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Under new management sign maker
The sign for the door when a business changes hands: the business name up top, who runs the place now, one line about what stays the same, the day it started, hours and a phone number. Three styles, portrait or landscape, print it or download a PNG.
Preview — the sheet you are about to print
Corner Street Diner
Under new management
Same team, same recipes
Tue–Sun 11:00 – 20:30
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What the sign has to answer
- Lead with what has not changed. A welcome paragraph buries the one line a regular stops to read — “Same team, same recipes” says it in four words, before anyone reaches the door handle.
- One name is enough. Write who runs the place now and stop there; the biography, and the reason the last owner left, belong in a conversation rather than on glass.
- Date it. A notice with no start date is still taped up in June, and by then it reads as a shop nobody is looking after.
- The QR code can open your website or your Google review link — paste the address, and the code is drawn on this page. Point it at something you can edit later.
Buying a business usually means inheriting a website with somebody else’s name on it, and nobody can tell you from the outside how long swapping that out takes. Find out in five minutes: the editor opens on a working site, and you can put your own name on it with no account, no card and nothing saved. Publishing with your own domain and hosting is $49 a month.
Open the editor and rename somethingCommon questions
What should an under new management sign say?
Six lines at most: the business name, “Under new management” in large type, one line about what stays the same, who runs it now, the day it started, then hours and a phone number. Past that, the sign stops being readable at a glance, which is the only way it gets read.
Should the sign say why the business changed hands?
No. A retirement, a sale, a family reason — none of that belongs on the window. Customers are asking three practical questions: is it the same food, are the same people here, did the prices move. Answer those three and leave the story to whoever walks in and asks.
What happens to the Google Business Profile?
Transfer the existing listing instead of creating a second one. The current owner can add the new owner in the profile and hand over primary ownership, which keeps the reviews, the photos and the history on that listing. A duplicate splits all of it and leaves searchers guessing. Where the previous owner cannot be reached, Google has a request-access route instead.
How long should it stay up?
Until the regulars have all walked past it — longer for a place people visit monthly than for a morning coffee stop. Then swap it for an ordinary hours sign. A door still announcing new management six months on suggests the change never settled.