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Corporate sets the menu. Every store runs it.

A franchisor can mandate and cannot execute. Every screen has to carry what the brand decided, leave room for what the operator legitimately needs, and report back that it happened.

Franchise and multi-unit

Corporate sets the menu. Every store runs it. And you can prove it ran.

A franchisor can mandate and cannot execute. The stores are not yours, the staff are not yours, the equipment budget is not yours, and the brand risk is. So a screen in a franchise network has three jobs at once: carry exactly what the brand decided, leave a defined space for what the operator legitimately needs, and report back that it actually happened. Most signage does the first one.

Three lit menu board screens above a quick service restaurant counter
Corporate decided this board. The store is running it. Brand elements locked centrally, one panel the operator owns, dayparts that change themselves, and a per screen record that it actually rendered rather than that a file was sent.
Autumn LTO · launch 10:30 local
RenderingLateNot rendering
Group
Progress
Stores
State
Since
All stores
214 of 218
Rendering
10:30
Region south
61 of 61
Rendering
10:30
Store 3312
0 of 4
Screen offline
08:14
Store 4108
2 of 4
Old menu
10:31
An offer that started is not an offer that ran. Every screen reports whether it is actually rendering, not whether a command was sent, so a launch is a number you can look at on the morning. The stores that did not take it are a list you can work, rather than a surprise in the quarter.
Menu labelling · effective 05:00
AppliedQueued
Change
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Scope
State
Effective
Calorie figures
Network
Applied
05:00
Allergen statement
Network
Applied
05:00
Price correction
3 states
Queued
05:00
Nothing reprinted
Network
Same night
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The brand carries the regulatory risk, not the store. Labelling and price corrections are changed in one place and rendered next to the item they belong to, in every store, on the night you set. Compliance stops depending on a franchisee getting a board reprinted.
Store 4602 · provisioning
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State
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Adapter powered on
4 screens
Complete
07:02
Identity claimed
Store 4602, region south
Complete
07:03
Brand and menu
Current LTO included
Complete
07:04
Above store visit
Not required
None
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A store opens with its screens already right. New units, refits and equipment swaps happen constantly across a network, and each one is a chance for a store to end up on last season’s board. The screen takes its identity from the network, not from whoever set it up.
A lit outdoor menu screen at a drive-thru order point at dusk
The drive-thru board is the one that cannot wait for a visit. A price change or a pulled item has to be right at every lane tonight, in weather, outdoors, on a screen nobody is standing next to.
A lit screen in a chain restaurant crew room showing a shift brief
The crew room is in the same license. Shift briefs, training and safety notices on the screens staff actually pass, rather than a laminated sheet nobody reads and a video nobody watched.

Why this is not the same problem as a chain that owns its stores

Three differences, and every one of them is a reason the usual answer does not hold.

You can require it. You cannot do it. A corporate team can send a specification to a network and has no way to carry it out in a store it does not staff. The gap between what was mandated and what is on the wall is invisible today, which is why the useful thing is not a bigger send button but per screen evidence that it landed.

The operator pays for the equipment. Which means the equipment has to be theirs. The adapters are bought outright at $50 each and belong to the store, so the screens are an asset on the operator’s side rather than a rental that has to go back when a contract ends. The license follows the screen at $40 per screen per year.

The best operators run more than one brand. A multi-unit operator with units under three brands has to obey three different sets of standards from three different franchisors, on one estate, often from one back office. Brand is a property of the screen here, not of the account, so one operator can run all of it without any brand seeing another brand’s stores.

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Brand elements locked centrally. The local slot is defined by you rather than negotiated store by store.

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Schedule by network, region, trading group, format or a single store, with a start and an end.

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Every screen reports whether it is rendering, so a compliance check is a query rather than a visit.

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Runs on the ordinary connection a store already has. No inbound rules and nothing for a franchisee to configure.

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If the line drops the board keeps showing what it was last told, and catches up when the line returns.

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Casting and priority messaging are in the same license, so a training video in the crew room is not a second purchase.

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Two things included, and a price that stops moving.

  • Ava Display Edge included, on orders of 100 screens or more. Casting and content stay inside the building.
  • Your price is fixed for three years. What you order at is what you pay, and it is published rather than quoted.
Offer applies to orders placed before 31 October 2026. Prices are list; the hold applies to the price you order at.
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A network is where the arithmetic stops being a rounding error.

Four boards in a store and two hundred stores is eight hundred screens. At our published price that is $40 per screen per year, with the hardware owned outright. Put it against what the network pays today, per store, per month, across menu boards, promotions and whatever runs in the crew room.

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