A menu board is the hardest-working sign in a restaurant. It answers the first question every customer has, it moves the line, and it quietly steers people toward the items you most want to sell. A board that is hard to read, out of date or badly lit costs you orders every single day.
Global Signs & Graphics designs, fabricates and installs menu boards for restaurants, cafés, bakeries, food halls, ghost kitchens and drive-thrus across Greater Los Angeles — from a single printed panel behind the counter to multi-screen digital systems and weatherproof outdoor boards. Everything is made in our Pacoima shop and installed by our own team.
Restaurant menu boards, menu board design, backlit menu displays and digital menu boards for cafés, restaurants and quick-service kitchens across Los Angeles.
Opening a new restaurant, updating prices, or replacing a board that has faded?
Printed Menu Boards
Printed panels on rigid acrylic, aluminum or PVC, mounted behind the counter or on the wall. The most economical option, easy to update by swapping a panel, and printed with your photography and brand colors at full resolution.
Backlit & Lightbox Menu Boards
Illuminated boards with printed translucent faces that glow evenly from behind. They read clearly in dim dining rooms and at night, and the faces can be reprinted when the menu changes without replacing the frame. Available flat, curved or as a set of matching panels.
Digital Menu Boards
Commercial-grade screens and LED displays that let you change prices, run daily specials and switch from breakfast to lunch on a schedule. We supply and install the hardware and mounting; you control the content from a laptop or phone.
Counter & Wall Graphics
Large-format graphics on the counter front, the wall behind it or the whole serving area — photography, illustration and menu content combined into one branded surface. Ideal for cafés, dessert shops and fast-casual concepts.
Window & Promo Boards
Window graphics and changeable promo panels for seasonal drinks, new items and offers. Printed on removable vinyl or as slide-in panels, so you can refresh the message every month without touching the main menu.
Los Angeles restaurants compete on speed and on Instagram. A menu board has to do both: be readable from the back of the line in under five seconds, and look good enough that people photograph it. That comes down to hierarchy, contrast, lighting and photography — not decoration.
We design boards around how your customers actually order: your best sellers at eye level, your highest-margin items with photos, and combo pricing that is obvious at a glance. Then we build them to survive steam, grease, cleaning products and the California sun.
If your restaurant is part of a chain with 20 or more locations, federal menu-labeling rules require calorie counts on the menu board alongside each item. Smaller independents are exempt, but many choose to include allergen or dietary icons anyway. We design boards that carry that information clearly without cluttering the layout.
For drive-thrus and outdoor ordering, boards need weatherproof construction, anti-glare faces and lighting that works at night. Digital boards in exterior locations need brightness rated for daylight and enclosures rated for heat. We specify all of that up front so nothing fails in the first summer.
Send us your current menu and a photo of the space, and we will come back with a layout and a price.
Whether you are planning a monument sign for a single business, commercial property, medical center, office campus, shopping center, or multi-tenant development, our team can help determine the appropriate next step.
Tell us about the space, the menu and how often it changes. We recommend printed, backlit or digital based on how you operate, not on what costs most.
We measure the wall or counter, check power for illuminated or digital boards, and confirm sightlines from where customers actually queue.
Boards are designed with your photography and brand, proofed for approval, then printed and built in our Pacoima shop.
Our crew installs outside your service hours where possible, connects illuminated or digital boards, and leaves you with a working menu the same day. Need a custom menu board for a new location? We build menu boards in California for restaurants of every size, so send us your menu and counter size and we will quote restaurant menu signs to fit.
Whether you are opening your first location, refreshing a tired board or moving to digital across several sites, we handle design, fabrication and installation as one job. Global Signs & Graphics is a licensed California sign contractor based in Pacoima, working with restaurants, cafés and food businesses across Greater Los Angeles. Send us your menu and a photo of the space for a free consultation.
A printed panel on rigid board or acrylic is the most economical option. It is also the quickest to replace when the menu changes, which is why many independent restaurants start there.
Printed suits menus that change a few times a year and budgets that need to stay predictable. Digital suits menus that change daily, dayparting between breakfast and lunch, and chains that want one update pushed to every site. Many restaurants use both: printed for the core menu, a screen for specials.
Yes. We design the layout, hierarchy and photography placement so the board sells, then build it. If you already have a designer, we will work from their files.
For small changes we supply matching price stickers or replace a single panel. For bigger changes we reprint the face; the frame or lightbox stays in place.
Yes. Weatherproof printed and backlit boards for patios, walk-up windows and drive-thrus, and exterior-rated digital displays with daylight brightness and heat-rated enclosures.
Under federal rules, chains with 20 or more locations must show calories on menu boards. Independent restaurants are not required to, though many add dietary icons voluntarily. We can build either into the layout.
Printed boards are typically ready within a week of approved artwork. Backlit and digital boards take longer for fabrication and hardware, usually two to three weeks depending on size.
Yes. We keep your specifications on file so every new location gets the same board, and we can roll out an update to all sites at once.
