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digital signage menu boards
Maximize drive thru efficiency and increase customer satisfaction with Look Digital Menu Boards. Present dynamic, real-time content, enhancing the ordering experience
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Drive thru digital menu board benefits
Real-time menu updates
Instantly update your drive-thru menu items, pricing, and promotions, ensuring your drive-thru always reflects your latest offers and products.
Speed up the ordering process
Digital boards make it easy to browse menu options and place orders faster, even during peak times. Display clear menus to reduce wait times and improve service efficiency
Promote high-margin items
Use dynamic visuals to promote high-margin items such as combo meals and limited-time offers drawing attention to upsell opportunities and maximizing each customer transaction.
Time-based menu flexibility
Schedule your drive thru menu to automatically switch between breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. Your customers will always see the most relevant offers.
Enhance visibility in all conditions
Use high-brightness displays and adjustable settings to ensure easy readability whether it's day, night, or rain. Your drive-thru menu remains visible in a variety of lighting conditions.
Reduce printing costs
Get rid of the recurring expense of printing static menus every time you change items or prices. Digital menu boards allow you to make updates instantly without costly reprints.
How digital menu board works
Look Digital Menu Boards provide an efficient and flexible way to manage your drive-thru menu content, helping you keep customers engaged and improve order speed in a couple of easy steps
Create content
Upload your menu items, prices, and promotions, or use one of our free templates to create an appealing and easy-to-read menu for your drive thru
Playlist and schedule
Create playlists and schedule them to run at different times of the day to ensure your customers always see the most relevant menu items
Start playing
Deliver your playlists to one or all screens with the latest new products, specials, and promotions, boosting your sales with digital displays
Free digital signage templates
for drive thru menu boards
Choose from our professional, pre-designed template selection tailored specifically for drive thru landscape and portrait screens. Easily edit these templates to match your branding, highlight key offers, and maintain a consistent customer experience.
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Success stories
Hear from our delighted customers! Check out their inspiring quotes about how our service has transformed their digital signage implementations.
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Grupo MYT
We went with Look, because it gave us the full control of the content that we were streaming to our locations and it also gave us the scalability, which is even more important. Great experience overall.
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Lafontaine Gourmet
Look dramatically simplifies the content management process for us. I can change the menus in a couple of clicks in all the restaurants from any place. It’s really easy-to-use and the solution works just smoothly.
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BarrelHouse Brewing Co.
Working with Look is been amazing! And one thing I'm excited about even more than experience we already had is the future!
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Frequently asked questions
Can the menu switch between breakfast, lunch, and dinner on its own?
It does. Scheduled playlists and dayparting rules handle the swap: breakfast off at 11:00 AM, lunch straight after, late-night at whatever hour suits the site. Set the times once and the boards follow on their own, whether that is one screen or all of them.
How much does a digital drive-thru menu board cost?
The total moves with a few things: how many screens you put up, the outdoor hardware, mounting, cabling, electrical work and installation. On the software side, Look DS starts at $15 per screen per month, or $13.50 if you pay annually. More screens – lower price. The display itself and the physical install are separate line items. So a simple retrofit lands nowhere near the price of a brand-new multi-screen lane with outdoor enclosures, foundations and order-confirmation hardware.
What is a digital drive-thru menu board?
A digital drive-thru menu board is an outdoor screen that shows the menu, prices, promos and the rest of the ordering information, and you update it remotely instead of walking out to it. Most setups come down to three things: a commercial display, a media player or a compatible app, and a cloud CMS like Look DS. Printed boards cannot do the next part. A digital menu changes by time of day, and nobody has to swap physical graphics to make that happen.
Will a digital drive-thru menu board survive rain, snow, and heat? What about enclosures?
Yes, a digital drive-thru menu board can operate year-round if the display or enclosure is designed for outdoor use. Samsung’s OH55A-S and LG’s 55XE4F-M both carry IP56 protection and are rated for operation from about −30°C to +50°C. If you reuse a non-outdoor display, the enclosure must also manage water, dust, condensation, heating, and cooling rather than simply covering the screen.
Can I run several lanes and several locations from one account?
Yes, one Look DS account runs several drive-thru screens, lanes and locations from a single dashboard. Push a change to one screen or to the whole network, and each site can still keep its own schedule and its own content. Look currently reports more than 60,000 screens and 11,000 users across 120+ countries, so multi-location setups are well-trodden ground here.
Can I keep my existing boards and just add digital signage software?
Yes, many drive-thru installations can be retrofitted without replacing every existing component. If your current screen is suitable for outdoor operation and has HDMI, you can connect a Look HDMI Player; supported smart displays and devices can also run the free Look App. Look currently supports 10 platform families, including Android, Windows, Linux, macOS, LG webOS, Samsung Tizen, Raspberry Pi, Google TV, Fire OS, and Amazon Signage.
How bright does a drive-thru screen need to be in direct sunlight?
For a drive-thru screen exposed to direct sunlight, 3,500–4,000 nits is a strong benchmark for reliable daytime visibility. Samsung’s 55-inch OH55A-S is rated at 3,500 nits typical and 4,000 peak, while LG’s 55XE4F-M is rated at 4,000 nits. Anti-reflection treatment and visibility through polarized sunglasses also matter, so brightness should be evaluated as part of the full outdoor display design.
What is an order confirmation board, and do I need one?
Think of it as a receipt the customer can read before paying. While the order is still being taken, the board shows the basket, the modifiers and the running total, so a wrong drink gets caught at the speaker instead of at the window. A digital menu does not need one to work. Where accuracy is what costs you money, it earns its keep: in a Coates case study, McDonald's Australia and New Zealand saw drive-thru order accuracy improve 15% after a wider digital ordering rollout.
Can prices sync automatically from my POS?
Yes, if your POS can talk to Look DS over an API. Change a price there or flag an item as sold out, and the board picks it up, so nobody is fixing screens by hand halfway through a shift. The catch is that every POS exposes different data, so how much you can automate depends on the API you have. Budget for an integration, not a switch you flip once.
Who installs drive-thru digital menu boards?
Outdoor screen installation should be handled by a qualified AV, digital-signage, or electrical contractor, while Look DS provides the software and player layer. The Look HDMI Player itself uses a simple 3-step setup—plug in, sign in, and pair the screen—but an outdoor lane may also need a weather-rated mount or enclosure, AC power, network cabling, foundations, and permits. A local installation partner can handle that physical work.
Look’s built-in digital signage apps
- Enhance your drive-thru digital menu boards with built-in apps from Look. Use social media integration, traffic information, news feeds, or RSS tickers to deliver engaging and relevant content.
