Menu board

Menu boards are digital menus for presenting daily food offerings or products to customers. Using Menu boards, you can clearly prepare menus for individual days, assign images and prices to items, and display the final result in preview.

• Overview
• Daily menu boards
• Calendar planning
• Creating a Daily Menu
• Adding meals (Daily)
• Editor and Menu Board Preview (Daily)
• Static menu boards
• Creating a Static Menu
• Adding meals (Static)
• Editor and Menu Board Preview (Static)
• Creating and using Meal templates

1. Editing Menu Board: from this setting you can create or edit two types of menu boards - Daily and Static.
2. Menu board view type (skin):

Classic view (above)

Gallery view (below)

3. Show/hide allergens, categories or photos.

• Configure Photos size using the slider.

4. Toggle maximum number of columns.

5. Show/hide menu title or sub-title.

6. Choose screen orientation: Portrait, Landscape or set your own screen dimensions by clicking on “Create custom” button.

7. Appearance:

• Customize text and background color using the palette.

• Customize text font, style and size.

Once you are done setting everything up, click on “Create” or “Create & Publish” to save progress.

Is a menu that changes every day based on a calendar. To create a daily menu, you first need to “Create new location” — think of this as a physical store where the daily menu will be available. You can manage all your locations and their daily menus on a dedicated page. If you already create a location, select one from the list.

1. Give your location a name.
2. Specify the data source (application) for your location in the Advanced settings.

Click “Save” afterwards.

By clicking on the newly created location, a monthly calendar will open where you can prepare menus in advance.

For each day, click on the desired date in the calendar and create a daily menu for that day.

After creating the menu for the current month, you can use the "Next" button to move on to planning the menu for the following month or subsequent months.

Click on "Prev” button to view menus for previous months.

Fill in the required information about the menu in the editor, before adding information about the meals:

1. Specify the date of the menu.
2. Set up menu language: add language code and language name to add it to the list of options.

After the menu is created, you can choose it from the list to edit it later by selecting Menu’s location from the list.

3. Click on “Add Meal” to start adding dishes to the menu.

4. Click on “Add from Template" to add a dish from a template, created earlier.

5. Click “Save” to save changes or “Cancel” to revert them.

1. Menu date: choose a day for which you want to edit the menu.
2. Menu board location: choose your menu’s location.
3. Alternative Language: choose a language the menu will be translated into.
4. Mark the meal as available or unavailable for sale.
5. Basic information: select the category to which the item belongs (e.g., main menu, quick meal, soup,...), add meal description and price.
   Note: None of the above fields (Name, Category, Description, Price) are mandatory. You can save the offer even without filling in some or all of the fields. The system will not warn you about empty fields; simply continue onward.
6. Meal management menu: Save Meal as a Template, Duplicate (the same menu item will appear below) or Delete the meal.
7. Image management menu: Add a photo of the item by clicking the “Select image” button. In the new menu, choose an image from the media library by clicking on “Add” button near it or upload a new one using the “Upload media” button.

If an image is already selected, you will see a small preview. Click on “Change Image” to choose another image or on “Delete” to remove it.

8. Nutritional Information: you can enter basic nutritional values in the corresponding fields, like Energy (kcal), Proteins (g), Fats (g), Carbohydrates (g) and Cholesterol (mg).

9. Allergens: enter meal’s allergen codes separated by commas (e.g., 1, 3, 7).

10. Use these buttons to:

• Cancel: to remove the meal and exit the Daily menu editing window.
• Delete: to remove your menu board. Confirm deletion by clicking on “Delete” again.
• Duplicate: to copy your menu board. You can convert it into a different menu type (from status to daily and vice versa).

• Save: to save the item to the Menu Board.

11. Click on “Add Meal” to add another dish to the menu. Follow the above steps to complete all fields.

12. Click on “Add from a Template” to select a previously created dish.

After creating a menu is created, a preview of the Menu Board will be displayed. Here you can see how the entered items (the meal offerings) will appear on the final board.

1. The highlighted frame in the image below shows how the filled-in information (name, price, category) will be displayed under each item’s picture.

2. You can edit the menu's contents by clicking “Edit menu board” button and a window will open where you can choose whether you want to edit daily or static menu boards.

a. If a Daily menu is chosen, a menu calendar will open.

b. Create a new location or select an existing one from the list.

c. Click on any day in the calendar to edit or add a menu Board for that day and a new window with meal information will open. Days that already have a menu prepared are marked green.

1. Menu date: choose the date to edit for the daily menu
2. Alternative language: set menu translation language.
3. Mark the meal as available or unavailable for sale.
4. Meal management menu: Save Meal as a Template, Duplicate (the same menu item will appear below) or Delete the meal
5. Click on the arrow near the meal to show more details or hide them.
6. Edit nutritional Information: change any values in the corresponding fields, for Energy (kcal), Proteins (g), Fats (g), Carbohydrates (g) and Cholesterol (mg).
7. Image: change the photo of the item by clicking on the “Change image” button. Choose a new image from the media library and click on “Add” button near it to upload it. To delete the photo, click on the “Bin” icon.
8. Allergens: edit meal’s allergen codes. Add new ones separated by commas (e.g., 1, 3, 7).
9. Click on “Add Meal” to add another dish to the menu.
10. Use these buttons to:

• Cancel: to remove the meal and exit the Daily menu editing window.
• Delete: to remove your menu board. Confirm deletion by clicking on “Delete” again.
• Duplicate: to copy your menu board. You can convert it into a different menu type (from status to daily and vice versa).

• Save: to save the item to the Menu Board.

11. Click on “Add from a Template” to select a previously created dish.

Note: After creating and saving the Menu Board, you can reopen it from the calendar at any time and adjust the content as needed.

Allow you to create static menus and are perfect for content that doesn't change frequently, such as drinks, desserts, or permanent menu items. Create a static menu board to showcase your permanent offerings.

Fill in the required information about the menu in the editor, before adding information about the meals:

1. Change menu name.
2. Set up menu language: add language code and language name to add it to the list of options.

After the menu is created, you can choose it from the list to edit it later.

3. Click on “Add Meal” to start adding dishes to the menu.

4. Click on “Add from Template" to add a dish from a template, created earlier.

5. Click “Save” to save changes or “Cancel” to revert them.

1. Name: change menu name.
2. Alternative Language: set menu translation language.
3. Mark the meal as available or unavailable for sale.
4. Basic information: select the category to which the item belongs (e.g., main menu, quick meal, soup,...), add meal description and price.
   Note: None of the above fields (Name, Category, Description, Price) are mandatory. You can save the offer even without filling in some or all of the fields. The system will not warn you about empty fields; simply continue onward.
5. Image: add a photo of the item by clicking the “Select image” button. In the new menu, choose an image from the media library by clicking on “Add” button near it or upload a new one using the “Upload media” button.

6. Nutritional Information: you can enter basic nutritional values in the corresponding fields, like Energy (kcal), Proteins (g), Fats (g), Carbohydrates (g) and Cholesterol (mg).

7. Allergens: enter meal’s allergen codes separated by commas (e.g., 1, 3, 7).

8. Translations: add meal’s translated name, category and description.

9. Click on “Add Meal” to add another dish to the menu. Follow the above steps to complete all fields.

10. Click on “Add from a Template” to select a previously created dish.

11. After entering the information, click the “Save” button to save the item to the Menu Board or or on “Cancel” to remove the meal and exit the static menu creation window.

After creating the static menu a preview of the Menu Board will be displayed at the bottom of the screen under the App Instances section.

1. The highlighted frame in the image below shows how the filled-in information (name, price, category) will be displayed under each item’s picture.

2. You can edit the menu's contents by clicking “Edit menu board” button.

a. A window will open where you can choose whether you want to edit daily or static menu boards.

b. If a Static menu is chosen, a window will open, where you can create or choose an existing menu. In the image below, we can see that the existing "Dessert menu" menu board is currently active.

c. Click on “Edit Menu Board” and a new window with meal information will open. Here you can change the menu and meal’s information.

1. Name: change menu name.
2. Alternative language: set menu translation language.
3. Mark the meal as available or unavailable for sale.
4. Delete the meal from the menu.
5. Click on the arrow near the meal to show more details or hide them.
6. Edit nutritional Information: change any values in the corresponding fields, for Energy (kcal), Proteins (g), Fats (g), Carbohydrates (g) and Cholesterol (mg).
7. Image: change the photo of the item by clicking on the “Change image” button. Choose a new image from the media library and click on “Add” button near it to upload it. To delete the photo, click on the “Bin” icon.
8. Allergens: edit meal’s allergen codes. Add new ones separated by commas (e.g., 1, 3, 7).
9. Click on “Add Meal” to add another dish to the menu.
10. Click the “Save” button to save Menu Board edits.
    Click on “Cancel” to revert your edits.
    Click on “Duplicate” to copy your menu board. You can convert it into a different menu type (from status to daily and vice versa).

Click on “Delete” to remove your menu board. Confirm deletion by clicking on “Delete” again.

After you click on “Save Meal as a Template” you can set it up in a new menu:

1. Confirm or change meal basic information.
2. Add translation: type in name, category and description of the meal in another language.
3. Choose a Space the template will be used in. You can save it to the current Space only or make it available to all Spaces.
4. Click “Save” to save finish template creation or “Cancel” to exit the editing menu.
   

All saved templates can be accessed later by clicking on “Add from a Template” button.

This menu allows you to:

1. Filter meals by Name or Spaces (All, All Spaces or Space-specific).
2. Shows basic Meal data (name, price, creation date, assigned space).
3. Click on “Select” to add the templated meal or on “Cancel” to return to the previous menu.
4. Use the arrows to switch between different pages.