🍽️ Restaurant Digital Signage

Digital Signage for Restaurants

How do you keep menus, offers and service information current across a busy dining room, and never reprint a thing? Look DS runs every screen in the venue from one browser. Counter boards, queue-line offers, the dining room, kiosks, the kitchen: all of it on a schedule you set once.

Every screen in the venue, one account

Counter, dining room, kiosk and kitchen screens publish from the same dashboard.

Content that changes by daypart

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and happy hour swap themselves on your schedule.

Screens that keep playing offline

Cached images and video carry on when the venue's connection drops.
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Take control of every screen in the restaurant

Restaurant digital signage gives restaurants, cafes and bars one centralized cloud platform for menus, promotions, guest information and staff notices on every connected screen, scheduled by daypart and published remotely.
There is nothing to reprint here, and no walking the floor with a USB stick in hand. Staff publish from a browser, which is how the breakfast board retires itself at 10:30, how a sold-out dish comes off in two clicks, and how happy hour ends up running only where it sells.

Sound familiar?

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      A reprint for every single price change

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      Sold-out dishes still up on the board

    • A red cross inside a black circle

      Every location showing something different

    • A red cross inside a black circle

      Promotions nobody remembers to pull

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What you get with Look

    • One edit, every screen in the group

    • Menus that switch themselves by daypart

    • Boards that keep playing through an outage

    • The same brand on every venue screen

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From the first counter screen to the whole group

Pair a screen, build a playlist, and the board goes live. Your dining room, your kiosk and your next location all join the same way, through these three steps.
  • Schedule

    Connect your screens

    Install the Look App on a compatible display, or plug in the Look HDMI Player. The screen shows a 6-digit device code; pair it with that.
  • Content

    Build and schedule your content

    Group your menus, offers and notices into playlists. Smart Scheduling then swaps them by hour, by weekday, by area of the venue.
  • Playlists

    Publish to the screens you choose

    Publish from any browser. One screen, one venue, or every location in the group at once — screen tags decide which area gets which playlist.
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Digital signage for every area of the restaurant

A guest at the door is at a different point in the visit than one in the queue or already at a table, and each screen has a different job to do. Look runs all of them from one account, and every area keeps its own content on its own schedule.

Storefront and entrance

Turn passing traffic into a table.
Decisions on the street happen fast, so a window or entrance screen has to carry the deciding details: signature dishes, today's special, your opening hours, the delivery apps you are on.
The content's Lifetime setting gives a promotion an end date, so last week's offer takes itself down without anyone remembering to do it. Then service finishes, an evening playlist takes over, and the window carries on working.
Best for: Signature dishes, daily specials, opening hours, delivery partners, seasonal offers

Order counter and queue line

Use the wait to sell the next size up.
Nowhere else do guests read a screen this properly. Put the full menu on the main board above the counter, and give a second screen beside it to combos, add-ons and the limited-time offer.
A multi-zone layout holds the category list, a short food video and a price ticker all at once. One display, the work of three.
Best for: Full menu, combos, add-ons, limited-time offers, price changes

Dining room and bar

Keep the room selling after the order.
Past the counter, a screen stops being a menu and turns into atmosphere. Dessert and drink prompts. Thursday's event. A live Instagram wall. Your Google review score.
Put the tap list on those same screens in a bar, with happy-hour pricing on a timer and tonight's fixture alongside. It all changes as the night moves on. Nobody touches a remote.
Best for: Desserts and drinks, events, social feeds, guest reviews, happy hour

Self-service kiosks

Let guests browse before they order.
Put a touchscreen by the door and guests can tap through the menu, see what goes into a dish, check allergen notes and weigh up combos before they ever reach a member of staff.
The tap-through itself is built from button widgets and scenes. Leave the kiosk idle long enough and it drops back to its loop on its own. Ordering and payment stay where they belong, in the systems built for them.
Best for: Menu browsing, ingredients and allergens, combos, promotions, QR to the full menu

Pickup and delivery counter

Give waiting guests something to read.
The pickup counter sells the visit after this one: loyalty, the app, desserts and coffee, next week's event. A QR widget hands the details to the guest's own phone.
Order events can drive screen content through Zapier or an action trigger. And if you want a collection board or a prep-time display sitting in a zone, Embeddable Code will put it there.
Best for: Loyalty, app download, desserts and coffee, QR links, collection notices

Kitchen and back-of-house

The same platform, pointed inward.
Everything that used to live on a corkboard moves onto screens in the pass, the prep area and the staff room. Shift rotas, prep lists, allergen procedures, training reminders, the week's targets.
Same account as the guest-facing boards, same schedule. So nobody has to buy a second system just to talk to the team.
Best for: Shift rotas, prep lists, allergen procedures, training, team notices

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Look service works seamlessly on any hardware, whether you're planning to purchase or already use it
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Transform any TV or compatible device into digital signage by installing the free Look app.
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What our customers say

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We have 22 locations and zero issues with Look software. It’s so easy to use and has a lot of useful tools that we utilize in our day-to-day business. All-in-all, our experience was top-notch.
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We tried many different solutions for our platform. After many trials and errors, we found Look Digital Signage to be an amazing tool for our purposes.
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I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with Look and it's been a really big game changer for us, because it has helped us to come across as an older business in a much more fresh way.
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Key features

What should you look for in restaurant digital signage software?

Almost no other screen changes as often as a restaurant one. A price moves. A dish sells out. Happy hour starts at five. Judge the software on how fast your edit reaches the screen, on what the board does when the line drops mid-service, and on who is allowed to publish at all.
For restaurants, cafes and bars, these are the capabilities that matter:

Free templates

Restaurant templates for menus, offers and events

Put your brand colors, fonts and logo in once; every template inherits them from there. The food and drink collection covers what restaurant screens actually show — menu boards and category lists, combo and limited-time offers, drink and dessert promotions, opening hours, event nights. Add your dishes and prices, schedule it, publish it. No designer to brief. Nothing to reprint.
BBQ Heaven menu boardChippy's Delight fish and chips special offerSandwiches and more menu board
Chippy's Delight fish and chips special offerSandwiches and more menu boardMidnight Shot, Sunset Sangria and Tropical Breeze cocktail menu
Sandwiches and more menu boardMidnight Shot, Sunset Sangria and Tropical Breeze cocktail menuCrispy and Cold combo deals board
Midnight Shot, Sunset Sangria and Tropical Breeze cocktail menuCrispy and Cold combo deals boardIced Coffee summer menu
Crispy and Cold combo deals boardIced Coffee summer menuSlice of Heaven pizza menu
Iced Coffee summer menuSlice of Heaven pizza menuJuicy T-Bone Steak special deal
Slice of Heaven pizza menuJuicy T-Bone Steak special dealBBQ Heaven menu board
Juicy T-Bone Steak special dealBBQ Heaven menu boardChippy's Delight fish and chips special offer
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Built-in apps

Apps that keep restaurant screens current on their own

Add an app to a playlist the way you add anything else, and from then on it refreshes itself. No one retypes a review score across every venue. The updates come over the internet, while your scheduled images and video keep playing from the local cache through an outage. Mix the two in a playlist and the content stays dynamic without becoming fragile.
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Tips & Guides

Restaurant digital signage resources

    Frequently asked questions about restaurant digital signage

    How much does restaurant digital signage cost?

    Pricing with Look DS begins at $15 per screen per month, and annual billing brings that down to $13.50. More screens, lower price. On top of the subscription, budget for whatever display or media-player hardware you still need: a single screen can often run on a compatible TV that is already in the room, while a bigger rollout usually calls for commercial displays. A 14-day trial with every feature unlocked is available too, so you can price out a real setup before you pay for anything.

    Can I use a regular TV as a digital menu board?

    Yes, you can use a compatible consumer TV for restaurant digital signage in many indoor settings. Look DS supports Android, Fire OS, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi and Amazon Signage devices. For kitchens, storefront windows and drive-thrus, commercial displays are usually a better fit because they are designed for longer operating hours and higher brightness.

    What happens if my internet connection goes down?

    Your scheduled restaurant content keeps playing if the internet goes down. Look DS caches published media locally on each player, so an outage does not automatically leave the screen blank. This is especially useful for drive-thru lanes, basement kitchens and other locations with unstable Wi-Fi; you only need connectivity again when you want to sync new content or settings.

    Can I schedule different menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner automatically?

    Yes, Look DS can switch breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night content automatically using dayparting schedules. For example, you can end breakfast at 10:30 AM and start dinner promotions at 5:00 PM without anyone touching the screen. Seasonal offers and happy-hour campaigns can also be scheduled in advance with their own start and end times.

    How long does restaurant digital signage take to set up?

    A basic one-screen Look DS setup can usually be completed in under an hour. Install the Look App on a compatible device or connect a Look HDMI Player, sign in to the cloud CMS, add your content and publish it to the screen. Multi-location deployments take longer to plan, but additional screens can be added to the same account instead of building separate systems.

    Is digital signage only for chain restaurants or large businesses?

    No, restaurant digital signage works for single-location cafés and bars as well as large chains. Look DS lets you start with one paid screen, while the platform is used across more than 60,000 screens in 120+ countries. A small operator can use the same scheduling, templates and remote-update tools without committing to an enterprise-scale deployment.

    Can I manage multiple restaurant locations from one account?

    One account covers every location, all from the same dashboard. Displays can be grouped by branch, by region or by screen type, and a change then goes out to a single screen or to a whole group. In practice that means a price edit or a sold-out item can be pushed to dozens of restaurants at once, with no separate CMS login for each site.

    Do you have templates and features for cafés and coffee shops?

    Yes. The template library ships with café and coffee-shop layouts, and the same scheduling tools apply to them. Typical boards cover seasonal drinks and the pastry case; others handle size upgrades, modifiers, loyalty offers, Wi-Fi details or opening hours. Any of them can be set to change by daypart. For a two-person team the real benefit is not having to rebuild a screen from scratch every time something on the menu moves.

    Can I run happy hour and tap list screens in a bar?

    Yes, bars can use Look DS to schedule happy-hour promotions, cocktail menus and rotating tap lists on the same screens. A promotion can start automatically at 4:00 PM, disappear at 7:00 PM and be replaced by evening content without staff intervention. Menu data can also be maintained through tools such as Google Sheets when drinks or prices change frequently.

    Can I display allergens and calorie information on digital menu screens?

    Yes, and it sits right next to the items themselves: calorie counts, nutrition detail, allergen flags. Change a recipe once in the CMS and every board picks it up, so nothing gets edited screen by screen. Requirements are not the same everywhere. FDA menu-labeling rules in the U.S. apply to chains with 20 or more locations, while Regulation 1169/2011 covers allergen information on non-prepacked foods in the EU. Since local rules vary, accuracy and placement remain the restaurant's call.

    Can a screen show order-ready numbers or a table waitlist?

    Yes, restaurant screens can show order-ready numbers, pickup instructions or a table waitlist when the relevant data is supplied to the signage system. Look DS supports external triggers through its Actions/API tools and Zapier, so a connected workflow can update what guests see. This is separate from a kitchen display system: Look DS presents the information, while the ordering or waitlist platform remains the source of record.

    Which POS systems can I integrate with Look DS?

    Look DS is not tied to one fixed POS ecosystem. Connections run through Zapier, Google Sheets or a custom API workflow, which covers most setups; Toast POS and Square are called out specifically on the restaurant page, and Zapier itself reaches 1,000+ apps. One caveat for time-sensitive menu changes: test the trigger and check how quickly it syncs before you let an automated workflow run during service.

    Can I run screens across all my franchise locations from one account?

    Yes, a franchise network can run screens across all locations from one Look DS account while separating content by branch, region or screen group. Head office can distribute brand-wide campaigns, while permissions can give local teams access to the content they are allowed to change. Look DS currently manages more than 60,000 screens worldwide, so the same platform can scale from a pilot location to a large network.