The board knows what you're out of.
A printed board starts lying the moment the last Bomb Pop goes. This one doesn't. Someone taps once at the counter and every screen agrees: grayed out, struck through, red sash across it.
Here's a skating rink using it: the snack bar at Neville Roller Drome, on two 55-inch screens.
Sold out, the second it's sold out
Not a sign taped over the menu. The item grays, the price strikes through, and a sash goes across it, readable from the back of the line.
Per flavor too: run out of blue raspberry and only that flavor goes, not the whole item.
Out in one tap
Every item has IN, OUT and TIMER beside it, on the iPad already sitting at the counter. The screens catch up on their own.
Timers that clear themselves
Waiting on a fryer? Set twenty minutes. The board counts it down and puts the item back without anyone remembering to.
One tap can take six things with it
Mark nacho cheese out and the hot dog with cheese, the pretzel with cheese and the nachos go out too. Nobody has to know the whole menu.
The log knows who
Everyone signs in with their own PIN, so the record says which person marked the nachos out at seven, not which tablet did.
It doesn't go dark
Each screen runs off its own disk. Lose the internet and it keeps showing the last thing it knew, instead of a blank TV over your counter.
Prices change from the same screen
Put a price up for the weekend and back down on Monday. No reprinting, no vinyl letters, no ladder.
Built for whoever is on shift
One screen with your whole menu on it and three buttons per row. No training and no manual. It opens from the dashboard on the iPad you already have.
What each person can change is up to you: the café can mark items out, only a manager can touch prices.
It shouldn't look the same in October as it does in July.
Backgrounds and characters are how the board stops being signage and starts being part of the room. Pick from the catalog, or have something drawn for your rink.
Characters that skate across the menu
Sprites cross the screen on their own schedule: a mascot, a staff favorite, somebody's dog. Kids watch for them. Custom ones get drawn from a photo.
Birthday banners work the same way. With party check-in, the birthday kid's name goes up on its own.
It all runs on the same dashboard.
The dashboard
One sign-in for the whole business. Each person has their own PIN and sees only what their job needs. People, devices and permissions are managed from here.
See how it worksParty check-in
Today’s parties on the iPad at the door. Guests are tapped in as they arrive and the bill builds itself.
See how it worksWebsites
A site that knows what time it is: today's hours, this month's events and a way to reach you, on every phone.
See how it worksWaivers
In developmentFamilies sign on their phone before they get there. Staff find them by name or scan the pass, and the line keeps moving.
See what's comingParty booking
In developmentParents pick a slot and pay online. Two parties can never land in the same room at once.
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