Menu Board System

As part of my work for Joey's Franchise Group in 2015, I developed a digital menu board system. This system allowed our head office to remotely manage the menus and pricing for roughly 15 Joey's Urban restaurant locations.

The menuboards were operated through Raspberry Pi mini-computers that ran a custom Linux image which initiated a headless browser instance that loaded a specific panel for each restaurant. Each location had roughly three digital menu boards which had unique items and pricing across them.

Remote management was achieved through a VPN mesh network that assigned a single Raspberry Pi as the primary local node which then made data available to the other local nodes which connected to it. This reduced the number of VPN connections required to our central server and allowed the menu boards to more easily cache data locally in case of network issues in the restaurant.

Skills: React, Express, MySQL, Docker, Ansible