असली तंदूर · देसी घी · गरमा-गरम
ढाबा एक्सप्रेस
हाईवे का स्वाद, घर जैसा खाना।
ढाबा एक्सप्रेस · हाईवे किचन
Community Restaurant & menu 16:9

ढाबा एक्सप्रेस — Highway Dhaba Free restaurant & menu digital signage template

A highway dhaba owner runs this on the counter TV: tandoor, sabzi and dal, and the day's special priced in Hindi.

Free, remixable dhaba digital signage for a highway TV: तंदूर, सब्ज़ी व दाल and आज का स्पेशल priced in Hindi on warm charcoal. Edit it in minutes.

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  • dhaba
  • menu
  • special
  • hindi
  • indian
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  1. 1 Create a free account and this template opens in your own workspace.
  2. 2 Change every word, price and photo in the editor, on a phone or a computer.
  3. 3 On the TV, open play.channelos.tv, pair it from your phone with the code it shows, then publish the board to it.

Every slide in this template

5 slides, rendered exactly as they air on a TV.

Every word on these slides is text you can change

  1. Slide 1

    • असली तंदूर · देसी घी · गरमा-गरम
    • ढाबा एक्सप्रेस
    • हाईवे का स्वाद, घर जैसा खाना।
    • ढाबा एक्सप्रेस · हाईवे किचन

  2. Slide 2

    • तंदूर से
    • बटर नान
    • 45
    • तंदूरी रोटी
    • 25
    • लच्छा पराठा
    • 55
    • तंदूरी चिकन
    • 320
    • आधा · मसालेदार
    • ढाबा एक्सप्रेस · हाईवे किचन

  3. Slide 3

    • सब्ज़ी & दाल
    • दाल मखनी
    • 180
    • पनीर बटर मसाला
    • 240
    • छोले मसाला
    • 160
    • मिक्स वेज
    • 170
    • ढाबा एक्सप्रेस · हाईवे किचन

  4. Slide 4

    • आज का स्पेशल · सिर्फ़ आज
    • स्पेशल थाली
    • दो सब्ज़ी, दाल, चार रोटी, चावल, रायता व सलाद
    • पूरी थाली
    • 199
    • ढाबा एक्सप्रेस · हाईवे किचन

  5. Slide 5

    • फिर आइएगा।
    • खुला रोज़ सुबह 9 से रात 11 बजे तक
    • Wi-Fi · dhaba-express
    • ढाबा एक्सप्रेस · हाईवे किचन

What is dhaba digital signage?

Dhaba digital signage is a TV screen at a roadside dhaba that plays the menu and prices instead of a painted or flex board. A television with a modern browser, or a cheap streaming stick, loads the board over Wi-Fi, so rates, the day's special and sold-out dishes are changed from a phone in seconds.

This board runs on

Any screen with a modern browser. There is no media player box to buy and nothing to install: you open a link on the TV, pair it once, and change what it shows from your phone.

It is authored at 16:9, so stand the TV the usual way and the board fills it.

Questions people actually ask

What are the 7 key elements of digital signage?
A working screen setup has seven pieces: the display, a playback source (the TV's own browser, or a stick such as a Fire TV or Chromecast), a network connection, the content itself, a schedule that says when each board airs, a mount at the right height, and a named person who keeps the prices current. At a dhaba the last two are the ones that get skipped. Hang the screen so the middle of the board sits near standing eye level, and put one person in charge of updating rates. A board nobody owns goes stale within a fortnight, and once customers catch it lying about a price they stop reading it altogether.
What is the price of digital signage?
Three separate costs, and only one of them repeats. The screen is the big one-off, and any television with a modern browser will do, because a menu board is read from several metres away rather than inspected up close. The playback device is the second, and it is zero if the TV's own browser opens a web page; otherwise a cheap streaming stick covers it. The third is the software, charged per screen per month, and that is where quoted prices vary most. Count your screens before you compare vendors: one board that never changes its airing times needs far less than a chain. This template is free to remix and run on ChannelOS.
Which dhaba in India is the most profitable?
Nobody publishes audited accounts for individual dhabas, so treat any name you see ranked as marketing rather than fact. What is knowable is what drives the number at your own place. Highway dhabas earn on turnover and on a short list of high-margin items, tandoori roti, dal, chai and cold drinks, rather than on elaborate dishes that tie up the tandoor. Count covers per hour for each daypart for two weeks, then compare the late-night truck window against the family lunch window. Most owners find one daypart is carrying the other, and the fix is usually parking, lighting and opening hours rather than the food.
How do I attract customers to my restaurant?
On a highway the decision is made from the road, so start with legibility rather than offers. The sign trade's rule of thumb is 25mm of capital letter height for every 3 metres of viewing distance, so a price meant to be read from 30 metres needs letters around 250mm tall. Inside, a board earns its keep by answering the two questions asked at the counter: what is ready now, and what it costs. Lead with the day's special and its price, mark sold-out dishes instead of deleting them, and keep the list to what somebody can read in one pass while standing there.

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