Your tap list, flipping like a station board.

A tap list changes the moment a keg blows, and a printed one is wrong before it is dry. Digital signage for bars solves that badly when it is a slideshow and well when it moves. Split-Flap TV turns a screen above the bar into a split-flap board, so the list flips as you change it and people look up when it does.

Split-Flap TV runs on any screen you already own, so you can put a live cocktail menu behind the bar and a rotating tap list by the door for a fraction of the cost of a mechanical board. It's the retro-terminal atmosphere craft drinkers love, on hardware you don't have to buy or maintain.

A tap list goes stale faster than any other board in hospitality. A keg blows mid-service, the guest beer lands early, and the board on the wall is wrong for the rest of the night. That is the actual problem, and it is why so many taprooms end up back on a chalk marker: whatever is on the wall has to be changeable by whoever is behind the bar, right now, without finding a laptop. Change a price behind the bar, run happy hour on a schedule.

So the workflow matters more than the feature list. Change a line from your phone while you are still standing at the cellar door, and the board flips before the next customer reaches the bar. Prices, ABV, the name of the brewery, all of it edits the same way. Staff pick it up in about a minute, which matters when the person covering a Friday shift is not the person who set the board up.

Happy hour is the other thing worth automating. Set the prices to change at five and back again at seven and the board handles it, so nobody has to remember during the busiest part of the day, and nobody argues at the till about what the board said ten minutes ago. The same applies to a quiz night board, a food service window, or last orders. build the list once.

Cocktail bars are a special case, and there's a longer read on them: craft drinks, retro vibes and a board that flips. The drinks list changes as often as the bartender does, and print never keeps up with that.

The atmosphere is not a side effect either, it is most of why people put one in. The flip is the thing customers notice and photograph, and a split-flap board reads as considered in a way a bright menu screen does not. Because it runs on a TV rather than a mechanical board, you can have one behind the bar and one facing the street for a fraction of what a single physical board costs. It runs on a screen you already own, from €19.99 a month per screen, with a seven day free trial and no card. See how it works, or read how it compares to buying a physical board.