Case Study: Davanni’s Pizza and Hoagies achieves heightened customer attention and stronger menu promotion with NEC Display Solutions

Davanni’s whets customers’ appetites with NEC Display Solutions LCD monitors

Davanni’s Pizza and Hoagies, a Minnesota fast-casual chain with 21 Twin Cities locations, needed a way to promote a slate of new menu items to customers who typically order the same favorites. To break through the visual clutter at the counter, they turned to NEC Display Solutions and tested large-format digital signage using 30" NEC LCD3000 and 40" NEC LCD4000 monitors.

NEC Display Solutions’ LCD3000 and LCD4000 screens, installed alongside menu boards and run with Alive Promo slideshow software, significantly increased customer attention and engagement—diners were drawn to the moving food images and messages. Positive reactions led Davanni’s to add another LCD3000 in Savage and upgrade to a 40" LCD4000 in St. Cloud, with plans to standardize on the 40" for future installs; the displays also enabled targeted, time-of-day promotions and even personalized greetings, demonstrating measurable impact through expanded rollouts and stronger customer response.

Davanni’s Pizza and Hoagies

Mick Stenson

Owner