Drive-thru Menu Boards

Why Your Drive-Thru is not Attracting Enough Customers

Drive-thru locations are at a distinct advantage given their mere existence provides an additional revenue stream. However, with it comes certain expectations from your customers. Speed of service, convenience and good communication come to mind. Yet, if your signage is inadequate and your communication system cuts in and out it will lead to delays, confusion and frustration for both your customers and employees. Without realizing it, you’re putting yourself at a distinct disadvantage to retain them as return customers.

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How Menu Boards, Digital Signage & Drive-Thrus Can Lower Labor Costs at QSRs

Quick Service and Fast Casual restaurants live by their name, “quick & fast” and when it comes to service and customer expectations. Customers want their food, they want their order to be correct, and they want it ASAP. What complicates this is the increased pain point of QRS operators. What is it you ask? Employees! Not enough, they come and go as they please, retention, quality, etc. With constant turnover labor costs are going through the roof. Thankfully, there are signage and technological approaches that can be taken to lessen this burden.

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Choosing The Right Menu Boards for Your Restaurant

Whether you are in the throws of opening a new restaurant or your current setup needs a facelift, the most critical piece of signage you have at your disposal is your menu board. Menu boards, whether indoor or outdoor drive-thrus, present you with the single-most captive of audiences. When done right, they enhance the experience, influence purchasing decisions, reinforce your brand, increase efficiencies, and increase your average ticket amount. Today, we’ll share a breakdown of different options and offer some considerations before buying your system.

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Adding a Drive-Thru to Your Restaurant? Here’s What You Need to Know

With consumer behavior continuing to be shaped by the fast-paced world we live in, it makes perfect sense to consider adding a drive-thru to your location should you not already have one. Sales through the drive-thru lane have never been higher and with the added convenience of this setup it will improve customer satisfaction making return trips more likely. While you may think it is as simple as throwing a drive-thru menu board up with a communication system, there are several steps involved before your first “welcome to good burger, home of the good burger may I take your order?” at the drive-thru window.

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A Drive-thru Poem

In a world of shakes and burger buns,
Where ketchup flows and mustard runs,
There it is, so crip and so bright,
Origin’s Drive-thru, what an amazing sight.

Digital or static it stands tall and proud,
Announcing specials to the hungry crowd.
With a crystal-clear speaker and OCB screen,
It’s where famished patrons pull up to convene.

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How QSRs Can Leverage Signage to Drive Revenue

Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are fast-paced environments that rely on signage to draw the attention of customers whose attention spans can be fleeting at times. Signage can be used for a variety of purposes, 1- reinforce a brand, 2- guide traffic, 3- identify your business outside, 4- display your offerings, etc. It is important to note that in all these scenarios, you can influence your customers and steer their journey and purchasing decisions. Today, we’ll look at several signage touchpoints where QSRs can drive real impact.

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Strategies for Drive-thrus, Digital Displays & Menu Boards

While “menu boards” are quite often associated with restaurants, there are several other industries that use signage to list their offerings. For example, automotive shops showing their services, banks with a list of account options, or admission fees at the movie theater. So whether it is one of these environments or you’re running a quick-service restaurant (QSR) or fast-casual chain, your menu board is the silent sales person you may never have realized you had. Through drive-thrus, digital displays and traditional menu boards, you can significantly increase revenue, improve order accuracy, and enhance customer experiences by deploying effective strategies. Let’s dig in!

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Why Cloud-Based Digital Signage Isn’t a Bad Thing — It’s Actually a Game-Changer

When businesses think of digital signage, dynamic playback using eye-catching transitions with animation and video comes to mind.  Behind that content and “under the hood” is a content management system (CMS) that controls the playback. Debate still exists over whether cloud-based systems are the way to go.  That said, we are here to explain why operating your digital signage in the cloud isn’t only a good thing, it’s the only logical choice. Why? Let us explain.

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Drive-Thru Lane – Additions That Can Boost Revenue and Efficiency

In its most traditional sense, a drive-thru needs three components, 1- a sign, 2- a way in which to communicate and 3- vehicle detection so you know someone is waiting to place an order. While these alone are far better than nothing, there are new and innovative ways to cater to the emerging clientele desperate for a convenient, time saving, accurate order-taking process at the drive-thru.

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Add a Drive-thru to Your Location to Boost Revenue

Nowadays, convenience is king and there are few innovations in the restaurant industry have proven as consistently valuable as the drive-thru. For quick service restaurants (QSRs), drive-thrus not only offer convenience for customers but it is an added revenue stream that concurrently increases overall business efficiency. If your restaurant has the space, checks the zoning “boxes” and has town approvals to make a drive-thru happen, it is the best investment you can make.

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