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Digital Menu Board for Italian Restaurants

An Italian menu isn't a list, it's a sequence — antipasti, then primi, then secondi, then dolci — and a guest orders down that ladder. Flatten it into one long column and you've quietly told the room that the tagliatelle and the tiramisu are the same kind of decision: the primi stop moving, the secondi get skipped, and the table orders a plate each and leaves. A board that works keeps the courses visibly separate, so people can see where the meal starts and where it goes next.

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 italian digital menu board?

Antipasti, primi, secondi, dolci — an Italian digital menu board keeps those four courses in their own columns on the TV, so the screen mirrors how you serve.

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 show antipasti, primi and secondi on one board?
Use the columns as course headers, not as filler. On a single 16:9 screen two columns hold it comfortably — antipasti and primi on the left, secondi and dolci on the right — and you read them left to right in the order the food arrives at the table. If any one course runs long, split the board into a two-slide loop and give each slide its own courses rather than cramming everything into one view. What you must not do is merge them: a guest scanning a mixed column can't tell a starter from a main, and they order one plate and stop.
Can I put the wine list on the same screen?
Put the by-the-glass pours on it; leave the bottle list off. A rosso, a bianco, a prosecco and the house pour fit as a short footer strip or a narrow third block without stealing room from the courses. The full bottle list is a price list, not a course — it belongs behind the QR code or on the table menu, where someone can actually read down it. If drinks matter more than that, give them their own slide in the loop so the food board stays untouched when the wine changes.
How do I show a daily special that changes every evening?
Give the special a permanent home on the board — a "Piatto del Giorno" line pinned at the top of secondi, or its own strip above the columns — so the layout never moves, only the words on that one line. Before service you open the board, edit that line, and send it to the screen; everything else stays exactly where the staff and the regulars expect it. A fixed position is the whole trick: people learn where to look, so the special gets read instead of getting lost among the fixed dishes.

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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