Insights On Kiosks and Self-Service
Jan-Feb — Next show for us is HIMSS Healthcare in Las Vegas — How To Participate! — Monthly Newsletter
Latest Insights
- Restaurant Self-Service Technology Update – January 25th Edition
- Key Copy Kiosks in Walmart and 7-Eleven
- Has NCR Given Up on Hardware?
- From Hospitality to Fee-spitality: When EV Charging Becomes a Revenue Trap
Posts
- The New Modality Stack: How Interactive Systems Are Moving Beyond the TouchscreenWhy Multimodal Interaction Is Replacing Single-Interface Design For more than three ...
- Restaurant Self-Service Technology Update – January 25th EditionRecent developments in self‑service technology for major restaurant chains Here’s our ...
- Key Copy Kiosks in Walmart and 7-ElevenWalmart, 7-Eleven Expand Self-Service Key Duplication Walmart is significantly expanding its ...
- ISE Barcelona – Integrated Systems Europe Top 20 Exhibitor ListISE Barcelona Tradeshow Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Barcelona has firmly ...
- Giada Showcases Next-Generation Gaming & Edge AI at ICE Barcelona 2026What Giada Is Highlighting Giada is exhibiting at ICE Barcelona 2026, ...
- Has NCR Given Up on Hardware?Insight: NCR Isn’t Leaving Hardware — It’s Leaving the Factory When ...
- IRS Tax Kiosk Program Shifts in 2025 — What Taxpayers Need to KnowThe Cost of Poor Service for Kiosks In 2025, a long-standing ...
Automated Retail Systems Features:
- CES Preview — Consumer Tech in 2026
Photo provided by the Consumer Technology Association. CES 2026 to highlight booming tech investment, announces record innovation awards Economic uncertainty hangs across …
- China Digital Online and Battle Between Costco and Walmart
Costco Versus Walmart Versus Amazon? Insight — China is becoming the proving ground for three very different retail futures. Costco is …
- Technology drives vending use cases, tasks equipment service teams
Service and Vending Much has been reported about new capabilities of self service equipment thanks to technology, but when it comes …
- Payments – What Happened to Fiserv?
Explanation for Why Fiserv Has Gone South Thanks to Reforming Retail — We recommend subscription — All of us in payments …
- ATM industry’s 15-year suit against Visa, Mastercard almost over
Jonathan Rubin cites progress in the ATM class action suit against Visa and Mastercard as Bruce Renard looks on. NAC 2025: …
- ATM regulations expand with evolving technology
Nancy Daniels of Hyosung describes evolving ATM regulations. NAC 2025: Regulatory update As ATM technology advances, operators face increasing regulatory requirements. In …
- Chick Fil-A Vending Machine – Supplementary Channels
Beyond the Counter: How Chick-fil-A’s Hospital Vending Machine is Changing Food Access for Patients and Staff Chick-fil-A has launched its first …
Complete News — All News
Self-Service Rumors and Data
- Data Trivia : How many restaurants does McDonald’s have worldwide? The answer is 42,000. How many of those are franchises? The answer is 95%. In the US, there are 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants, and 12,000 of those are franchises. Extrapolations- Figure McDonald’s kiosks are close to 120,000 worldwide, and 42,000 are in the U.S.
- Market report for Top 50 Point of Sale in restaurants. Included are SST (self service tech tags) and you can sort/etc as yu like
https://kioskindustry.org/top-50-restaurant-pos-point-of-sale-systems-market-data/ - Market Report Data for The Top 50 restaurants circa 10/25/2025 — you can sort by locations, CAGR, revenue, and of course unique to TIG by Self-Service technology tags or Notes if you like. I’ve included “speculative” as well. https://kioskindustry.org/top-50-restaurant-perspective/
Jobs and People
Job Description – Editor — kioskmarketplace and vending times needs a new editor, once again. Our managing editor at retailsystems.org is Elliot Maras who was longest running editor there (2016-2024). One of contributing authors is currently standing in for them as interim (Richard Slawsky).
Job Description: We are seeking a Kiosk Engineer with strong hands-on experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting kiosk systems and hardware. The ideal candidate will have a background in system integration, peripheral configuration, and software deployment for kiosk-based solutions. Kindly drop your email to [email protected] or reach out to 678 720 3126
Field Operations Manager (Returns Kiosk) — We are searching for a North America Field Operations Manager to join our Doddle team. The Field Ops Manager will ensure the smooth and effective deployment, implementation and operationalization of our hardware self-service solution (returns kiosk) into host service locations. Aida DeJonghe — Sr Recruiter | Blue Yonder — 480-308-3068 (Work) — [email protected]
Last Updated
- Has NCR Given Up on Hardware?
- The New Modality Stack: How Interactive Systems Are Moving Beyond the Touchscreen
- HIMSS 2026 Healthcare Technology for Self-Service
- DTE Bill Pay Kiosks for customers
- Kiosk News March 2022 – Editor Picks March News Summary
- SST Update for October and November
- Kiosk Market Research 2025 – v27 – Self-Service
- Sam’s Club Self-Checkout : What Its New Self-Checkout Model Means for Costco and Walmart
- Walmart Self Checkout 2025: AI Kiosks, Scan & Go, and What’s Next
- Walmart Self-Checkout September 2025 Update
AVIXA Digital Signage Kiosk
- NCR Gives Up on Hardware
- ISE Barcelona – Integrated Systems
- Amazon Signage Stick for Digital Signage
- Giada Showcases Next-Generation Gaming
- Insight: Acrelec’s Leadership Reset Signals a New Phase for Global QSR
- ANSI’s U.S. Standards Strategy 2026
- Full list of articles
Tradeshows
- ISE Barcelona – Integrated Systems
- HIMSS 2026 Healthcare Kiosks – March
- National Restaurant Association Chicago – May
- InfoComm – June
- NRF Singapore in June
- IAAPA
- NRF NYC January
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Free Kiosk Machine Online Databases
- Kiosk Industry Companies [500+)
- China Kiosk Companies [vetted]
- Chinese LCD Quotes and Brochures
- Kiosk Asia
- Kiosk Europe
Big Thanks To Supporters
Thanks to our renewing and new supporters —
- Storm Interface – accessibility devices that are the standard in the industry
- NMI — NMI is a leading payment gateway and technology provider in the fintech industry
- Crane CPI — anything to do with payment and also service
- Sitekiosk Kiosk Software and Interactive Digital Signage software
- Kiosk Innovations — custom and standard kiosks of all types
Thanks to solution partners Intel (Kathy) , Pyramid Computer (Zahdan), TPGI (Traci) and Olea Kiosks (Frank). Our existence is based solely on participant support.
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If you have any questions, send an email to us — My email is [email protected]
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