Restaurants: Menus and Dayparts

For cafes, tea shops, fast-food counters and restaurants. Start with the existing milk-tea menu template, replace its prices and rotating product images, then add scheduled breakfast and lunch programs if needed.

What you will build

• A persistent store title and price list, so customers do not have to wait for a price to reappear.
• Product images rotating in their own region while prices stay visible.
• A bottom strip for hours or offer details.
• Optional daily switching between breakfast, lunch and a regular menu.

This is the current template preview. Products, prices and names are examples to replace with your own content.

1. Prepare your store content

Content	Example preparation
Title	Our Drinks Menu, or your store name
Two price columns	Start with 4–6 items per column; include names, sizes and prices
Product images	Two images with a shape close to the product-image region
Reminder	Hot or iced available · Large size +3 · Open 08:00–22:00

Prices below are editing examples. Replace them with your store's actual information. Readability from the ordering position matters more than squeezing every product onto one page.

2. Find and use the template

1. Open Template in the Admin app.
2. Choose 酒店餐厅 (hotel/restaurant) and open 奶茶店菜单 (milk-tea shop menu).
3. Check the orientation and regions, then select Use This Template at the bottom right.
4. Wait for your personal copy and confirm it is under My Program. Rename it Store A - Drinks Menu.

These are actual template-preview screenshots. Create your own copy before editing. Catalog program names and content may remain Chinese when the app language is English; use the visible region names below to identify the relevant items.

3. Replace content by region

The example includes 标题 (title), 价格表1 (price list 1), 价格表2 (price list 2), 轮播图 (rotating images) and 滚动字幕 (scrolling text). If the template changes, check both the names and their positions in the preview.

What to change	Select this sub-screen	Then edit
Store/menu title	标题	The text media below the region list
First price column	价格表1	The text in this region
Second price column	价格表2	The other price column
Product pictures	轮播图	Select each existing image and choose your own file; add more if needed
Bottom reminder	滚动字幕	Its text and scrolling settings

The two crops enlarge separate areas of the interface: ① select 价格表1; ② click its text media below the canvas.

For example, enter a short first column:

Classic Milk Tea  Medium  12
Jasmine Milk Tea  Medium  14
Lemon Tea        Large   15
Signature Latte  Medium  18

Use your actual currency, prices and sizes. Check the whole list fits, then adjust text size, line spacing and alignment for the viewing distance. See text media.

Use Contain when labels or packaging details must remain visible. Use Cover only when cropping is acceptable. Avoid stretching product images to a different shape.

Backgrounds and title panels are separate regions; keep them unless you need to change their design. Remove optional areas such as weather from your own copy if unnecessary, and tidy the resulting space. Editing a price does not require deleting the entire price-list region.

4. Rotate images while keeping prices visible

1. Keep or add two images in 轮播图.
2. Set each image's display duration to 10 seconds.
3. In that sub-screen's settings, choose fading or no animation. Start with the default transition duration.
4. Keep Random Play and Fixed Play off to play the list in sequence.
5. Keep one text item in each title/price region. An ordinary menu does not need focus navigation or click-to-fullscreen.

The 10 seconds belongs to the image's display duration. The sub-screen's Slide Duration is measured in milliseconds and controls the transition. See sub-screen settings.

No matching template? Build four regions

Create a landscape 16:9 program with one region, then add the other regions below. This simplified teaching layout does not need to match the real template exactly.

Region	Horizontal range	Vertical range	Content
Title	0% → 100%	0% → 12%	Store/menu title
Price list	0% → 62%	12% → 90%	Multiline text or a complete price-list image
Product images	62% → 100%	12% → 90%	Two rotating product images
Store reminder	0% → 100%	90% → 100%	Static or scrolling text

Use contrasting text and background colors and a little internal padding. Check background A is above 0%; a fully transparent color remains invisible.

5. Save and send to the menu display

1. Preview at least both product images and their transition. Prices should remain visible.
2. End Preview and select Save. Wait for success.
3. Cast to one test Player and check readability and image shape before using more displays.

A single permanent menu can usually use the default play plan. See cloud casting, LAN direct or USB playback as appropriate.

Advanced: breakfast and lunch dayparts

Create separate programs with scheduled casting relations. Three menu images in one region only form a slideshow; they do not automatically become breakfast, lunch and dinner schedules.

Copy or create breakfast, lunch and regular menus. Cast all as main programs, using Append to preserve the other schedules. Open the start/stop/priority settings:

Program	Start	Stop	Priority
Regular fallback menu	No restriction	No restriction	Low
Breakfast	Recurring: daily 06:00	Recurring: daily 10:30	Medium
Lunch	Recurring: daily 10:30	Recurring: daily 14:00	Medium

Breakfast and lunch take precedence in their windows; the regular menu remains available outside those windows. Repeatedly using Replace can remove earlier main-program relations, so append each scheduled menu instead.

Check the Player's time and time zone. First use a short test window to verify both start and stop, then apply the real business hours. See play-plan settings.

On-site checks and price updates

• Names, sizes and prices are readable from the ordering position.
• Images change while the price list stays visible.
• Both price columns and offer terms contain your own current information.
• Regular content remains available outside the breakfast/lunch windows.

For later price changes, edit your personal program, save and confirm the Player has synchronized. Local copies received through point-to-point casting or USB must be sent/imported again. Your copy also does not automatically follow later changes to the original template.