# Cafe coffee menu board · Landscape

> A free cafe menu board for any TV. Espresso drinks, filter of the day and a pastry deal, priced and legible from the queue. Your first screen is free.

Source: https://channelos.tv/t/cafe-coffee-menu-board-landscape-f4da7615-e918-48b2-bad6-5e3c6861bae5
Category: Restaurant & menu
Shape: 16:9 (landscape)
Slides: 4
Author: ChannelOS (community)
Price: free

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## What is a cafe menu board?

A cafe menu board is the screen behind a coffee counter listing drinks and prices. On a TV it is a set of slides that loop: the shop's name, the drinks list with prices, one offer, and opening hours. Changing a price is typing it, so the board never disagrees with the till.

A coffee counter runs this on a wall mounted TV: the venue, the priced list, one offer and the hours.

## What is on this board

The slides below are the template's real content, flattened to text. Remixing copies the
whole deck into your own workspace, where every line is editable.

### Slide 1 of 4

![Cafe coffee menu board · Landscape, slide 1: the venue and what it is known for](https://channelos.tv/templates/01-cafe-coffee/l-1-hero.webp)

- Speciality coffee
- The Slow Pour
- Single-origin beans, roasted every Tuesday.
- @theslowpour · coffee & kitchen

### Slide 2 of 4

![Cafe coffee menu board · Landscape, slide 2: the priced menu of dishes](https://channelos.tv/templates/01-cafe-coffee/l-2-menu.webp)

- The bar
- Flat white
- $3.80
- Cortado
- $3.40
- Filter of the day
- $3.20
- rotating single origin
- Iced latte
- $4.20
- @theslowpour · coffee & kitchen

### Slide 3 of 4

![Cafe coffee menu board · Landscape, slide 3: the offer of the day with its price](https://channelos.tv/templates/01-cafe-coffee/l-3-offer.webp)

- Every weekday
- Pastry + coffee
- $5.50
- Any espresso drink with a fresh-baked pastry, 7 to 10am.
- @theslowpour · coffee & kitchen

### Slide 4 of 4

![Cafe coffee menu board · Landscape, slide 4: the sign-off with opening hours](https://channelos.tv/templates/01-cafe-coffee/l-4-hours.webp)

- See you tomorrow.
- Open 7am - 4pm, seven days
- @theslowpour · coffee & kitchen

## Frequently asked questions

### What should go on a cafe menu board?

Put the drinks people order without looking first: flat white, cortado, latte, filter. Four to six lines is the whole board, because a queue reads one screen in about four seconds and a list of twenty is read as none. Give the filter of the day its own line with the origin under it, since that is the line that changes daily and is the reason a regular looks up at all. Keep food to a separate slide rather than crowding the drinks. Prices belong on the right, aligned, so the eye runs down one column instead of hunting.

### How big should the text be on a coffee shop board?

Use the sign trade rule: 25mm of capital letter height for every 3 metres of viewing distance. Measure from the screen to the back of the queue, not to the till. A counter read from 4 metres needs capitals about 33mm tall, which on a 43 inch panel is roughly 6 percent of the screen height. Set the drink names at that size and let the origin notes and milk options sit smaller. Then stand at the door and read it. If you lean in, cut words rather than shrinking type.

### Do I need a special screen for a cafe?

No, but two things decide whether a domestic TV survives. How many hours a day it runs, and how much daylight hits it. Panels sold for commercial use carry a duty rating (commonly 16 hours a day) and higher brightness, and many consumer warranties limit or exclude commercial installation, so read the warranty before buying on price. A cafe with a west-facing window needs brightness more than it needs size. Put the screen on the same switch as the lights so it is not running overnight.

### How often should the board change?

Two rhythms, and they are different jobs. The filter of the day and any sold-out line change daily, by whoever opens, and that has to be a thirty second job on a phone or it stops happening by week three. Prices change rarely and deliberately, and the moment they do the screen must change with the till: a board showing yesterday's price is the one thing a customer will argue about. Everything else, the hours and the name, is set once.

## How to use it

1. Open https://channelos.tv/t/cafe-coffee-menu-board-landscape-f4da7615-e918-48b2-bad6-5e3c6861bae5 and press "Use this template".
2. It is copied into your own workspace, where you edit the words, prices and colours.
3. Open the player link on the TV, pair it once with the code on screen, and the board airs.

It runs in the television's own web browser. There is no media player box to buy and
nothing to install. The first screen is free.