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Food & Drink, LIfestyle

Affordable LED’s Take-Out Sign

— Contributed by Paige Smith-Vasquez

My husband and I own a small food business that offers Filipino food. The business was great, but the pandemic happened. I didn’t want to close the restaurant for good, so my husband and I decided to temporarily stop accepting dine-in orders and just focus on take-out orders.

We did announce this decision on our Facebook page, but people still kept coming hoping to dine in our restaurant. I knew we had to get a take-out sign.

I made one using a piece of cardboard and Sharpie, but it had a short life when it rained. Definitely a bad choice of materials for an outdoor sign. The husband suggested we get a LED sign.

We discovered Affordable LED, an online shop of programmable LED signs and lighting fixtures. And yes, they have the perfect sign we need, the take-out sign.

Affordable LED’s take-out sign was the perfect size at 27×15.” It had an incredibly bright display that is very visible even at noon.

Take-out sign from Affordable LED

Its best features are:

  • Super easy to set up – It’s easy to install, you just need to find a good spot to hang it and plug it in.
  • Uses low power – It only uses 10 watts of power!
  • Safe to use – It has a low voltage operation, not hot to the touch, and also environmentally friendly.
  • Long-life – LEDs are known to have long lives so this is definitely a good investment.

We currently use a painted sign for our small restaurant, and when this pandemic’s over, we’ll definitely be getting a new one with LEDs. We also plan to spruce up the place with LED light strips, which we also plan to get at Affordable LED.

If you’re a food business like us in need of a take-out sign or any scrolling LED sign for that matter, I highly recommend AffordableLED.com. They were open for business even during the quarantine period, and online transactions are pretty fast.