NyteBoard · by Nightly Slate

Your specials, your events,
your brand — on every screen, updated by a text.

NyteBoard turns any TV or phone into a stunning, always-current display for your restaurant. Just tell Slate what changed — it updates everywhere, instantly.

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Free onboarding · 30-day free trial · Unlimited screens

The Origin

Built by a restaurant worker who saw a need.

NyteBoard was created by someone who lived the grind — who watched managers wrestle clunky tools, stale menus, and chalkboards nobody ever updated. He wanted to bring something better home to restaurants: a way to keep guests in the know effortlessly, while making every place feel polished, current, and unmistakably professional.

That's the whole idea behind NyteBoard — real tools, built by someone who's stood behind the bar and knows exactly what a busy night demands.

Meet Slate

Your menu, in plain English.

Just tell Slate what changed — right from your phone — and every screen updates in seconds. No logins for staff, no clunky editors, no waiting on a web person.

Add Taco Tuesday — $2 off tacos.
Start happy hour.
Add live music this Friday.
SlateDone — updated on every screen. ✓

It brings your whole team onto the same page and keeps guests in the know — effortlessly.

No agency required

Stop paying a marketing team to change a price.

Agencies, freelance web developers, design retainers — restaurants burn hundreds a month just to keep a menu current. With NyteBoard there's nothing to outsource. If you can send a text, you can run every screen. Anyone on your staff can update specials, swap a photo, or launch an event in seconds — no training, no invoice, no waiting on anyone.

What you no longer need

A marketing agency on retainer
A freelance web developer on call
Monthly design fees
Waiting days for a simple change

What you do instead

Text Slate in plain English
Anyone on your staff can do it
Every screen updates in seconds
Zero training, zero invoices

Keep the marketing budget for the things that actually fill seats — your screens run themselves.

Everything it does

One board. Every possibility.

Layouts for every screen

Landscape TV boards, vertical screens, auto-scrolling, split-view (menu beside photos), and a clean single-column made for phones. One menu, perfectly shaped to any display.

Unlimited screens

Bar, patio, drink specials, kitchen — run as many as you want. Never pay per screen. Billed simply, per location.

QR codes for everything

Every menu and calendar gets its own QR. Guests scan to view on their phone, or link it from your website. Print it, table-tent it, done.

Weekday special templates

Set Monday-through-Sunday specials once. Today's automatically shines while the rest wait in the wings — guests always see what's on tonight, with zero daily effort.

Happy Hour banner + green glow

Flip happy hour on and a banner sweeps your screens with NyteBoard's signature green glow, right on your schedule — an unmistakable, upscale cue the moment the deals go live.

Event calendar, weeks ahead

Post live music, trivia, and private events far in advance, each with its own poster. Guests scan one QR and browse your whole calendar — keeping your clientele in the know like never before.

Staff announcements, on every phone

Post an update from your dashboard and it lands on your whole team's phones — a new special, an event, even a soup change the moment you make it. Everyone stays in the loop, no group text required.

Portrait or landscape, automatic

Design your board once and it fits the screen it lands on — wide landscape TVs and tall wall-mounted displays alike, chosen automatically. No second version to build, no rework.

Your own mini website, built in

Spin up a clean mobile site for your restaurant — menus, hours, and links in one place, ready to share. Guests tap it right from your phone menu and find everything. Available as a simple add-on.

And more: themed to your brand, photo slideshows, and weather-reactive ambiance — all built in.

Studio in your pocket

Studio-quality photos. No Photoshop, no designer.

Snap a photo of tonight's special and NyteBoard lifts it clean off its background in a single tap — right on your phone, in seconds. Drop the polished cutout straight onto your board, a slideshow, or an event poster. It's the kind of tool restaurants pay a designer for — and it's built right in, free, with every plan.

Right in your browserOne tapUnlimitedNo designerNo monthly software
The same beer with its background removed — a clean cutout on a transparent canvas
The original photo of the beer on a busy bar top
BeforeAfter

Drag the slider — watch the background lift away, leaving a clean cutout ready to drop anywhere.

Advanced Layout Builder

Menus like the big corporations — at your fingertips.

Want a menu that looks like it came straight out of a professional marketing team's workshop? With our drag-and-drop Layout Builder, that polish is yours — no extra cost, no designer required. Drop text, photos, and live menu blocks anywhere on a free-form canvas and build a custom display that makes your business look every bit as professional as the national chains. The possibilities are at your disposal.

TextPhotosShapesLive menu blocksBackgroundsCustom fonts

A guided, step-by-step tutorial is on the way — but it's built to be simple enough to start today.

See inside

Take a peek before you sign up.

No mock-ups, no smoke and mirrors — here are real screenshots from inside NyteBoard. This is exactly what you'll be working with, so you know what to expect the day you start.

A finished NyteBoard menu on a TV — specials, a big food photo, and a live happy-hour banner

What your guests actually see

A finished board on the TV — your specials, your photos, a live happy-hour banner sweeping across the bottom. This is the polished, always-current display working the room for you.

The NyteBoard dashboard — Slate the assistant, menu sections, and the settings panel

Your whole setup, on one screen

Slate on the left, your menu sections in the middle, and your settings on the right. Title, logo, theme, and layout all live in one place — nothing buried, nothing complicated.

The drag-and-drop Advanced Layout Builder canvas with menu blocks and photos

Design like the big chains

The Layout Builder is a free-form canvas — drag text, photos, and live menu blocks anywhere you like. It’s how you get that corporate-quality look without hiring a designer.

Settings panel with a menu QR code guests can scan to view the menu on their phone

A QR code guests can scan

Every menu gets its own QR code. Print it, table-tent it, or link it from your site — guests scan and browse your menu right on their phone. Flip on happy hour from the same panel.

Check it Out →Want the full tour? Walk through every screen, one at a time.
Why it matters

NyteBoard brings your team, your restaurant, and your guests together — keeping everyone in the know, and making your place look effortlessly professional.

How it works

Live in three easy steps.

01

Free onboarding

We set everything up with you — your brand, your menus, your screens. No cost, no hassle.

02

Point a screen at it

Aim any TV or tablet at your NyteBoard — or simply share the QR code. It just works.

03

Tell Slate what changed

Text Slate in plain English. Every screen updates in seconds. That's it.

Need something custom?

Don't see exactly what you need? We'll build it.

If something in the app doesn't quite fit how your business runs — but you know there's a need to fill — fill out the contact form anyway. The developer behind Slate will personally reach out to help build the right tool for your business.

Tell us what you need
Book your demo

Ready to make your restaurant unforgettable?

Free onboarding. 30-day free trial. See it live.

Free onboarding · 30-day free trial · No obligation