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Can I Take Your Order?

So you have decided to open your very own quick-service restaurant (QSR)?  Or, you have decided to rethink the way you are currently doing things.  Well, besides the no-brainers like your menu offerings, staff, interior design and all the red tape you need to rip down before opening, I would recommend that you put some […]

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5 Tips to Make Your Menu Board Approval Process Go Smoothly

It seems like a simple concept.  You receive your menu board layout, and you send back the changes you want made as well as what you like and don’t like.  For the most part that is accurate.  However, there are areas and ways to go about it that will minimize the amount of revisions and […]

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The Skinny on the Fast Casual Scene

This week I decided to shake things up a bit.  Instead of writing another blog on menu boards, digital menu boards, drive-thrus or in-store signage, I’ll take this blog to provide you a quick low-down on what’s going on in the world of fast casual restaurants.  My compilation is based on information gathered from Fast […]

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Menu Board Story Time

A wise man once told me, “Awareness is curative.”  Specifically in business, there has been no other saying that has resonated with me more.  On paper it is a simple concept.  It is a glorified way of saying “learn from your mistakes.” However put in another light, awareness is also something you can arm yourself […]

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Digital Menu Board Solution – Or No Solution at All?

The term “solution” is one that gets tossed around a little too easily nowadays.  In math, the solution is the answer; it is black and white with no grey area.  So why is it that when it comes to consumer goods and services, this is not the case?  In a lot of circumstances, the actual […]

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The Importance of Well-Designed Menu Boards

If you have read any of our blogs you have probably noticed that we have touched on the title of this blog in bits and pieces throughout most of them.  Whether it be Increase Sales with Strategically Placed Signage or Speed of Service Affected by Poorly Designed Menu Boards or a number of others, it […]

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Increase Sales with Strategically Placed Signage

Have you driven by a McDonalds lately?  What about a Burger King?  Have you been inside a Dunkin Donuts in the last, well, forever?  What about a 7/11?  Other than being monsters in their industry, what do they all have in common?  (I am guessing the title may have given it away) Signs, signs and […]

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Digital Menu Boards: The Message is (NOT) Clear

I was lying in bed the other night on the heels of a three demo day thinking to myself, “I really nailed those digital menu board demos today.”  I had checkmarks beside everything I was looking to achieve: Qualified on price prior to the demo being scheduled… √ Discussed their objectives in detail, dug deeper and […]

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Breaking Down the 12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards

On May 13th, 2012 Digital Signage Today published the “12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards.”  What they did was survey quick-service and fast casual restaurants that have already installed digital menu boards and had them define these benefits based on their experiences. They then had these operators weight the impact of each, which yielded the […]

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5 Reasons to Use Commercial Grade LCD Screens for Digital Menu Boards

So you have decided to go the digital menu board route, which is excellent. You are forward-thinking enough to see the value in such a system – the ability to test market items, control inventory, promote specials and limited time offers, change your content quickly and easily and the list goes on. All of this is […]

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