Digital Signage Menu Boards Give An Edge To Food Outlets.

In an overcrowded fast food industry, outlets are looking for new, exciting and cost effective ways to market their products and digital signage displays are the answer.
Backlit menu boards traditionally used by most independent takeaway and fast food chains are being overshadowed by a new alluring means of displaying menus. Digital signage is now acknowledged as one of the most cost effective and stylish methods of displaying menus in food outlets all over the world. Digital displays, which are available in small and large sizes, offer numerous advantages over traditional static signage. Even when displaying static slides, digital displays attract more attention than traditional signage. This is combined with the facility to automatically show different menu slides at different times, on one screen, saving space and printing costs. Digital signage also has the capability to display movement on menu boards in the form of video files which are significantly more enticing than static images for customers.
Digital menu boards are being implemented by a wide range food outlets, from Burger King to Auntie Annes. Auntie Annes is a growing pretzel store franchise that are currently outfitting all theyre UK stores with 40 Digital Advertising Displays to upgrade from theyre current backlit menu board systems. So far they have found the digital signage solution to be extremely beneficial both in terms of usage and return. Not only have they seen improved sales and overall aesthetics of the locations, they have also been impressed with some of the features the digital displays provide. James MacIsaac, Operations Manager conveyed his delight with the scheduling software, included by AllSee Technologies, which allowed him to choose what he wanted to be displayed at what time of day, and for how long. The standalone units also have a plug and play function, this was requested so as the files can be easily loaded by staff. With the attention of the waiting customers fixed solely on the digital displays, he was able to manage what they were viewing, thus achieve his desired marketing impact.
With the advantages offered by digital signage to food outlets and the ever decreasing costs of LCD displays it is no surprise that more fast food chains, and independent retailers, are converting from backlit to digital menu boards.
In an overcrowded fast food industry, outlets are looking for new, exciting and cost effective ways to market their products and digital signage displays are the answer.
Backlit menu boards traditionally used by most independent takeaway and fast food chains are being overshadowed by a new alluring means of displaying menus. Digital signage is now acknowledged as one of the most cost effective and stylish methods of displaying menus in food outlets all over the world. Digital displays, which are available in small and large sizes, offer numerous advantages over traditional static signage. Even when displaying static slides, digital displays attract more attention than traditional signage. This is combined with the facility to automatically show different menu slides at different times, on one screen, saving space and printing costs. Digital signage also has the capability to display movement on menu boards in the form of video files which are significantly more enticing than static images for customers.
Digital menu boards are being implemented by a wide range food outlets, from Burger King to Auntie Annes. Auntie Annes is a growing pretzel store franchise that are currently outfitting all theyre UK stores with 40 Digital Advertising Displays to upgrade from theyre current backlit menu board systems. So far they have found the digital signage solution to be extremely beneficial both in terms of usage and return. Not only have they seen improved sales and overall aesthetics of the locations, they have also been impressed with some of the features the digital displays provide. James MacIsaac, Operations Manager conveyed his delight with the scheduling software, included by AllSee Technologies, which allowed him to choose what he wanted to be displayed at what time of day, and for how long. The standalone units also have a plug and play function, this was requested so as the files can be easily loaded by staff. With the attention of the waiting customers fixed solely on the digital displays, he was able to manage what they were viewing, thus achieve his desired marketing impact.
With the advantages offered by digital signage to food outlets and the ever decreasing costs of LCD displays it is no surprise that more fast food chains, and independent retailers, are converting from backlit to digital menu boards.

For more information about digital signage please visit www.allsee-tech.com

U.S. Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) Ecosystem Market: Digital Signage, Kiosks, Drive Through Terminals, Point of Sales, Handheld devices, Digital Menu Cards

Albany, New York (PRWEB) August 25, 2014

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research “U.S. Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) Ecosystem Market (Digital Signage, Kiosks, Drive through terminals, Point of Sales, Handheld devices, Digital menu cards) – Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019” the QSR ecosystem market in the U.S. was valued at USD 3,506.9 million in 2012. The market, on the basis of components, is segmented into hardware, software and services, with hardware and software solutions further segmented into various sub-segments. Within hardware components, digital signage was the largest contributor and accounted for 45.6% of the overall hardware segment revenue in 2012. However, kiosk is expected to be the fastest growing segment during the forecast period, growing at a CAGR of 12.3% from 2013 to 2019. This is mainly due to increasing demand for self service options. Within the software segment, billing and management solutions held the largest share in 2012 and is expected to be fastest growing segment owing to increasing demand for customized software tailored to specific needs of the restaurateurs.

Browse the full U.S. Quick Service Restaurant Ecosystem Market report: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/quick-service-restaurant.html.

QSRs are primarily known for their dynamic setting where orders are taken promptly, payment is made and food is handed over to customers in a short time. The payment mechanism is rapidly changing with the growth of restaurants designed on fast service models. Almost all significant digital changes in quick service restaurants are primarily driven by the growing need of clarity, speed, and accuracy in transactions.

Digital signage held the largest share of QSR ecosystem market. While some QSRs adopted for digital signage to keep customers occupied during rush, others use them to display menus. Over the past few years, the points of sale (PoS) devices have become more compact and efficient. With technological advances, new range of battery powered PoS devices offer wireless access to communication network for payment processing. On the other hand, many customers are interested in self service aspect of QSR. Self service kiosks are expected to grow at faster rate compared to POS devices over the forecast period as they improve accuracy, shorten perceived wait time and allow efficient workforce management.

Browse Full Quick Service Restaurant Ecosystem Market Press Release: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/pressrelease/us-quick-service-restaurant-market.htm

The U.S QSR ecosystem market contain numerous players. Major industry participants include Keywest Technology Inc., Nanonation, Inc. NEC Display Solutions Ltd., Cisco System Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Omnivex Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Display Co. Ltd., and REDYREF Inc. among others.

The report studies the U.S. QSR ecosystem market, and provides estimates and forecast in terms of revenue (USD Million) for the period 2012 to 2019. Market estimates are provided on the basis of component types. The market has been segmented as follows:

U.S. QSR Ecosystem Market, by Component

Hardware
Signage systems
Kiosks
Drive through terminals
Point of sales (POS)
Handheld devices
Digital menu cards
Software
Billing solutions and management solutions
Analytics software solutions (bid data analytics)
Services

Get report sample PDF copy from here: http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/sample/sample.php?flag=S&rep_id=2495.







Installing Digital Posters And Digital Menu Boards

When deploying an lcd poster or a digital menu board you have to think about the location very meticulously, making sure that a digital poster or digital menu board does not protrude too much, or else any individual walking past could catch themselves and get hurt.

Both digital poster and a digital menu board are one of the most economical ways to get digital signage in a corporation, these units can vary in thickness from 50 mm to 95 mm relying if the inbuilt media player is network able, these networked media players allows users to update advertisements via the World wide web and stops un-necessary journeys to other sites just to refresh the content.

Now the other matter to look at is how big the display is going to be, if you are using a 40 or 70 flat panel tv this will be positioned flush to the wall as possible and with the size people will view from a distance, the issue arises when you use smaller screens around 17 to 20 because consumers have to get much closer to them to see the content, so one of the best solutions is to use a digital signage mount specially designed and created for the digital marketing industry, this way you can be sure that the monitor is supported with the suitable mount.

It would be no good if you mounted either a digital poster or digital menu board only to find that it ruins the electronic advertising system.

A low profile mount will take displays up to and including 55 with a maximum VESA of 800 x 400, having said that in this orientation (portrait), it will be 400 x 800!

What makes this kind of solution economical is the built in media player, the most affordable is a memory card player, this holds the media on a memory card that is played when plugged into the player, updates are via a Flash port in the media player.

Networked enabled digital poster

Now these units tend to be deeper, this is due to the additional technology that is built into the media players. In the rear of the dynamic advertising monitor are wireless and wired connections, so you can either connect the Electronic poster or the digital menu board to a wired network or connect the player up to a wireless adapter and log in to a wireless network (that you own or have legal access too.)

The campaign can be made in August as the marketing section of the retailer will know what stock they have to sell and this way they can advertise the most lucrative lines. Most coupons no matter if they for activities or just for money are a key line for most outlets as many are never redeemed.

A digital poster is a little tool of the promoter now a days, these allow offers to be set up quickly and when the inventory is gone, they can be removed as quick as they were deployed. The versatility of the advertisement is also a victorious point, as Flash technology can be used in the advertisement, just be adding a Flash converter to the memory card, allowing the outlet to have even more entertaining marketing material than its competitors and resulting in higher revenue streams for the sale items.

The writer is a technical author in the field of digital signage he also owns a company that manufactured LCD enclosures, these LCD monitor enclosures are used for protecting the digital signage hardware.

Restaurant Digital Signage ? Digital Menu Boards

Corn Digital provides restaurant digital signage that transformed static menus to dynamic displays with a variety of contents to attract customers, and allows other advantages such as web-based editable menus, schedulable playlists, scrolling text messages with RSS feeds and many more that provides flexibility for restaurant managements to change menu item, price, and promotions faster and easier.

 

Traditional static menu board before digital signage requires the rotation from one sign to another when needing changes from one daypart to another, and items that are sold out or no longer carried were often still left on the board, covered by tape, or crossed out by marker. However, since the beginning of digital signage, not only have restaurant menu boards been transformed from static to dynamic displays with a variety of contents to attract customers, but they also have other advantages such as web-based editable menus, schedulable playlists, scrolling text messages with RSS feeds and many more that provides flexibility for restaurant managements to change menu item, price, and promotions faster and easier.

 

One of the fast growing yogurt chain stores has been adopting Corn Digital’s digital signage not only as their menu board but also as their in-store marketing display for promotions and launching product awareness campaigns. With Corn Digital’s Ceres-88 media player and a low cost 42-inch display mounting on the wall behind the counter, the space which they can only place one poster can now display multiple images and videos.

 

Moreover, with the web-based content management platform, they can make changes to the display anytime from anywhere. Jihane Mahani, one store manager states “. . . I wanted to . . . share the great experience Yogurt Blast had working with Corn Digital. We are very happy with our Digital Menu Board and personally extremely satisfied with the wonderful customer service. I would absolutely work again, and again, with Corn Digital. Thank you . . .”

 

Another Japanese ramen franchise in the Los Angeles area is also giving Corn Digital’s digital menu board a try at their newly opened food court location inside a shoppong mall. With three 42” LCD displays mounting on the walls behind the cash registers as digital menu board, and another one at the front entrance as welcome sign and marketing display with promotions, specials, and store events. Customer have been extremely satisfy with Corn Digital’s web-based content management interface which requires no installation, is easy to use, allows one-click remote web updating, and menu editing features. Without hiring any additional staff, the store manager has been able to utilize current staff to update menu items, pricing, and images for these digital menu boards.

 

These are just two examples of Corn Digital’s successful restaurant digital signage deployments. Almost all of our clients who installed digital menu boards are satisfied with their attention-grabbing appeal which leads to increase in overall customer experiences and sales amounts.

For more information Digital Signage please visit http://www.corndigital.com/

ITX Design Announces Several Key Upgrades & Updated Menu of Options for bbPress Bulletin Board Hosting Packages

Miami, FL (PRWEB) August 14, 2013

Late Wednesday afternoon at their Virginia data center, ITX Design CEO and co-founder Doug Davis announced to staff and management that the international hosting provider would be adding several key upgrades to the companies arsenal of digital products and services, including the popular bulletin board platform bbPress. ITX Design is a world renowned hosting provider and domain registrar providing VPS and dedicated hosting to small businesses all over the world.    

This latest addition to their arsenal of services is certain to solidify ITX Design as a real contender in an extremely competitive industry landscape.

bbPress is forum software with a few added perks introduced by the innovators who originally designed WordPress. bbPress is user-friendly forum software that is simple to use, easy to administrate, and lightning fast. But don’t let its simplicity fool you; underneath the glitz, it has some powerhouse features and is one of the top 5 most customizable forum platforms available today.

CEO Doug Davis added, “Our staff is very excited that ITX Design will be now offering bbPress to our clients. It’s a cutting edge bulletin board CMS that really allows the end user to be creative, without being bogged down with technical hurdles or coding challenges. Even the most inexperienced novice just needs a few quick tutorials, and they will be navigate the difficult waters of forum design like a pro.”

bbPress hosting packages with ITX Design start for as little as $ 4.95 per month if the customer only plan to host a single website. Other shared hosting packages provide the ability to host literally dozens of websites. All packages with ITX Design come fully equipped with endless disk space and infinite bandwidth, making it so simple to launch a complete bbPress forum in a matter of hours.

Some of the key additions to the new service from ITX Design one or more of the following:


Managed Service
Private DNS
SSH
Sub Domains
Parked Domains
Control Panel
E-mail Accounts
Mailing Lists

and much more…

ITX Design is an established web hosting and domain registration provider based out of Fredericksburg, Virginia providing dedicated servers, shared web hosting, and domain registration for small businesses including server hosting, WordPress hosting, reseller hosting and much more.

For more information, or to speak with a qualified customer support representative, simply call 1-866-577-1442, or visit ITX Design today.







Outdoor Digital Signage Menu Board

INSIGHT DIGITAL SIGNAGE, the leading manufacturer of protective enclosures

for LCD and plasma display equipment, has introduced a completely weather

proof Digital Menu Board enclosure product.

The Digital Menu Board enclosure has been designed to endure even the

harshest of environments while constantly providing complete protection to

the LCD it houses. In the dead of winter, or in a desert heat storm, the

Digital Menu board enclosure maintains an appropriate internal temperature,

preventing any costly downtime and replacement from freezing or overheating.

The completely water proof Digital Menu Board will stand the test of time

where ever the location may be.

The Outdoor Digital Menu Board can serve as a single screen unit, or multiple

units can be attached for double screen menus and even triple screen menus.

The Outdoor Digital Menu Board will easily coincide with any existing signs,

advertisements, or menus already in place.

Digital Menu Boards allow users to convey their message more effectively than

static menu boards and reduces the cost of creating new graphics. With a

high bright display your menu board will be highly visible even in the

brightest sunlight. Our Digital Menu Board can even display eye catching

advertisements in addition to the menu products. Insight Digital Signage’s

Outdoor Digital Menu Board provides the most attractive and the least costly

solution for any outdoor menu need.

http://www.insightdigitalsignage.com/products_digital_menu_board.html

Digital menu boards for restaurant drive up windows are just one example of

outdoor digital signage. Similar to indoor digital signage, where LCDs are

used for advertising, branding, promotion and information, outdoor

applications take these vulnerable electronic units outdoors to where there

is typically a larger audience. Using LCDs outdoors does require protection

against rain, snow, wind, and vandalism. Proprietary and very expensive

outdoor LCDs are on the market, but the cost is usually far too great.

Perhaps the best solution for protection, value, and flexibility for LCD

displays in an outdoor environment is an LCD Enclosure. They can be

customized to suit almost any environment protecting any type of LCD display

from all elements and they are also far more cost effective than outdoor

rated LCDs.

In addition to outdoor digital signage enclosures, PC and LCD TV enclosures

are the perfect solution to display company or production information in wet

or dusty industrial environments such as factory or shop floors. Prices of

LCD and plasma televisions continue to drop. The falling prices are

encouraging LCD purchases for factory production floors for use in pushing

training content, quality control, sales data, production data and more to

the production floor.

The NEMA 4 or NEMA 4X PC and LCD enclosures are built with strong steel

material to withstand the harshest of environments, including pressurized

moisture, rain, dust, dirt, tampering, wind, oil, grease and more. Standard

cooling fans and optional AC units, heaters, and thermostats insure that the

LCD and/or PC inside the enclosure remains protected in any environment, even

outdoor, public, and industrial factory or plant environments that could and

can be very harsh.

Insight Digital Signage (A Division of PC

Enclosures, Inc.) is the leading manufacturer of

protective digital signage enclosures. Our

digital signage and LCD enclosures are the

perfect advertising solution for any location and

budget.

Digital Poster And Digital Menu Board

Commercial building owners have noticed how powerful a digital poster is, so let us check out how an lcd advertising display is utilized by property managers. Digital menu boards were very first used to replace static printed posters, but now these are growing in desire as fast as the digital signage industry itself.

The digital poster can exhibit the leisure opportunities available from theatre shows, to live comedians on stage, to dinner bookings at exclusive restaurants. These posters can be residing in the guest services division that way all information is displayed in bright neon writing. For instance, a reservation for 4 at an exclusive eatery can be posted on one section while another section can be displayed to show the various kinds of menu specials. That way you are able to divide the board into sections and market all the amenities your hotel offers.

Technology is driving digital signage into new and broader areas. In this tough economy spending thousands of dollars on advertising is just not realistic, so not all companies are in a position to advertise which is how their business eventually ends up crumbling. The two options above can provide the same end results with minimal investment of time and money, so now everyone from car repair shops to lawyers to retail shops, can now have these amazing marketing signs without losing any money doing so. They can be placed in their reception or customer waiting areas.

Digital message signs and displays were particularly designed for the reception and waiting areas, so they can inform and entertain customers when they are waiting for their meeting or their car. Now we see these in hair salons, dentists, coffee houses, restaurants and small mom and pop shops.

Selecting a LED message board is the entry level for any digital signage solution, as well as being the most affordable it is also the easiest to set up and configure. No software to set up or just a simple idea and the ability to transpose it on the board is all you need, once you do that turn the power switch and let the board do the rest. Screen sizes, range from 10inches and go up to 35 inches, can be mounted in either portrait or landscape position and be hung or supported by a custom easel.
Digital menu board.

As the name suggests, these were initially designed for displaying eye catching digital menus in Quick Serve Restaurants (QSR), and are now evolving from every type of business out there. One of the huge benefits with the LED board is it displays a more impressive content, and creates a WOW factor. When you are looking for a new advertising method, choose the best and let the LED Board boost your sales and get your business the recognition it deserves.

Lari Smith has been writing articles online for nearly 3 years now. Specialize in business signs articles. If you need more about Writing Board and LED Message Board method, please reference http://www.flashingboards.com/.