Does it take care of the SFDA caffeine and salt rule for us?

Partly. We add the caffeine line and salt icon to your Saudi templates during setup, and you decide which dishes carry them. The rule itself is the SFDA’s.

Do calories have to be on Dubai menu boards?

It depends on your outlet and Dubai Municipality’s current guidance; check with them. The calorie field is there today if you show calories.

Can a branch manager mark a dish sold out?

Yes. Switching a dish off in the menu takes it off every board that reads that menu. If each branch needs its own sold-out list, we give each branch its own menu during setup, and its manager can only touch that one.

What if the branch internet drops?

The boards keep playing what they have stored, and pick up changes when the connection is back.

Can we use the screens we already have?

Usually, yes, with a Windows or Android player behind them, or a commercial Samsung or LG screen. Non-Windows players need a one-off licence per screen from the player’s maker. We check your models in the first call.

What counts as a screen?

Each display with a player connected in a month. Logins for your team are free.

Digital Menu Boards for Gulf Restaurants

Two Emirati customers order at the counter of a grill and shawarma restaurant in Deira under a row of menu screens showing grills and mandi.

Industries · restaurant and café chains

For grill, shawarma, coffee and bakery chains with 3 to 40 branches in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jeddah. Mindcat Screens puts every counter, drive-thru and window screen on one menu: Arabic and English side by side, dirhams in Dubai and riyals in Riyadh, breakfast to dinner by the clock, and the iftar menu in Ramadan on the time you set for each city. Hosted in the UAE or the Kingdom, from AED/SAR 49 a screen a month.

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A digital menu board for a Gulf grill restaurant: Grills and مشويات, Rice and Wraps and أرز وساندويشات, with Mixed Grill, Shish Taouk, Lamb Kofta, Chicken Mandi and Lamb Kabsa in English and Arabic at AED prices. — The Deira grills board as it plays: English and Arabic, prices read from the menu.Real screen, sample data

Where menu boards go wrong

A restaurant worker stands on a step stool reaching behind a wall screen showing a blank blue input screen, chairs still stacked on the tables. — Before opening: a staff member on a step stool at the back of the menu screen, USB stick in hand.Illustrative photo

01The weekend of USB sticksThe new price list goes out on Thursday. Branch managers swap sticks over the weekend, and on Sunday the Olaya branch still shows last week’s combo at the old SAR price.

02Ramadan boards go up lateThe start date waits for the moon sighting. Then the iftar menu has to be on every counter at sunset and the suhoor menu after 22:00, every day for a month.

03Caffeine and the salt icon in Saudi ArabiaSince 1 July 2025, restaurants and cafés in the Kingdom must show caffeine content and a salt icon for high-salt items on paper and electronic menus (Saudi Food and Drug Authority).

04The mandi that sold out at nineIt stays on the board until closing, and the cashier explains it to every customer.

One edit, every branch

From the new price to every counter, without a branch visit.

A 9-branch grill and mandi chain in Deira, JLT and Olaya raises the Chicken Mandi on a Thursday.

01Marketing leadEdits the price onceAED 42 to 45 in the UAE menu, SAR 42 to 45 in the Saudi menu.On: Menu boards
02The systemEvery board updatesCounter, drive-thru and window boards read the new price in Deira, JLT and Olaya within minutes.On: Display groups
03Branch managerMarks it sold outAt 21:00 the mandi comes off the boards that read that menu, with one switch.On: Menu board products
04Operations managerChecks the screensThe Olaya drive-thru shows out of date, so someone checks the player before the Thursday-night rush.On: Displays

A price feed from Foodics or your POS and the caffeine line on Saudi boards are set up for you during setup. Everything else works on day one, as long as the screen is online.

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Real screens

Captured from our own running copy with invented sample data. Names and prices are not real.

“Every board is designed twice, once per language.”
One board in Arabic and English
The designer places Arabic right to left beside the English, with prices read from the menu, so nobody retypes a price on a board.
Used by
Marketing, your designer
On screen
The Deira grills board with five dishes in both languages and a Mixed Grill for two offer.
Designer: one board, both languages.
“The breakfast board stays up until a barista remembers.”
Breakfast to suhoor, by the clock
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, iftar and suhoor as named windows, reused across every branch.
Used by
Operations
On screen
Breakfast 06:00 to 11:00 (karak, eggs and manakish), Iftar 17:30 to 20:30, Suhoor 22:00 to 03:30.
Dayparts: the Gulf day, named once.
“Ramadan menus go up late every year.”
Iftar, prayer breaks and summer windows
The iftar set menu and a back-after-prayer screen at the times you set for each city, and a portrait offer in the street window.
Used by
Marketing, operations
On screen
Family iftar for four at AED 149, back after prayer in Arabic and English, and a summer coolers window offer.
On the screen: the boards your branches show in Ramadan and summer.
“A drive-thru screen goes black and nobody knows for two days.”
Every branch screen in one list
Up to date or out of date, logged in or not, and the board each screen is showing.
Used by
Operations, IT
On screen
Nine screens in Deira, JLT and Olaya; the Olaya drive-thru out of date.
Displays: find the black screen before a customer does.

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Three chains, before and after

Deira, the Dubai malls and Al Khobar.

Invented chains in real districts.

01A 9-branch grill and mandi chain in Deira, JLT and OlayaBefore: the price list goes out by email on Thursday and Olaya shows the old combo on Sunday. After: one edit in the menu, every counter screen updates in minutes, and the Riyadh boards show riyals with the caffeine line.

02A coffee chain with 14 kiosks in Dubai mallsBefore: the breakfast board stays up until a barista remembers. After: every kiosk switches from karak and breakfast to lunch at 11:00, and to the iftar menu at 17:30 in Ramadan.

03A shawarma brand with drive-thrus in Al Khobar and JeddahBefore: a drive-thru screen goes black on Thursday night and head office hears on Saturday. After: the displays list shows it out of date, and the operations manager gets an email.

Built for Gulf restaurants

What is ready today, and what we add during setup.

01Arabic and English on one board, AED and SAR menusToday.

02Calories, allergy notes and sold outToday, as fields on each dish.

03Caffeine content and the salt icon on Saudi boardsAdded during setup in your Saudi templates. Which dishes carry them is your call.

04Iftar and suhoor menusToday, as dayparts. Ramadan dates are set ahead and moved after the moon sighting.

05Back-after-prayer screensToday with fixed times per city. A live prayer-time feed is added during setup. Whether a branch pauses is your choice.

06Prices from Foodics or your POSAdded during setup, through the API.

بالعربية

For restaurant chains in Riyadh and Jeddah, in Arabic.

شاشات المنيو لسلاسل المطاعم والمقاهي في السعودية والإمارات

غيّر سعر الصنف مرة واحدة، فيظهر السعر الجديد على شاشات المنيو في كل فروعك خلال دقائق، بالعربية والإنجليزية.

يظهر منيو الإفطار والسحور تلقائيًا في رمضان، وتظهر شاشة «نعود بعد الصلاة» في وقت الصلاة حسب مدينة كل فرع، دون الحاجة إلى زيارة الفرع.

نستضيف بياناتك في الإمارات، أو في جدة أو الرياض إذا اخترت نسخة خاصة. وتدفع لكل شاشة شهريًا بالريال أو الدرهم، وكلما زادت شاشاتك قلّ سعر الشاشة.

What it costs

Per screen, in dirhams or riyals, falling as you grow.

AED/SAR 49 a screen for the first 10, 35 for screens 11 to 50, 25 for 51 to 200 and 19 above that. A 9-branch chain with 3 screens a branch runs 27 screens: 10 × 49 + 17 × 35 = AED 1,085 a month on the shared option, plus a one-time setup of AED/SAR 7,900. Player software is free on Windows media players; Android, Samsung and LG screens need a one-off licence per screen from the player’s maker, at cost.

FAQ

What restaurant owners ask first.

Does it take care of the SFDA caffeine and salt rule for us?: Partly. We add the caffeine line and salt icon to your Saudi templates during setup, and you decide which dishes carry them. The rule itself is the SFDA’s.
Do calories have to be on Dubai menu boards?: It depends on your outlet and Dubai Municipality’s current guidance; check with them. The calorie field is there today if you show calories.
Can a branch manager mark a dish sold out?: Yes. Switching a dish off in the menu takes it off every board that reads that menu. If each branch needs its own sold-out list, we give each branch its own menu during setup, and its manager can only touch that one.
What if the branch internet drops?: The boards keep playing what they have stored, and pick up changes when the connection is back.
Can we use the screens we already have?: Usually, yes, with a Windows or Android player behind them, or a commercial Samsung or LG screen. Non-Windows players need a one-off licence per screen from the player’s maker. We check your models in the first call.
What counts as a screen?: Each display with a player connected in a month. Logins for your team are free.

The brief · one email

Tell us your screen count and where your branches are.

The honest no: if the work is a software factory with a named delivery date, we are the wrong partner.

Digital menu boards that change in every branch when you change the price once.

Four things that put the wrong price on a Gulf menu board.

From the new price to every counter, without a branch visit.

Digital menu boards and the screens behind them.

One board in Arabic and English

Breakfast to suhoor, by the clock

Iftar, prayer breaks and summer windows

Every branch screen in one list