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MenuLead
Digital Menu Board

A digital menu board for small restaurants and food trucks that lives in a single HTML file — no POS to integrate, no account, no monthly fee. Open it on a tablet or a TV, add your categories, prices and photos from local files, and press Board view. Untick an item to 86 it, edit a price and the screen updates live. Built to run offline on whatever screen you already have.

Live Tool Single HTML File Offline-First Tablet or TV No POS Needed Photos from Local Files Print / PDF No Subscription Vanilla JS · Zero Deps Optional Pro · CA$27
Live Preview

The Board, Running Live

This is the actual app — not a screenshot. The frame below loads it straight from the server. Load the sample menu, edit an item, hit ▶ Board view and see it fill the screen.

jedcomtech.com/menulead

Desktop — 1280 px

Mobile — 390 px

Under The Hood

One File. No Backend. Nothing to Break.

Your whole menu — categories, prices, photos, colours — is saved to the browser on that device. Copy menulead.html onto a USB stick and it runs on the counter tablet with the Wi-Fi unplugged — the same on Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, a TV stick or an old iPad. Nothing to log into mid-service.

Try It Yourself

Live Board — Full Window

Try File ▸ Load sample menu▶ Board viewEsc back⚙ Settings

Use File ▸ Load sample menu for a food-truck menu to play with, then press Board view. Nothing is sent anywhere — edits live only in this browser and clear when you do. Best experienced in its own tab.

jedcomtech.com/menulead/menulead.html
Open the board in a new tab ↗
How It Works

On the Wall in Four Steps

From a blank screen to a menu board a customer can read across the room — a few minutes, no design software.

1

Name the place

Type your restaurant or truck name in the header and add a logo in Settings. Set the currency symbol while you're there.

2

Add items

Make a category (Tacos, Drinks…), then ＋ Add item for each dish — name, price, an optional description, and a photo from a file on that device.

3

Set the look

1–3 columns, dark or light, an accent colour to match your branding, photos on or off, and an auto-rotate time for a TV.

4

Board view

One button fills the screen. Drag it to your TV or leave it on the tablet — it updates the moment you edit an item or 86 something.

What's Inside

Every Feature, Purpose-Built for a Small Room

No plugins, no page builder, no framework. One hand-written HTML file of vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript — open it and go.

01

Categories & Items

Group dishes into sections, add each with a name, price and optional description, and reorder anything with ▲▼.

02

Photos from Local Files

Pick a photo from the device for any item. MenuLead resizes it and stores it in the menu file itself — nothing is uploaded.

03

Full-Screen Board View

Big type, category headings, dotted price leaders, your logo and a footer line for hours or wifi. Made for a mounted tablet or a TV.

04

Brand It

Restaurant name and logo, currency symbol, 1–3 columns, dark or light theme, and an accent colour that sets headings and the Special tag.

05

86 an Item in One Tap

Untick Available and it drops off the board instantly; re-tick it when it's back. Nothing is deleted, and prices update live.

06

Specials

Flag a dish as a special and it gets a tag on the board. (Pro adds a scheduler so specials show only on the right days.)

07

Auto-Rotate for a TV

Set a number of seconds and a long menu scrolls itself, top to bottom and back, so a wall screen is never stuck on one section.

08

Sample Menu

One click loads a full food-truck menu so you can see the board, the Special tag and the layout before typing your own.

09

Print / Save as PDF

The same menu as a clean printable sheet — a paper menu or a takeaway handout straight from the browser's "Save as PDF".

10

Works Offline · Autosaves

Every category, price, photo and setting persists to the browser via localStorage as you type. Reopen tomorrow, it's all there.

11

JSON Backup

Save menu (.json) keeps the whole menu — photos included — as one file, and Open menu… loads it on a second screen.

12

Private by Design

Runs entirely in the browser on that device. No sign-in, no cloud, no tracking, no POS account — your menu stays on your own screen.

Optional

MenuLead Pro

One-time · CA$27 · nine add-ons · per venue · free updates
QR-code table orderingA printable QR per table; guests tap to build an order — no POS, no card reader. Needs the menu hosted so guests can reach it.
Orders inbox, summary & CSVLive order list, today's count and revenue, one-click CSV export.
Kitchen ticket + chimeA new order beeps and pops a print-ready 80 mm ticket for the pass.
Multi-language toggleA second and third language per item, on the board and the order view.
Dietary & allergen tagsV, VG, GF, DF, nuts, spicy — shown as chips on the board.
Sizes & add-onsPriced options per item; the order flow prompts the guest to choose.
Sold-out / low-stockA count per item — "3 left" badge, auto-86 at zero, one-click daily reset.
Menu by daypartCategories that only show at breakfast / lunch / dinner, switching by the clock.
Board style presetsClean · Chalkboard · Diner · Neon · Café — one click sets the whole look.
Item editor showing dietary tags, priced sizes, add-ons and stock tracking
Dietary tags, sizes, add-ons & stock
Guest order screen after scanning a table's QR code
Guest order screen (from the table QR)
Orders inbox showing a live order and a Ticket button
Orders inbox & CSV export
Printable 80mm kitchen ticket
Printable kitchen ticket
Board style preset — Diner
Board style — Diner
Board style preset — Neon
Board style — Neon
How It Compares

Against the Usual Digital-Menu Options

Most small rooms either pay a monthly menu or signage service, rebuild a slide deck for every price change, or take a revenue cut on QR ordering. Here is where a single-file tool lands next to them.

Option Cost Model Notes
QR-menu SaaSHosted service $19–49 / month per location Subscription + account Polished, but the menu goes dark if you stop paying, and you're editing it inside someone else's dashboard
QR ordering + payments platformHosted $0 upfront · ~2–4% per order Free tier, revenue share No monthly fee, but a cut of every ticket forever and a payments account to set up and reconcile
Digital-signage appCloud CMS $10–25 / month per screen Per-screen subscription Great for a chain with an IT person; heavy and pricey for one tablet on a food-truck window
Slides on a USB stickPowerPoint / Canva $0 – included Rebuild the deck each time Free and offline, but no item logic — every price change or sold-out item is a manual edit to a slide
MenuLeadSingle HTML file — this project $0 to run · optional CA$27 one-time Pro None — open menulead.html Nothing to install or subscribe to; the board itself runs offline on any screen with a browser, live 86 / price edits, one-file backup. Pro QR ordering has no per-order cut, but needs the menu hosted somewhere guests can reach it from their own phones

What the paid options also tend to cost

  • A monthly fee per location that never ends, and a menu that stops working if a payment fails: $230 – $590 / year
  • A percentage of every QR order, for as long as you use the platform: ongoing revenue share
  • A separate subscription for each additional screen — counter, window, kitchen: multiplied monthly

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