INKDASH
Cafés & Restaurants · 2026
A proposal for cafés & independent restaurants

A quiet menu,
a calmer service.

E-Ink for the floor & the back-of-house
Presented by
Otherlink · London
10 minutes
→ Pilot in your café
InkdashFor Cafés & Restaurants
01 · The Problem
The hours that vanish into paper

Menus go stale.
Allergen sheets go missing.
Fridge logs go un-signed.

01
Reprinting menus
Every time a dish changes, every time a price moves.
02
Specials boards
Smudged chalk. Yesterday's price still on display.
03
Compliance binders
Fridge temps, allergen sheets, signatures — somewhere in a drawer.
04
Staff notices
A pinboard the team stops looking at after week two.
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InkdashFor Cafés & Restaurants
02 · The Product
A small panel. Paper-quiet.

One device,
one dashboard.

An e-ink display the size of a notebook page. Mounts on a wall, sits on a counter, or clips to a fridge. Updated from a web dashboard, anywhere.

Display
7.5″ · paper-grade contrast
Power
USB Type C- and  on a battery
Network
Works without your wifi
Manage
Web · phone · CSV
Inkdash · Otherlink
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Today · Tuesday
07:00 · open
The Larder
Café
Drip · today
Ethiopia · Yirgacheffe
Pastry · 09:30
Almond croissant
Soup
Leek & potato
Wifi
larder · welcome2026
At the door
A welcome that updates itself.
InkdashFor Cafés & Restaurants
03 · How It Works
One dashboard. Every site.

You change a price once.
Every site updates by lunch.

Step 01
Sign in
From the kitchen office, your phone, or anywhere with a browser.
Step 02
Edit the menu
Change a dish, an offer, an opening hour. Save.
Step 03
Push everywhere
Pick which displays — front-of-house, fridge, bar, both sites.
Step 04
It's live
The display refreshes silently. No staff, no apps, no shouting.
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InkdashUSE CASE · I
04 · The Menu
Counter · window · pass

The chef changes the menu.
The room already knows.

Lunch menu in by 11. Today's bake on the counter. The chalkboard, retired — and never wrong again.

·
Allergen marks always current — pulled from the recipe sheet.
·
"Sold out" tags pushed straight from the till.
·
Dinner service writes itself: scheduled refresh at 17:30.
Lunch · Tuesday
11:30 · live
Squash & sage soup v · gf
£8
Smoked trout, caper butter
£14
Lamb shoulder ragu
sold out
Chocolate & olive oil cake
£7
Allergens
v · vegan  gf · gluten-free
Updated 11:28
by chef · A. Reyes
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InkdashUSE CASE · II
05 · Centralised Offers
One control panel · every site

Push happy hour to every café,
at exactly 17:30.

Group nights, loyalty offers, late-opening hours, weekend specials — set them once, schedule them, and let every site light up at the same minute.

Schedule
Set once · runs forever
Target
All sites · or just one
Brand
Locked typography & layout
Audit
Who pushed what, when
Happy Hour · Tonight
17:30 — 19:00
Two for one,
house wines.
Glass
Picpoul · Chianti
Bites
Olives · whipped feta
Active in 6 sites · pushed 14:02 by GM
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InkdashUSE CASE · III
06 · Staff Notice
The pinboard, retired

Today's rota. Tonight's specials.
The briefing note.

One quiet board at the pass. Updated when the rota changes — no app to install, no posts to ignore.

·
Rota for the shift, with cover requests highlighted.
·
Daily reading from the chef — what's on, what's 86'd.
·
Acknowledgement on phones — required reading, signed off.
Pass · Tuesday
briefing · 16:00
Tonight
Pre-theatre table for 8 at 18:00. Mr. Holloway's birthday — candle on the rhubarb.
Floor
17:00
A. Reyes · M. Khan · S. Otieno
3 covers
20:00
+ J. Park · L. Bell
5 covers
86'd tonight
Lamb · oysters · last 2 souffles
Read & signed
5 of 5 staff
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InkdashUSE CASE · IV
07 · Fridge & HACCP
UK Food Hygiene Regs · the law, not a nice-to-have

The temp log
writes itself.

Logging fridge temps is a legal requirement — most kitchens still do it on a clipboard. A probe in the fridge, a display on the door, an audit trail in the cloud. The day the EHO walks in, the binder is already perfect.

One failure
£500 – £2,000
stock loss avoided
EHO ready
Monthly PDF
signed & timestamped
Out of range
Pings your phone
before the stock turns
Payback
One fridge fail
covers the year
Fridge 03 · Larder
12:00 · logged
4.1°
Range
1.0° – 5.0° · within
06:00
opening · M. Reyes
3.4°
09:00
delivery · A. Khan
3.8°
12:00
midday · S. Otieno
4.1°
Next reading · 18:00
Auto-export to compliance
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InkdashUSE CASE · V
08 · Reports & Documents
Everything · in one folder · online

Every reading, every signature,
kept & shareable.

Allergen sheets, supplier specs, fridge logs, staff acknowledgements, opening checklists. Captured on the displays, stored in the cloud — searchable, dated, exportable.

Stored
Stored in dashboard · UK food law
Searchable
By date · site · author
Sharable
PDF · CSV · auditor link
Permissioned
Owner · GM · chef · staff
inkdash.io / dashboard / reports
April 2026
The Larder · monthly compliance
HACCP-04-2026
Fridge log · 6 units
signed
ALLG-04-2026
Allergen matrix · v.18
chef
OPEN-04-2026
Opening checks · 30 days
complete
BRIEF-04-2026
Staff briefings · 28
4/4 read
SUPP-04-2026
Supplier specs · 14
current
Auditor link · expires 14 days
Send to inspector →
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InkdashWhy E-Ink
09 · Why E-Ink, for F&B
Paper-quiet · glareless · cheap to run

A screen that looks like the menu,
not the airport.

No glow
Reads like print
No backlight in the dining room. No screen-shine on the wine.
Two-year battery
No cabling
Stick it where it's needed. Replace the cell at the next deep clean.
LTE built-in
Works without your wifi
When the router goes down — service doesn't.
Multi-site
One place to manage
Café, bar, dark kitchen — all from one tab in your browser.
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InkdashFor Cafés & Restaurants
10 · Next Steps
A two-week pilot, no commitment

Three displays.
One fortnight.

We'll mount 1 units — front-of-house menu, fridge log, staff pass. Set up the dashboard with your team. Walk away after two weeks if it doesn't earn its keep.

Pilot
£0 · 14 days · 1 displays
If kept
£15 / panel / month
Setup
Tuesday morning · 90 min
Cancel
Any time · we collect
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Book the pilot
Shall we drop in
on Tuesday?
Site
inkdash.io
Email
info@otherlink.io
Phone
+44 07946436185