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Food truck digital menu board maker

The brewery yard on Friday night, the Saturday market, a festival with a pitch fee: one kitchen, three different menus. A truck sells fewer lines than a restaurant and sells them faster, so its board gets rebuilt more often than any board in food. It is also the only board whose audience is a queue that can read the whole thing long before it reaches the hatch — which means what you cut from it is what makes the line move.

This is the real player, not a mock-up — a screen would show exactly this.

The PNG is yours, no sign-up. Putting it on a real screen takes an account.

Style

One dish per line — Name, Price. Paste your whole menu if you like.

One dish per line — Name, Price. Paste your whole menu if you like.

Allergens, hours, taxes — the small print at the bottom.

Optional. Drop in your online menu or ordering link and it lands in the corner of the board.

What is a food truck digital menu board?

A food truck menu board is a screen the queue reads from ten feet back, carrying only what this pitch actually sells — a shorter list than the one you ran yesterday.

The board itself is the easy half. The half that decides whether it's worth having is what happens after: who changes the 6pm price, what shows on the second screen, and what the board falls back to when nobody's looking after it. A design tool hands you a file and stops there — Canva, for one, doesn't schedule or manage displays at all. This maker hands you the file too, and then keeps going.

Free, right now

  • Build the board, no account
  • Every cuisine style
  • A QR code on the board
  • Download the 1920×1080 PNG

Needs a free account

  • Show it on an actual TV
  • Change it after it's live
  • Schedule lunch vs dinner
  • Run more than one screen

From a typed list to a lit-up screen

  1. 1

    Type the menu

    One dish per line, name and price. Paste your existing menu straight in if you have one.

  2. 2

    Pick the look

    Fourteen cuisine styles, each with its own palette and board layout. Your menu keeps itself while you try them on.

  3. 3

    Put it on the TV

    Open the board on any screen — a smart TV browser, a stick, an old laptop — and pair it from your phone. No media player to buy.

Other kitchens, other boards

Each one opens the maker with a real starter menu and a palette built for that food — a sushi board and a barbecue board should not look like the same board.

Once the board is built

The maker gets you a board. These cover the parts that come after it: getting it onto a real screen, designing it so it reads from across the room, and what any of it costs.

Put it on a screen

Build a better board

Harder rooms

Questions people actually ask

How do I change the menu when the pitch changes?
Keep a board per pitch instead of one board you keep mangling. A brewery yard at 9pm is drinking and wants something salty; a Saturday market at noon is families, a shorter list and a lower top price. Build each pitch's board once and name it after the pitch, then load whichever one you're parked on. The alternative — rewriting a single board every weekend — is how a price from three weeks ago ends up in front of a paying customer.
Should the board show the queue what's coming, or just what's on?
Only what's on, right now. A truck queue reads the board while it waits, which is the one structural advantage you have over a restaurant — and you throw it away the moment someone reaches the hatch and discovers the thing they spent four minutes deciding on is off. Keep the whole sellable list readable from the back of the line, and keep anything aspirational — next week's special, the winter menu, the dish you're still testing — off the screen completely.
How do I handle a dish I've run out of halfway through a shift?
Change the board when the last one leaves the hatch, not at the end of service. Selling out is not a failure on a truck, it's the proof — but a queue that has already chosen the thing you no longer have is a queue that walks. Mark it sold out rather than deleting the line: a name with SOLD OUT against it tells people you had it and they should come earlier, whereas a name that simply vanishes just leaves the board looking thin.

Your board is built. Now light up the wall.

A screen, a phone, two minutes. Pair a TV, put this board on it, and change the prices from anywhere — including at 6pm, from the pass.

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