From a nail salon price list to a dentist’s waiting room, an estate agent’s window to a café counter — screens that update in seconds, work while you’re closed, and are sized and priced for a single site, not a national chain.
Recent hospitality industry research (Tillster, 2025) found 61% of consumers now want more self-serve kiosk ordering, and three in four said they ended up spending more than they’d planned once they used one. For a small café, takeaway or clinic reception, that’s a case for freeing up a counter or a receptionist — not necessarily for a full bank of kiosks like a national chain would run.
A digital window screen turns a static poster into changeable marketing space, visible to passing footfall whether you’re trading or closed for the night — swap a promotion, a listing or a special in seconds rather than reprinting and re-taping a sheet of paper to the glass.
Update pricing, specials or a treatment list from a phone or tablet the moment it changes — no laminate, no reprint run, no waiting for a supplier call-out to fix a typo the day before a price rise.
Screens are increasingly treated as advertising space in their own right — supermarkets now rent shelf-edge and window screens to national brands, and self-serve retail media platforms are starting to let small local advertisers (a nearby dentist, an estate agent, an insurance broker) buy space with no minimum spend. If a screen’s already doing a job for you, there’s often a case for it earning a little extra too.
We size and price every project for a single site first — whether that’s your only site or your first of several. Managing a shopping centre, retail park or town centre instead? See our Shopping Centres & High Streets page.
Self-serve ordering, a drive-through digital menu board if you have one, and price boards that update the moment a supplier cost changes. (Running a full-service restaurant or bar instead? See our Hospitality, Restaurants & Bars page.)
Waiting-room and reception screens for practice information, appointment reminders and patient education — sharper than a noticeboard, and one less thing to print.
Queue and wayfinding screens, prescription-ready notifications, and window space for health campaigns or seasonal promotions.
Treatment and price lists that update in seconds when you add a service, plus ambience screens by the chair or in the waiting area.
A window that shows live listings around the clock, updated from the office the moment a property comes on or goes under offer — no reprinting a card for the window display.
Service menus, walk-in wait boards and simple promotional screens, sized for a single chair or a full salon floor.
Shop and window screens, in-store menu boards and price displays — configure exactly what you need and see a live price before you talk to anyone.
Window screens, menu boards and advertising displays, configured for your exact space — the price updates as you build it, and hardware can be ordered straight away.
Use our Get an Estimate tool for a quick ballpark across any solution, or go straight to the shop if you already know the hardware you want — every order is backed by our engineers either way.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0845 095 3600 or email av@efficient-is.co.uk — we’ll give you a straight answer, not a sales script.
Which screens actually earn their keep for a single-site business, and which are solving a problem you don’t have.
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2 min read →Sometimes — and sometimes a simple digital menu or ordering screen does the same job for less. Kiosk demand is real (recent industry research puts consumer appetite for them at an all-time high), but that data mostly comes from multi-till, high-volume counters. For a small café or clinic reception, we’ll usually start by asking what’s actually slowing your counter down before recommending hardware that size.
No, but it’s a smaller list of businesses than kiosks — independent coffee shops, bakeries and pharmacies with an existing drive-through window are the realistic fit. If you don’t have a drive-through lane already, a digital menu board indoors usually earns its keep faster.
No — standard digital signage content management handles practice information, appointment reminders and patient education content just as well as retail promotions. The screen and the software are the same; only the content changes.
Potentially, on a longer view. A handful of self-serve retail media platforms now let small local advertisers buy screen space with no minimum spend, and some independents simply sell space directly to a complementary local business — a dentist and a nearby optician, for instance. It’s not a reason to buy a screen on its own, but worth knowing once you already have one.
A single indoor screen with a year’s content management typically starts from around £410–£1,200 supplied and installed; a single window screen starts from around £950–£1,650 depending on size and whether it needs to be readable from both sides. Use our configurator for a live price on your exact setup.
Yes — we can schedule installation around your trading hours where needed. This is common for retail and hospitality projects and we’ll plan it into the quote from the start.
Yes — order one screen now and add a second, a window display or a full multi-site Digital Signage network later. Nothing about starting small locks you out of scaling up.
Tell us what you’re trying to fix and we’ll tell you honestly what’s realistic — and what size of screen you actually need.
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