’s Selects as its Digital Menu Board Partner
’s is installing Outdoor Digital Menu Boards in all 87 drive-thru locations.
’s Big Boy restaurants and announced a partnership to replace existing static printed menus with Digital Menu Boards. By the end of Summer 2021, the bright, engaging Outdoor Digital Menu Boards from will serve guests in 62 locations, with the remaining 25 ’s drive-thru locations to receive Digital Menu Boards in the months that follow.
In six locations, the brand also is running a pilot of the Drive-thru Director timer system. Besides measuring and reporting speed of service to team members and managers, and encouraging friendly inter-store competition to speed up service times, Drive-thru Director integrates with the DMB platform to coordinate the timing of full-screen takeovers of the drive-thru menu boards. When there is no drive-thru traffic, all three screens combine to become a ‘billboard’ of sorts to run an ad for the latest promo or LTO, for example. The full-screen takeover can capture the attention of passersby and even encourage foot traffic and sales between the typical crunch times.
’s partnered with because the company wanted to give guests a more engaging, modern experience, and help speed up drive-thru service times.
“Our menu offerings don’t exactly match either the traditional QSR or casual dining concepts, with a lot of our menu items made-to-order,” says Alison O’Keefe, Vice President of Marketing for ’s. “To take some of the pressure off speed of service, we hope that having digital menu boards in place brand-wide will help us refine the menu and steer guests toward quick-prep options, reducing wait times, and ultimately giving guests a better experience.”
O’Keefe said she has three primary goals for implementing the menu boards:
- Refine the drive-thru menu, iteratively, to increase speed of service and incremental sales, including experimenting with late-night options.
- Increase order value through suggestive selling. “Even though we know our team members do this, the DMBs reinforce it, visually, with high-resolution graphics and animation,” said O’Keefe. “And if the team member does happen to forget, the DMB does suggestive selling automatically.”
- A lot of testing and learning including things like market pricing, dayparting, menu offerings, promos, and suggestive sell tactics.
’s selected based on the two companies’ long-standing partnership as well as built-in integrations between the POS and the menu board platform. Long before selecting for ODMBs and Drive-thru Director, ’s used a Point of Sale solution.
About ’s Big Boy
Frisch's Big Boy is a regional Big Boy restaurant chain with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. For many years a Big Boy franchisee, in 2001, Frisch's became the exclusive owner of the Big Boy trademark in Indiana, Kentucky, and most of Ohio and Tennessee. Learn more about .
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