Use cases
Tickers for bars and restaurants
A line of light that tells people what is on tonight, what is £5 until seven, and who is playing at nine. Changed from the manager’s phone in twenty seconds.
The proof: Bob Bob Ricard City
Bob Bob Cité sits in the Leadenhall Building, the Cheesegrater, in the City of London. Dynamo designed and installed a 77 m LED ticker to promote the menu in a font designed in house for the restaurant. The band runs in three parts, two side sections of 21 m and a 35 m section along the front entrance, with each corner a seamless 90° join so the text scrolls round the building without a gap. → Read the project
The restaurant runs Dynamo Ticker on the band today.
What a restaurant ticker shows
- The menu and the special. Type it, switch it on, and it joins the scroll. “Tonight: live music from 8, two cocktails for the price of one until 7” takes about twenty seconds from a phone.
- Happy hour on a timetable. Save the happy-hour look as a scene and schedule it: Monday to Friday, six until seven, then back to the evening menu. The band changes itself.
- A mood behind the words. Live weather for the street outside, a video loop of the kitchen, or a picture made from a sentence for the Christmas menu.
- Headlines and scores for a sports bar, from the feeds you choose.
- Off at close, on at open. Display hours to the minute, overnight spans allowed.
The band
Indoors, a 250 mm band on DX modules at 2.5 to 2.9 mm reads from across a dining room; 1.9 mm where guests sit right under it. Rigid cabinets turn 90° corners without a gap; a flexible band follows a curved bar. Mounted along the ceiling line, above the back bar or across the frontage behind glass. → Indoor LED tickers · Curved tickers
The PC and the phone
A Windows PC in the office drives the band. The people who change the special use the panel on their phone, over the local Wi-Fi or, with the remote control add-on, from anywhere. Nothing is opened on your network.
Cost
Hardware is quoted by length, height and pitch; our own engineers install, nationwide, out of hours. The software is £250 a year per site, VAT excluded. → Prices and quotes
Get a quote
Send the length of the run, where it sits, and whether it is straight, cornered or curved. We come back with a drawing and a written quote.