Digital menu screens for cafés — set up in 15 minutes
A digital menu board lets a café swap drinks, dishes and prices in seconds — from behind the counter or your phone — without reprinting anything. Here is exactly how to get one running on any TV in about fifteen minutes with Ambicast.
1. What hardware do you need?
Any TV with an HDMI port plus a cheap streaming stick — an Amazon Fire TV Stick, a Google TV / Android TV box, or even a smart TV browser. There is no proprietary media player to buy and nothing to wire in. If the screen can open a web page, it can run your menu.
2. Pair the screen
Install the Ambicast player (or open the player URL in the TV browser). It shows a six-character pairing code. In your dashboard you type that code once and the screen is claimed to your account — no IT, no accounts on the TV itself.
3. Choose the menu template
Start from the café menu template and make it yours: drop in your items, set prices, add a logo and a photo or two. The drag-and-drop editor works like design tools you already know, so there is no learning curve.
4. Update from your phone
Sold out of the special? Open Ambicast on your phone, change the line, and the screen updates over the air within seconds. Schedule a breakfast menu to switch to lunch automatically at 11am if you like.
Frequently asked questions
No. Any TV with an HDMI streaming stick (Fire TV, Google TV, Android TV) or a smart-TV browser works. There is no dedicated media player to buy.
From the Ambicast dashboard on any phone or laptop. Edit the item, and the change appears on the screen over the air within seconds.
The player keeps showing the last published menu from its offline cache, so the board never goes blank during a brief outage.