How to Create a Digital Menu Board

A digital menu board is a set of screens above your counter showing your menu from Loopvew, so prices and items change from the dashboard instead of the print shop. This tutorial builds a typical three-screen board: two menu screens and one promotion screen.

Step 1 — Plan the screens

Give every screen one job:

Keep the menu screens static so guests can read them. Put all the movement on the promotion screen.

Step 2 — Design the menu slides

Design one slide per menu screen at its native resolution — 1920×1080 for landscape, 1080×1920 for portrait.

• Large prices and names, readable from the back of the queue.
• Clear groups — combos first, then singles, then add-ons.
• Photos for high-margin items, placed top-left or centre.
• Consistent layout across screens so the board reads as one.

More in our menu board guide and content design guide.

Step 3 — Upload to the library

In the Loopvew CMS, open the Library tab, select Upload Media, and drag in your slides and promo videos. Name files clearly — for example menu-mains-2026-09.jpg — so the right version is easy to find.

Step 4 — Build playlists

Create one playlist per screen:

• Menu screens — a single slide, or a few slides with long durations.
• Promotion screen — three to six slides or short videos at 8–10 seconds each.

Step 5 — Publish to the screens

Publish each playlist to its screen. Running several locations? Put matching screens into a group — for example “All left menu boards” — and publish once to update every store.

Keep it current

• Sold out? Swap in a version of the slide without the item and publish.
• Price change? Update the slide, replace it in the playlist, publish.
• Different menus through the day? Build a playlist per daypart and schedule them by time of day.

Players cache content, so the board keeps showing the menu through a network outage.