# Digital signage for quick service restaurant chains Running quick service restaurant menu boards, promotional and daypart content across multiple stores, played from each screen's own browser and driven centrally from one channel. Source: https://channelos.tv/industries/quick-service-restaurants ## What runs it ChannelOS plays as a web page in the browser the screen already has: Android TV, Google TV, webOS, Fire TV, a Chromebox, or a laptop in kiosk mode on the HDMI port. There is also a native Android TV app, downloaded as an APK from channelos.tv rather than from Google Play. There is no media player box to buy and no per-device licence. ## What goes on the screen - **The menu wall, across every store.** Stores tune into a channel, so the board is edited once and every store on that channel follows it. A second store costs no extra work. - **Dayparting on the clock.** Breakfast, lunch and late boards each placed on their own hours, every store following its own clock, with nobody in a store for the switch. - **Promotions with a start and an end.** A campaign placed on its dates goes up everywhere on the day and comes down on its own, which is the half printed promos always get wrong. - **What is each store showing, right now.** The screens board answers that without a phone call, which is usually the actual job when somebody asks whether the promo landed. ## When ChannelOS is the wrong answer ChannelOS does not integrate with a POS or a menu management system. There is no sync with Toast, Square, Oracle Micros, NCR or a franchise menu database, so prices and item availability are maintained in ChannelOS rather than fed from the till, and an item 86'd on the POS will not disappear from the board by itself. There is also no approval workflow, no franchisee permission hierarchy and no brand-compliance locking, so a chain that needs head office to approve what a franchisee may change should expect to buy enterprise QSR signage for that. ChannelOS fits the growing chain, from a handful of stores up, whose boards are maintained by a small central team. ## Questions ### What is digital signage for a QSR chain? QSR digital signage means running menu boards, promotional content and daypart switches across multiple quick service stores from one place. In ChannelOS a board is an editable show and stores tune into a channel, so the menu is edited once centrally and every store on that channel picks it up in seconds rather than each store being loaded individually. ### How do I know whether a promo actually went up in every store? The screens board shows what each paired screen is playing at that moment, so you can see which stores took the change without phoning any of them. This matters because a screen derives what it shows from the schedule in real time, which means a store that did not update is usually a store that is offline rather than a store that missed a publish. ### Does it sync with our POS or menu management system? No. There is no integration with Toast, Square, Oracle Micros, NCR or a franchise menu database, so prices and availability live in ChannelOS and an item taken off the till will not come off the board by itself. A chain whose menu must be driven by the POS should buy QSR signage with that integration. ### Can franchisees be stopped from changing the brand's boards? Not through a permission hierarchy, because there is not one. ChannelOS has no franchisee roles, no approval workflow and no brand-compliance locking, so in practice the editing login stays with the central team and stores are screens that tune in. If per-franchisee permissions are a requirement, that is a reason to buy enterprise signage. ### What does each store need installed? Nothing, in most cases. ChannelOS plays in the browser already in Android TV, Google TV, webOS and Fire TV screens, there is a native Android TV app downloaded as an APK from our own site, and older menu panels take any cheap HDMI stick that loads a modern web page. No per-device licence, no server and nothing on the store network. ### How does pricing work across many stores? Billing is per screen per month at the rates on the pricing page, with the first screen free forever, so cost tracks the number of screens rather than the number of stores or users. Free screens carry a ChannelOS banner that opens into a full slide about every two minutes, which a customer-facing menu wall would be on a paid plan to remove. ## Related - [Digital signage for restaurants](https://channelos.tv/digital-signage-for-restaurants): The single-site version: menu boards, dayparting and specials. - [Many screens, one channel](https://channelos.tv/blog/manage-many-screens-with-channels): Why the tenth store costs the same work as the second. - [Drive-thru boards](https://channelos.tv/blog/drive-thru-digital-menu-boards): Outdoor brightness, order-point layout and the timing of a lane. - [Digital menu boards](https://channelos.tv/digital-menu-boards): The whole menu wall on the screens you already own.