Halloweed Menu Carving Contest
Halloween is always an exciting time of year for cannabis retailers. Like any retail operation, there is a lot of preparation and energy that goes into seasons, special days, and holidays. For the cannabis community, Halloween is a very important and very fun day.
This year, here at BudSense, we didn’t want to miss out on the fun, which is why we are hosting our second annual "Halloweed Menu Carving Contest”.
Now, if you’re new here and missed out on the "Halloweed Menu Carving Contest” last year, have no fear, we are here to provide the instructions so you can join in on the fun and start carving out your cannabis menus.
Cannabis Menu Carving Contest for Halloweed
To give you a little context as to what the Halloweed Menu Carving Contest is, the Halloweed Menu Carving Contest is a competion where retailers use BudSense to build and design a Halloween menu for a chance to win a prize. This year, we decided to divide up our Halloween Menu Carving Contest into two different cannabis menus.
Product Menu
Marketing Menu
Cannabis Product Menu
Halloween Menu Carving Contest - Product Menu Scare Card
As you can see in the Halloweed Menu Carving Contest Scare Card - which is what we will be using to score your menu designs, these are your opportunities to earn points to win the Halloweed Menu Carving Contest prize.
Here are some links to the different BudSense features and how to build them into your dispensary menus.
1. Cannabis Menu Features
Here at BudSense, we encourage you to try out all the BudSense features so you can select the ones that best align with your cannabis retail operation, merchandising, and brand. Here are some ways you can earn points for using different features on your cannabis menus.
Menu Title
The cannabis menu title is widely considered the most essential part of the menu—Itʼs what your customers will see first and what informs them on what's for sale. If you can draw their eye, you can help satisfy customers quickly and maximize their basket size. Menu Titles are also a great way to bring some flavour to your menus and communicate your brand identity to your customers.
To customize the size or color of your title text boooo-gie on down to the 'Additional Options' on the menu editor page and change the font colors as you see fit!
Add a spooky cannabis menu background!
Menu Background
Changing up cannabis menu backgrounds with images or videos is a highly effective way to engage your new and recurring customers. Plus, selling weed is supposed to be fun! Customers appreciate the effort you put into making their experience as unique as possible.
Section Title
Section title customization is similar to menu titles but for sections. Menus are built using a group of sections that display products. The most common example is a Menu Title 'Flower' with 'Sativa,' 'Hybrid,' and 'Indica' sections.
Badges
Badges are a great way to visually emphasize important product information without cluttering your digital cannabis menus or print cannabis menus. Think of badges as an icon or emoji used to emphasize a product detail, such as a staff pick or edible flavor.
Take Advantage of Our spooky Pre-loaded Holiday Badges on your cannabis menus!
Labels
Labels communicate product information to customers on your cannabis menus, often answering their questions before even speaking with a budtender. You can change the color, text, and even add custom labels to emphasize all of your spooky snacks on your dispensary menus.
Section images
Section images are a great way to add some flair to your cannabis menu. Since your cannabis customers love visuals adding images is a great way to communicate product information in a visually appealing way on your dispensary menu.
Insa, a cannabis dispensary brand found in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida really gets into the spirit of Halloweed.
Photograph: Brad Bahner/Insa Dispensaries
2. Cannabis Menu Color Features
Here at BudSense, we encourage you to use lots of color on your cannabis menus. Here are some ways you can earn points for using Halloween colors on your cannabis menus.
Header Background Color
Changing the color of the header and section titles, backgrounds, and body text is a great way to add a breath of fresh scare to your menus! This can be done by going into the section editor and adding section colors.
Header Text Color
Section Background Color
Section Body Text Color
Product Stylization
Product Stylization is a fantastic way to differentiate products on your menu. By adding stylization to specific cannabis products, you’ll be able to capture the attention of your cannabis customers and direct it towards those cannabis products. You can do this by Bolding, Italicizing, Underlining, and Striking through certain products.
3. Cannabis Menu Bonus
Sales Text Color
Make your sales prices stand out on your menu by changing the price text color on the Sale items. This can be done by going into your Settings > Menus > Menu Defaults and changing the sale font color.
Column Stylization
Column Stylization can be done through BudSense’s Dynamic Columns. You can apply different colors, highlighting, Bolding, Italicizing, Underlining, and Striking through certain columns on your menu.
Halloween Puns - We love a good pun here at BudSense :’) The more the scarier and the more points you’ll get!
2. Cannabis Marketing Menu
With BudSense Marketing Menus, you have the option to build 3 different marketing menus: Category Cards, Drive Thru Menu, and Product Feature Menu. All three cannabis marketing menus are great at communicating product information in simple and highly visual ways.
Cannabis Menu Features
Refer to the links and descriptions above on all the ways to use BudSense’s features to earn points on your cannabis marketing menus.
Menu Title
Menu Background
Section Title
Badges
Labels
Insa, a cannabis dispensary brand found in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida really gets into the spirit of Halloweed.
Photograph: Brad Bahner/Insa Dispensaries
Cannabis Menu Color Features
Card Color
With BudSense, you can change the color of the background of your Category Cards and Drive Thru cards on your cannabis menus to earn some Halloweed Points. In the example below, we use two different card colors: black and orange.
For more information on how to enter and submit carved menus, READ MORE HERE.
As always, we thank you for reading this blog and look forward to seeing your Halloween Menu Carvings. Don’t be scared to reach out if you have any questions, we’re always happy to help! Good luck and have FUN!
