Industry guide: Restaurants

Introduction

Restaurants and cafés are one of InfoBox's most common customer types. Typical screens: a menu screen at the entrance, a counter screen showing daily specials, a back-of-house screen for staff communications. This guide collects the patterns that work.

What restaurants typically display

Common content types:

• Lunch menu: today's offering, scheduled to display only during lunch hours.
• Daily specials and seasonal promotions: rotated weekly or monthly via a campaign playlist.
• Drinks and beverage campaigns: from Sinebrychoff ContentHub or your own designs.
• Hours and contact info: a steady-state slide that's always visible.
• Customer flow (table reservations open / fully booked / waitlist): for restaurants with active table management.

Integrations to use

Restaurant-friendly integrations:

• Lounastaja: the easiest path for daily lunch menus. Edit in Lounastaja, the screen updates automatically. See Lounastaja integration.
• Sinebrychoff ContentHub: drink-campaign content for Sinebrychoff partner restaurants. See Sinebrychoff ContentHub integration.
• Canva: for brand-aligned weekly specials and seasonal promos. See Canva for content creation.

Scheduling pattern: lunch menu

The single most-used scheduling pattern in restaurant signage:

• Build a single lunch-menu slide (Lounastaja iframe or your own design).
• Schedule it: weekdays only, daily 10:30-14:00. See Per-weekday time windows for restaurants with weekend hours.
• Set Hide for the staff-only break-room slides during the same window so customers don't see them.
• Pair with a Saturday brunch slide that runs only on Saturdays 11:00-15:00.

Multi-location restaurants

If you run more than one restaurant:

• Build the campaign content as a playlist (not on each screen individually).
• Assign that playlist to every location's screen via Assigning playlists to screens.
• Update the playlist once, every restaurant updates at once.
• Use Screen Groups for permission scoping (regional managers see only their region's screens) but NOT for content broadcasting. See Screen Groups (permissions, not content).

Marketing-site reference

Deeper marketing-side guidance:

• Industry landing page: infoboxi.com/fi/infonaytto-ravintolaan
• Blog deep-dive: Infonäyttö ravintolaan, opas

Summary

Restaurants get the most out of InfoBox by combining Lounastaja for menus, scheduling for lunch-hour-only display, and playlists for multi-location campaigns. Skip Screen Groups for content; that's not what they do.