Table Tents Speak Without Voices

9.01.09

Table tents promote new and exciting restaurant specials, without actually speaking a word! By utilizing table tents to your full advantage, you are easily creating awareness and bringing about more interest in your restaurant. Advertising what you are offering as customers wait for their meal, has proven to be a very effective and profitable idea. Choose any one of the following table tent variations to effectively attract the most attention and maximize your restaurant's potential profits. Today's table tents vary in size, material and price, but all function in the same informative way. Table tents can be explanatory, some are even decorative, but all are quick and easy to change as frequently as you'd like. By educating yourself on the latest trends out there, you can be sure you are ultimately making the right table tent purchases to guarantee your food service establishment stays ahead of the competition.

A classic table tent is a double-sided easel display that gets its name by closely resembling a tent. Customarily, a table tent is placed on a dining table or counter top for a promotional purpose. Most are fabricated from either clear acrylic, or molded plastic and are typically very inexpensive. Other affordable acrylic table tents include one-sided angled displays, double-sided top loading frames, and T-style holders where back to back menus can be inserted through the bottom of the frames. Standard table tents are essential for busy service areas and are often seen in chain restaurants or on fast food counter tops. Whether your patrons dine in, or take their meals away, table tents are crucial components for strategically marketing your food service establishment.

If you would like to advertise several specials at once, but only have a limited amount of space to work with, a table tent with multi panels is just the thing! Tabletop sign holders with multiple panels are available with as little as two and as many as eight sides to choose from. Several of these menu displays are also fabricated from clear acrylic or plastic, and are usually inexpensive, especially when bought in bulk quantities. Multi fold table tents maximize your promotional impact by informing your guests of several drink or dinner specials, and/or upcoming events, simultaneously. Some multi panel table tents even spin on rotating turntables, creating an interactive, dynamic display with which to occupy your guest's time.

An alternative way to display many menus at one time, is with a flip chart menu roll. Perfect for restaurants and coffee shops, flip chart menu holders allow you to advertise upcoming promotional events, wine lists, or new menu specials in an unobtrusive, yet eye-catching way. Closely related to multi-panel table tents, these impactful tabletop menu holders create an interactive display that patrons can occupy their minds with while they hungrily await their food. Flip charts make it enjoyable for guests to browse through a selection of menus at their leisure. Most flip chart menu holders are provided with clear vinyl sleeves to insert menu cards or advertisements into. Replacements are also available if you need more.

For those of you seraching to add an upscale appeal to your displayed menus, designer table tents are available to purchase. Curved sign holders offered in either a concave or convex presentation, add a sense of depth to an enclosed menu graphic. These curved table tents feature a magnetic "lift up" lens to keep your menu cards or specials in place. Lift the magnetic lens up and place a menu card beneath. It's that easy! This contemporary table tent is designed with a modern looking food service establishment in mind. Magnetic sign holders offer quick and easy graphic changes in a fast-paced dining facility, while adding designer class to set your restaurant apart from your neighbor's. Enhance your own bright, colorful menus and promotional graphics, with a designer table tent.

Keeping up with the latest trends in food service displays can be very beneficial, as well as lucrative, for your dining establishment. Over the years, the table tent has proven to be an inexpensive, yet highly effective method to advertise all you have to offer. Today's table tent market has expanded to include several variations of the "classic table tent", as well as provide many new and exciting designer styles to choose from. The key element to having a successful advertising strategy in your restaurant, or food service establishment, is knowing what types of table tents are most beneficial to buy for your particular restaurant's needs and budget. Make the best possible impact in your dining establishment by employing attention grabbing table tents to speak for you!

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