Take your menus digital in a flash with XOGO.

Still printing your menus? Let’s make your life a little lot easier.

Hospitality can be a hard business. In addition to building menus and pricing, keeping fresh ingredients in stock and juggling schedules, your restaurant (or bar, café, food truck) needs to communicate your branding, menus and pricing effectively to your customers. There's little time to reprint things every time that a menu changes or an item is out of stock. There's where digital signage really shines.

A flexible, cloud-based digital signage platform like XOGO allows hospitality managers to send food and beverage menus directly to their media players, or to play them back from URLs that can be updated in real-time. Here are just a few of the reasons to consider using XOGO for your digital menu boards.

Works with Static Menus

When you upload an image or video into your playlist via XOGO Manager, it automatically gets cached on any media running that playlist. That means that the menu will keep playing on-screen even if the media player device loses its Internet connectivity. This is important for locations with spotty WiFi or limited Internet connectivity, and for menus that don't need to change everyday due to ingredients running out or prices changing. Not a graphic designer? We partner with PosterMyWall, who offer thousands of beautiful 16:9 and 9:16 menu templates that can quickly be edited for your business and uploaded into XOGO Manager.

Works with Online Menus, Too

Restaurants and cafés with frequently-changing menus might consider building their menus on a webpage (or a PosterMyWall dynamic template) and then using XOGO to display that menu's URL. In this case your menu is not cached on the hard drive of the media player but whenever you make changes to the menu on your webpage or in PosterMyWall, those changes are immediately reflected on all of your XOGO screens as well. That way when you run out of chicken tacos, you can remove them from the menu in seconds and go back to taking orders. It's as easy as crossing an item off a white board, but more elegant.

Runs on Screens & Tablets

Our affordable XOGO Mini Max media player can be plugged into nearly any screen, so many users can leverage the screen hardware that they already have on-hand. XOGO Player can also be installed directly onto many tablets and smart TVs. Small or large, tablet to TV, XOGO gives you the ultimate flexibility regarding the form factor and placement of your digital menu boards.

Update from Anywhere

XOGO runs in the cloud, so you can update your playlists in XOGO Manager (from anywhere) and your XOGO screens will receive the playlist updates in real time via the Internet. For busy hospitality industry managers, this means that you can update your screens in seconds from your iPhone, or ask someone in the back-of-house to update your menus while you pay attention to your guests.

Make Your Menus Interactive

A stark contrast from printed videos or chalkboards, digital signage allows you to leverage attention-grabbing videos in your menus. Imagine a steak house whose logo and menu are overlaid upon a background video of a slow-motion sizzling steak or a dolly shot of a freshly-poured Manhattan; it's far more compelling than a printed menu and allows for easier up-selling. You can even incorporate QR codes into your digital menu boards; for instance, to allow your guests to browse your full menu online, to place their order online, or even to sign up for your email list in order to receive a coupon code.

Affordable

XOGO's affordable pricing and free technical support allow the platform to grow with you. Get started for free with a single media player, and use it for as long as you'd like. When it's time to unlock additional features or add more screens, just upgrade to a XOGO Pro subscription. It can be paid monthly or annually, and allows you to create unlimited content and playlists, to use premium features like single-sign-on, and to receive discounts in return for referring your friends and colleagues. Not an IT professional? No problem. All XOGO customers (both free and paid) receive free email-based technical support from our friendly team. We'll get you up and running in minutes so you can focus on your core business.

Summary

Digital menu boards are an amazing solution for restaurants, bars, cafés and food trucks. They are easy to create and can be updated in real time via the cloud. They run on affordable screen / media player hardware, including tablets. Most importantly, they make it possible to leverage videos in your menus to grab viewers' attention, and QR codes to make your menus interactive. Please contact us via the form below if you'd like to discuss how to use XOGO for YOUR digital restaurant menus.

Take-Aways

• Digital menu boards can be quickly and easily updated via the cloud

• Digital menus can be displayed on standard TV hardware, digital sandwich boards or even tablets

• Leverage slow-motion videos in your digital menus in order to make then more attention-grabbing

• Leverage QR codes in your menus in order to make them interactive - even link guests to online ordering or coupons

• XOGO is your affordable, easy-to-use signage platform for digital menu boards at restaurants, bars and cafés