# Vermillion — Fine Dining & Wine > Free, remixable fine dine restaurant digital signage for any TV. Shows a numbered tasting menu, wines by the glass, a chef's note and reservations. Source: https://channelos.tv/t/vermillion-fine-dining-wine-faca0726-201b-494a-b8e8-f17f67473ba4 Category: Restaurant & menu Shape: 16:9 (landscape) Slides: 5 Author: Community Showcase (community) Price: free --- ## What is fine dine restaurant digital signage? Fine dine restaurant digital signage is a TV screen inside an upscale restaurant that runs the menu, the wine list and house notices as software rather than print. One display shows a numbered tasting menu, wines by the glass and reservation details, and the kitchen edits any price from a phone. An upscale restaurant or wine bar runs this 16:9 board: tasting menu, wines by the glass and reservations. ## 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 5 - Seasonal tasting · cellar list - Vermillion - A tasting menu written by the season. - VERMILLION · fine dining & wine ### Slide 2 of 5 - Five courses · 95 per guest - 01 - Oyster & Cucumber - dill oil, sea vegetable - 02 - Hand-Cut Tartare - aged beef, egg yolk, brioche - 03 - Roast Turbot - brown butter, samphire - 04 - Dry-Aged Duck - cherry, salsify, jus - VERMILLION · fine dining & wine ### Slide 3 of 5 - By the Glass - Champagne Brut - 18 - Sancerre, Loire - 14 - Barolo, Piedmont - 22 - Tawny Port, 20yr - 16 - VERMILLION · fine dining & wine ### Slide 4 of 5 - From the pass - “We cook what the market gave us this morning — nothing more.” - — Elena Marchetti, Head Chef - VERMILLION · fine dining & wine ### Slide 5 of 5 - Reservations - Dinner, Wed – Sun - Seatings 6 & 8:30 · book ahead - reservations@vermillion.co - VERMILLION · fine dining & wine ## Frequently asked questions ### What are the different types of signage that restaurants use? Most restaurants run four or five at once: a fascia or exterior sign, a pavement A-frame, window vinyl, wayfinding for the washrooms, and the menu itself. The menu splits again into printed cards on the table and a digital menu board on a screen. The useful split is by how often the words change. Anything fixed, such as the address plaque or opening hours, stays printed. Anything that moves, such as the tasting menu, the wines by the glass or a sold-out dish, belongs on a screen where one edit reaches every display. Size the type by the room: the sign trade works to roughly 25mm of capital letter height for every 3 metres of viewing distance. ### What is the best theme for a fine dining restaurant? Pick a dark ground, one metallic or wine accent, one display face for headings and one clean face for prices, and stop there. Dining rooms are lit low, so a near-black or deep bordeaux ground with warm brass type reads better than white with black type, which glares at the far tables. Keep the small text, the dish descriptions and the prices, at a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 against the ground, the same floor the web accessibility guidelines set for body text. Hold each screen to six or eight lines so a guest can read it standing. Right-align the prices with tabular figures so the column lines up, and leave animation off during service. ### What is the best display menu board for a restaurant? Any television with a modern browser, or a plain screen with a browser stick behind it, will run a menu board. The decision is the room, not the badge. Size it by viewing distance, working to about 25mm of capital height per 3 metres, so a board read from 9 metres wants roughly 75mm capitals. Choose 16:9 landscape for a seated dining room or a back bar, and 9:16 portrait for a queue, where names read faster in one column. Commercial panels are the safer buy where a screen runs all day, since they are built and warranted for longer duty cycles than a domestic television. Match brightness to the light in the room and keep the wine list out of direct sun. ### How can I create a menu board? Write the dishes and prices in the order you want them read, then cut each screen to six or eight lines. Set the screen shape before you design anything, because 16:9 gives you two columns and 9:16 gives you one, and that decides how long a dish name can be. Size the type from the furthest table you actually seat, then paint it: one ground, one accent, prices right-aligned. When a dish runs out, mark it sold out rather than deleting the line, so the price survives and the row comes back tomorrow. This board is free and remixable in the ChannelOS editor, and a change reaches the TV without anyone touching the screen. ## How to use it 1. Open https://channelos.tv/t/vermillion-fine-dining-wine-faca0726-201b-494a-b8e8-f17f67473ba4 and press "Use this template". Create a free account and the template opens in your own workspace. 2. Change the words, prices and photos in the editor, from a phone or a computer. 3. On the TV, open play.channelos.tv in its own browser, pair it from your phone with the code it shows, then publish the board to it. 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. Free screens show a ChannelOS banner along the bottom of the screen. Any paid plan removes it.