I'm not a restaurant so I have a 5 week menu cycle for fall/ winter and spring / summer. This makes it easy to build a Custom Html5 app for yodeck with some help from copilot to massage the meals into a Json file and then a javascript and CSS and index.html with the data in the json embedded. I used to have 106 individual pages in a powerpoint that I exported as a JPG into yodeck and managed. now the JSOn is updated to keep the dates current about once a month. the logis is pretty simple Befor meals and after supper the meals and a disclaimer about different menus for different dietary needs is displayed. 10 - 12 seconds then the next meal and the disclaimer then the meals cycle back around. I use a color background to differentiate as well as the title of the meal. breakfast is a light blur, lunch is a light peachy color and supper is a light pastel green. All are chosen so Black text is easily readable. If this is of interest to anyone just message me back and Ill try to answer any questions. It is easily customizable. I manually go in and edit it for holidays and special meals.
So a typical menu screen will have the day and date, the meal Breakfast, lunch or dinner. I put a horizontal line across to divide the header from the meal items. The meal items are a bulleted list with a word wrap at the end of a word for easier readability.
I think its about 52 or 54 point serif font. Alternate items are a slightly smaller font and italicized. This is done in Javascript.
The json is embedded into index.html something like this:
MEALS_DATA = {
"cycle_length": 35,
},
"cycle_anchor": {
"day": 1,
"date": "2026-07-12",
"rollover_hour": 19,
"timezone": "America/New_York"
},
"initial_start_date": "2026-07-12",
"days": [
{
"day": 1,
"week": 1,
"date": "2026-07-12",
"weekday": "Sunday",
"meals": {
"breakfast": [
"Grits",
"Scrambled Eggs",
"Bacon (2) or Sausage",
"Butter"
],
"lunch": [
"Brown Sugar Meatloaf",
"Macaroni and Cheese",
"Stewed Okra and Tomatoes",
"(ALT) Tossed Salad / Dressing"
],
"supper": [
"Fried Catfish",
"Garnish: Lemon Wedge and Tartar Sauce",
"Red Beans and Rice",
"(ALT) Baked Potato Chips"