Around the year 2012, most in the restaurant fraternity were reliant on offline agencies for designing their menu boards. And these were eating into their time and money. Hence, with a view to making things easier and simpler for the restaurateur, we were the first to conceptualize the designing of digital menu boards in the online space, and offered the restaurateur a powerful tool in devising his own menu board in quick-time with slender spends. This is why DS Menu is unique in offering online menu board services.

DS Menu
Custom Digital Menu Boards for Restaurant, Cafe, QSR & Fast Food

With a very affordable yearly subscription you receive the following benefits

  • You may select menu boards of your choice, and download from our vast database of menu board templates.
  • A huge gallery consisting of menu templates ranging from the quick service snacks of pizzas and burgers to ethnic cuisines, bakery and wines, we have a wide spectrum of menu board choices on offer.
  • Enables you to make your own menu board on our website by the easy-to-use method and download the same. And we can assist you on this, if necessary.
  • We enable you unlimited access to our graphics, colors, fonts, designs in Landscape and Portraits and vertical menu board creativity.
  • We offer creation of Videos and Playlists on your food menu : we welcome sharing of ideas and concepts and translating them into concrete video and playlists for best visual and marketing impact.
  • We offer functional advantages on your Chain-store solutions / multi-location menu boards : you can update your menu boards by a single admin.
  • We offer operational advantages of the Cloud-based program for your restaurant menu board : even if you are many miles away from your restaurant you can easily update/edit your menus with your laptops.

Sign Menu – A Novelty For Menu / Signage Designs

Sign Menu
Digital menu boards with video for restaurant, salon, hotel and gym with Video.

Special Features Include :-

  • Exquisite Signage Designs for Gymnasiums, Car garages, Salons, Hotels and Restaurants : A wide spectrum of exclusively designed signage  for your businesses. Best for Point-of-sale locations and suitable placements on your site.
  • Step-by-step guidance and Tutorial to guide you on your designing the signage boards. You will have all access to colors, fonts, sizes. You need not be tech-savvy either.
  • New and innovate content to entice your target audience : We offer relevant content for your business, be it a classy Salon, the ruddy-knuckled Gymnasium, the engineering wiz crafts of Car Garages or the trend-setting hotels.
  • Beautiful graphics to exhibit class and sophistication : Our designs are created to get you customers. We want to see you succeed, to increase your sales and have a healthy bottom line. Our well-crafted designs will give you a visual leverage on which enable you can encourage premium pricing.
  • Best Integration With Your Signage Hardware : Regardless of your hardware choices, our designs will effect the best display on screen. Hence, be it a Tv screen, or a digital one, or even a memory stick, our creativity will come through to enthrall your customers.
  • We are proactive with all our valued clients ; We offer the best advice on signage menu / boards and screens, always. If you need to download multiple templates or want us to update/edit a template to suit your needs. We are always at your service.
  • Keep you updated on the latest design trends ;As and when fresh ideas come along in menu board designing, you will be first to know. Even in current operations of your business we will interact and offer solutions or updating to your menu boards/signage screens.

The Value Of Our Designs ( DS menu And Sign Menu )

  • For us, you come first. As you are a valued restaurateur, we want you to display the best possible menu board for maximum audience impact, with optimum sales potential and profitability.
  • If your restaurant makes money, we are happy. Hence, we do not compromise on the quality of our templates. And we eagerly share these with our trade partners and affiliates.
  • Our vibrant team of graphic designers are consistently updated on the menu board dynamics prevalent worldwide. And yes, we also advocate the powerful integration of our templates with digital signage technology. Which is why we can offer the best there is.
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.

Easy Online QSR Menu Design App for Free

Digital Menu Boards Software

Now that we are all overwhelmed by this digital age, can menu board apps be far behind ? Recent studies have revealed the following :-

  • A good 30% sales have increased in QSR’s and take-aways as online ordering gains momentum.
  •  In-store perceived waiting time for customers have come down by 25%.
  • Advertising costs have come down by a whopping 70% as apps are integrated effectively with mobile phones and social media sites.

Benefits Of The DS Menu App

  • Offers you unlimited choice of fonts, colors,icons, graphics and content.
  • Offers you access to a wide spectrum of menu board templates from the gallery.
  • The User Guide demonstrates how to insert menu items from the template to your menu board.
  • Enables you to create playlists and videos on your menu items.
  • We offer a free customized menu board with unlimited updates for you.
  • We provide 24×7 assistance by way of online chats.

Easy Online QSR Menu Design App for Free. No more software download or desktop instillation. Design a menu at home with NO technical knowledge with a secure cloud based design tool.

Now that we are all immersed in the digital age, can menu board apps be far behind?

Digital menu board for coffee shop

Other Effective And Impactful Uses Of DS Menu App

First though,let’s define Apps. Technically, apps are essentially applications for browsing on the Smart phone. Thus, apps are a platform which facilitates communications : could be between a buyer and a seller (commercial), or can even be non-commercial . An App is a software which enables integration with smart phones with any business entity. In a word DSMenu offers you a platform to create digital display boards in only 5 minutes with no technical knowledge for your business using cloud-based custom templates and playlists feature.

Some important uses of the DS Menu apps :-

  • It is today the most effective and personalized way of reaching and engaging customers since more and more people are using the smart phone today.
  • It is the best way to advertise a fresh menu or food incentives, discounts and privileges for the restaurant. And keep the customer updated on all it’s promotional activities.
  • The menu board created by you on DS Menu website will facilitate the best and cost-effective advertising of your menu.
  • At Point-of-sale locations the glittering digital menu boards convey the menu and marketing message the best.
  • Enhances the brand image of the restaurant and hence it’s popularity. You get more loyal customers.
  • A chic and trendy visually appealing menu board is liked by all. Add to it elegance and sophistication and you can get new customers quickly.
  • Enables potential customers, who wish to visit your restaurant, plan in advance and co-ordinate : budgets, family, friends, transport.
  • Customer engagement through the menu board will enable you learn about your customers better:  their feedback, tastes and preferences which can help you innovate on your menu for more profitability.

The Essential Pointers That a Restaurant App Must Contain

  • Working hours: Weekdays and weekends, Happy hours for drinks, if any. Last order timings.
  • Location and exact address of the restaurant with a landmark. Showing it on a map.
  • Both, for sit-in offers as well as take- aways. Latest menu for the day. For best menu board designs log on to www.dsmenu.com
  • Possibility of booking: Number of persons, arrival timings, table setting & placement.
  • Mobile Online ordering:  Menu offers for the day, time needed for delivery, payment systems.
  • Connections with social networks ( Facebook, Twitter, Google +…)
  • Photo or video gallery: on their speciality menus, testimonials, cooking demos.For best designed menu board templates with Playlists log on to www.dsmenu.com
  • Options for voting for an innovative item, meal, drink. Feedback.
  • Connections with POS system, with digital menu boards, realtime menu & up-sells.
  • Online payment modalities and systems. Incentives for higher purchase.

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