Design a price list or menu board

I need a printable price list for our coffee shop to hang behind the counter. Use our brand colors, list 8 items with prices that match our current menu, put the espresso drinks grouped together, highlight the two bestsellers, and make sure the text is legible from four feet away. Deliver a PDF sized 24x36 inches and a web-ready PNG for Instagram stories by Thursday morning so the print shop can meet Friday's rush.

Before I send this to the shop owner for approval, make the price list easy to scan for a busy barista and a new customer: surface the five most popular items at the top, call out size and price on one line, create a small dietary icon legend, use large legible type for the top half, and flag any layout choices that could confuse the printer about bleed or safe area.

I just finished a draft of the menu and the owner asked for a decorative script header and tiny prices — now she thinks customers might not see prices at the counter. The owner, the day-shift barista, and the local print shop matter here. I'm afraid the board will slow orders and cause complaints but don't want to argue over aesthetics. Do I swap the script for a bold sans on the final, increase price size to at least 18 pt for legibility, or keep the owner's look and add a small secondary printed price list at the counter?

Over the last year we've redone our menu three times and keep losing a day fixing legibility and bleed errors with the print shop. The owner cares about the brand look, the manager cares about speed of service, and the printer insists on correct bleed and type size. Which habit will save the most time and credibility: adopt a single readable type scale and stick to it, build a one-sheet print spec template to hand every printer, or require a quick on-phone photo mock sent to the manager before ordering prints?