Foundry works fine at the table! Check out this article: https://www.foundryvtt-hub.com/guide/using-foundry-for-in-person-gaming/

Foundry makes a great information hub, even locally. All your DM handouts, their character sheets and notes, bags of holding, etc can live inside it. No more "who has X thing?"

I usually have a couple of maps set up for global use. One is the world/region map and I move a toke on it to show where the party is. Journal entries are pinned to locations and I reveal them as the party learns info.

Then I'll usually have a map set up as essentially their "planning table" with all the info relevant to the current events, images, etc.

It's set up so that even if we are running a combat in another map, they can swap back and reference something themselves if they want. I can always draw their attention back to the combat encounter map on demand if needed.

Also, if you also run 5e-tools it makes life even easier. You can import all sorts of things from 5e-tools into foundry with no need to spend time re-creating spells and items and such