Mike & Denise’s
Pizzeria, Bar & Grill · 728 E Veterans Pkwy
mikeanddenises.com
Early partner · promoting
For high-end restaurants · ~$150+ average guest check
Your best guests
Your best guests
can’t see the menu.
Guests over fifty squint at paper in a beautiful, dim room. Easy Light Menu puts a leather-folio lit iPad in their hands — backlit, pinch-to-zoom like a phone, and when they tap an appetizer they see the dish move, not a static photo.
Ship only. Plug in, charge overnight, open the URL. Yorkville · Naperville · St. Charles first.
Early partners
Friends who are all in
Local owners promoting Easy Light Menu — buying as many as they can, as fast as they can, for lit menus in this new day and age.
Bristol Tap
Mike & Denise’s Bristol Tap · 46 N Cannonball Trl, Bristol, IL
Famous Bristol Burger since 1988
Early partner · promoting · Demo menu
The Vault
Yorkville · tablet sample on this site
Open demo menu
Early partner · sample / demo
From the floor
What Mike & Denise say
“Our regulars over fifty were squinting at paper menus in the dark. Easy Light Menu fixed that overnight — backlit, pinch-to-zoom, and when they tap an appetizer they actually see the dish. We’re buying as many as we can, as fast as we can. This is the new day and age for light menus.”
“Steve’s one of our best friends, and this product is the real deal. Guests stop asking for a flashlight. Prices change by email. We love Easy Light Menu and we’re all in.”
Attributed with permission. No star ratings or invented numbers.
The guest problem
Paper fails at $150+ checks
- Guests 50+ can’t read tiny type in a properly lit dining room.
- They won’t order the special they can’t see — and they won’t ask twice.
- Flashlight-on-phone is an embarrassment for a high-end table.
- Still photos don’t sell the plate the way motion and service do.
- Reprints when beef moves overnight — still illegible when they arrive.
The product
Backlit. Zoom. Motion. Service.
- Leather-folio lit iPads — hospitality, not a kiosk.
- Pinch-to-zoom like a phone so older eyes can enlarge type instantly.
- Tap an appetizer → smoking / animated dish, not just a still.
- Short professional clip: a well-dressed waiter setting a beautiful place (candle and all).
- Email updates — subject = restaurant name. No owner IT.
On the tablet
Built for the room you run
Motion
Dish comes alive
Tap the appetizer — see heat, steam, finish. Not a flat JPEG.
Service clip
Place setting
Short clip of polished service — candle, linen, the standard you sell.
Aa
Pinch-to-zoom
Same gesture as a phone. Guests 50+ enlarge type without asking the server for a flashlight.
Nested drinks → martinis, dish photos, weekend events / bands — yes at launch. In-menu ads: optional path so menus can help pay for themselves in about years 1–2 (estimate, not a guarantee).
Optional · families
Quiet kid games on the same locked iPads
When parents are dining, the folio iPad can offer a short, curated set of calm games for kids — same locked device, same table, no phone handoff. Optional add-on. Premium rooms stay quiet; kids stay occupied.
- Runs on your locked lit menus — no extra tablets to buy.
- Curated, low-noise games — not a carnival arcade.
- Parents finish the meal; kids stay at the table.
- You turn it on only if it fits your room.
Selling point
Families book you again
High-end rooms still get the leather folio and the lit menu. The games sit behind a simple kids path so the dining room never looks like a playroom — just a quieter table.
Optional add-on. Ask when you apply.
Same iPads · your list
Guest contact & marketing on the menu
The lit menu is also how you own the relationship — email, cell, reviews, and specials — without mailing paper or renting someone else’s ads.
Collect
Email and/or cell at the table
- Guests leave email and/or cell on the same iPad they used for the menu.
- Offer: text the bill or email the bill — their choice.
- You build your guest database — not a third-party list.
Market
Specials go digital only
- Coupons, drink specials, food specials — by email or text.
- No more mailing paper. Faster, cheaper, tracked.
- You talk to people who already ate with you.
After the meal
Soft ask: review + free gift on a future visit
After they pay, a quiet prompt: leave a review, then get a free gift next time they’re in. More reviews. More return visits. Your owned list — not spam from someone else’s ad network.
- More public reviews without awkward staff asks.
- A reason to come back (gift on a future visit).
- Owner benefit: repeat business and a list you control.
Starter · 10 tables
$4,000 to start. Then $150/mo.
Pay in full before we start — no financing, no 50%. Restaurant keeps the iPads forever.
- 10 lit menu iPads (folio, tethers, dock share): $3,000
- Menu setup: $1,000 · Total $4,000
- Then $150/mo Live Menu · website +$300 setup / $300/mo
- Also: $295/unit · 2-unit pilot $650–$675 + scaled setup
$4,000
starter · paid in full
$150/mo
Live Menu · or $300/mo with website
Ready for lit menus?
High-end rooms first. We’re building with partners in Yorkville, Bristol, Naperville, and St. Charles — owners who treat the partnership clean.
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