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Best Digital Menu Boards for Quick-Service Restaurants: WAND Digital vs Raydiant

Digital menu boards are now table stakes for small and midsize business owners and operators in the fast casual and quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry. For franchisors and franchisees who are ready to make the investment in digital menus for drive-thrus and indoor service, we’ve pulled together comparisons of the best platforms on the market for QSRs. In this article, we’ll compare WAND Digital’s menu system and Raydiant’s.

Best Digital Menu Boards for Quick-Service Restaurants: WAND Digital vs BrightSign

Comparisons, Technology

Whether it is to build your brand, drive sales or engage customers, digital menu boards help fast casual and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) hit their goals. In this article we’ll compare a few key solutions and features of WAND’s digital menu platform with BrightSign’s to help you choose the best digital menu platform to outfit and run your store, cafe or cafeteria with.

Best Digital Menu Boards for Quick-Service Restaurants: WAND Digital vs NCR

Comparisons, Technology

Digital menu boards for fast food restaurants, or quick service restaurants (QSRs), and fast casual restaurants are a must-have for the best customer experience and to scale your business. But with an array of technology to pick from, how do you choose the best digital display software and hardware for your franchise? In this article we’ll compare a few key features and offerings of WAND’s digital menu board platform with NCR’s

Digital Menu Kiosk Case Study: Chartwells at University of Chicago

Case Studies

Meet Devin Davis, Senior Marketing Manager, Chartwells Higher Ed, University of Chicago and WAND Digital client. Devin is an innovator on a mission to make UC the top academic dining experience in America. We're just happy to play a role in his story and help him along the way. But don't take our word for it, hear what he has to say about the efficiency of WAND Digital menu technology 😉

Why It’s Time to Go Digital with Drive-thru Menu Boards

Technology

Fast-food drive-thrus are nestled in Americana snugly between baseball and apple pie. Since 1947, drive-thrus have been a staple in how hungry travelers eat on the road, and their value in the fast-food and casual restaurant industry has only strengthened over the past 75 years. Drive-thru menu boards and technology have evolved and adapted to changing consumer behaviors and technological advancements, and they now provide a meal and an experience without ever forcing folks to leave their cars.

3 Ways to Measure Your Campaign Success with Digital Menu Technology

Best Practices

You have committed to the investment of digital menu technology. You have menu boards installed and running in your restaurants. You have poured all of your creativity and resources into your content. Now it’s time to see if all your effort was worth it.

A tall rack of baked bread loaves underneath five vertical video menu screens showing soups and sandwiches.

5 Design Tips When Switching to Digital Menu Boards

Best Practices

Many restaurants are making the switch from static menu boards to Digital Menu Technology to establish menu clarity, amplify the customer experience, and increase sales. During this transition, it is likely that restaurant owners may seek the help of an external design agency to create and manage their digital menu board content.

A brightly lit Cinnabon storefront showing white countertops, two glass display cases, and three digital menus hung overhead.

Digital Menu Boards: The Secret Weapon for Restaurant Sales

Growth & Scaling

Although technology will never completely replace the need for a humans in QSR and fast-casual restaurants, digital menu technology can greatly assist your current salesforce with many aspects of the sales process including driving additional sales and boosting overall profits.

A full view of a Haagen-Dazs storefront including customers, dipping cabinets, and video menu displays hung on a back wall.

6 Ways to Convert Millennials Using Digital Menu Signage

Best Practices

Millennials go out to eat more than any other generation, so many restaurants are looking for ways to accommodate this growing demographic. With millennials soon topping the list of those with buying power, many very successful franchises are capitalizing on this group’s eating habits.

Two people are ordering at an Auntie Anne's counter as a vertical digital menu is in the foreground.

Digital Menu Case Study: Church’s Chicken of New Mexico

Case Studies

When Carolyn Conner, a franchise owner for Church’s Chicken in New Mexico, noticed that sales at each of her four locations had stagnated, she knew it was a problem she needed to address quickly. Part of the problem, she believed, was that her employees struggled with upselling at the cash register despite the time and effort she poured into training them to do so.

Two people standing in front of a Church's Chicken counter while placing an order with a cashier.

Restaurant Menu Strategy: Static Vs. Digital Menu Boards

Growth & Scaling

The battle is over and the winner is clear. Digital menu boards are tremendously more effective at driving sales and scaling operations than static menu boards.

A stainless steel quick-service restaurant counter lined with bins of ingredients with three horizontal digital menus in the background.

WAND Increases Major Deli Concept’s Average Order Value by 6%: A Digital Menu Case Study

Case Studies

WAND conducted a test with a major deli concept to show the impact of our unique technology and creative solution. The sales results were measured across over 70 locations with half utilizing WAND’s digital menu technology and creative design, and half using static menus.