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Digital tablet menus for restaurants

A menu on a tablet at every table, with photos, allergens and today’s specials, updated from one screen the moment the kitchen runs out of something.

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Four friends at a restaurant table by a window, looking at a tablet menu together. In front of them, the menu they see: a restaurant called Juniper, its dinner dishes with photos, allergen marks and prices, and the short rib marked sold out tonight. Beside it, a note that 14 tablets were updated, and that the drinks menu switches on at 10 pm.

Our approach

A printed menu is out of date the day it comes back from the printer. Prices change, a dish sells out at eight o’clock, and the special lives on a chalkboard half the room cannot read. A tablet menu shows guests what the kitchen can actually make tonight.

We design the menu around your food and your room: large photos, short descriptions, allergen and dietary marks, and wine or beer pairings where you want them. Your staff change it from one screen, a phone included, and every tablet in the room updates within seconds.

Sold out in the kitchen, sold out at the table

Staff change the menu from a phone. Every tablet in the room shows it within seconds, with nothing to reprint and no server walking table to table.

What is included

  1. Menu design

    Sections, dishes and photos laid out for a tablet held at the table, in your restaurant’s look rather than a template’s.

  2. One place to edit

    Prices, descriptions, specials and sold-out dishes changed from one admin screen and shown on every tablet at once.

  3. Allergens and dietary marks

    Gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and allergen information on every dish, with a filter guests can tap.

  4. Menus by time of day

    Lunch, dinner, brunch and happy hour menus that switch on their own at the times you set.

  5. Tablets that stay put

    Locked to the menu app, with the menu kept on the device so it still opens if the Wi-Fi drops.

  6. Ordering when you want it

    Call-server and ordering features added later, connected to your point-of-sale where it offers an integration.

Your restaurant’s look, at every hour

Three sample designs for three kinds of room. Each follows its restaurant’s look; the screen staff edit from is the same.

From above, two hands hold a tablet over a breakfast table. The tablet shows a café’s breakfast menu with photos of eggs Benedict, avocado toast and a Belgian waffle, and the same dishes sit on the table around it.
From above, two hands hold a tablet over a breakfast table. The tablet shows a café’s breakfast menu with photos of eggs Benedict, avocado toast and a Belgian waffle, and the same dishes sit on the table around it.

Breakfast · 8:45 am

A café that sells on the photo

Navy and cream, a serif for the dish names, and the plate on the screen is the plate that arrives.

A smiling guest taps a tablet on a stand at a sunny window table. The tablet shows a bistro’s lunch menu of bowls with photos and prices, and one dish has a quantity stepper set to 1.

Lunch · 12:30 pm

A bistro in its own colours

Forest green and cream for a room with a view of the snow. Same editing screen, different restaurant.

A couple at a candlelit table; one points at a tablet showing a dinner menu of small plates, with photos of whipped ricotta, crispy Brussels sprouts and burrata.

Dinner · 7:30 pm

Small plates after dark

A darker frame for a candlelit room, with the dinner sections in the order the kitchen sends them.

Sample designs on staged photos, not client restaurants.

Each menu on its own clock

Brunch, happy hour, dinner and late drinks switch on at the times you set.

How the work runs

Built with React, TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL.

  1. Scope

    Your menu, your room and your tablets, and what the first release must do on a busy night.

  2. Design

    The menu designed with your dishes and photos, tested on a tablet at a real table.

  3. Build and set up

    The menu app and admin built, tablets set up and locked to the menu, staff shown how to edit it.

  4. Launch and look after

    A soft launch on a quiet night, then updates and new features as the restaurant needs them.

Who it is for

  • Restaurants whose menu changes often enough that reprinting is a chore.
  • Wine bars, breweries and tasting rooms with long lists that are hard to fit on paper.
  • Owners who want guests to see photos and allergen details without asking a server.

Questions

Which tablets does it run on?

iPad and Android tablets. We can recommend models and cases, or set up the tablets you already own.

What happens if the Wi-Fi goes down?

The menu is kept on each tablet, so guests can still browse it. Changes made in the admin reach the tablets when the connection comes back.

Can guests order from the tablet?

The first release is usually the menu itself. Ordering can be added after, connected to your point-of-sale when it offers an integration, so orders do not have to be typed in twice.

Who updates the menu?

Your staff, from one admin screen on any phone or computer. Marking a dish sold out takes one tap.

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