Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner NRF 2023 Preview See our local page here on NRF 2023 as well as our portal page on NRF The Kiosk Association is again exhibiting at NRF 2023 in New York. Here are some preliminary items. Our portal page on NRF Click for full size Jan. 14: Opening Party |… Read More »
Last Updated on March 19, 2026 by Craig Allen Keefner Kiosk Mode Kiosk Mode protects your systems from public hacks. Recently there was a large RFP for kiosk enclosures (at a federal cemetery). The procuring office indicated that no computers would be required as they had existing stock of some older Dell laptops. The laptops run Windows 7… Read More »
Last Updated on March 19, 2026 by Craig Allen Keefner POS Terminal & Point of Sale Terminal Companies The POS kiosk faces the customer. The POS terminal is generally employee-facing though double-sided is now facing customers. It is hardware and software. It is transactional but it can also be informational. Consider digital menus and messaging, for example, digital… Read More »
Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Kiosk News Articles Couple of new articles out there mainly pointing to Labor Shortage as a prominent driver for self-order kiosks. Excerpt From Mondelez Foodservice operators may be feasting on opportunities as the pandemic retreats, but economic challenges persist. One of the toughest to swallow is the labor… Read More »
Last Updated on December 24, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner NASA Ticketing Kiosks Video – Double Vision Screen Terminal Wow. Been a long long time since we’ve seen stacked double screens in a ticketing kiosk. Usually, it’s an overhead attractor but this is a new design iteration that makes the old overhead attractor iteration look rudimentary. Worth noting… Read More »
Last Updated on March 18, 2026 by Craig Allen Keefner NRF 2023 Also covered for this “NRx” tradeshow — include 22Miles, BurgerFi, Cosmopolitan, Wendys POS, Menu Boards, WelcomeWare and Elotouch — Here is link to NRF page. The NRF (National Retail Federation) show, known as “Retail’s Big Show,” is a premier event held annually in New York City.… Read More »
Last Updated on August 10, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Grocery Self Checkout & Accessibility by Food Institute. Includes comments from Toshiba, Storm Interface and also Kiosk Association. One distinction that we like to make is that self-checkout at grocery stores is closely aligned with Point of Sale terminals and in fact are truly just hybrid customer-facing POS… Read More »
Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 16, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Olea Kiosks®, Inc., the premier provider of innovative self-service kiosk solutions, is proud to welcome industry veteran Michael Tulloch to its team as Director of Solution Sales. In this role, Tulloch will be responsible for growing the business in Access… Read More »
Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Kiosk Software Development Platform News New functions from Intuiface no-code development platform which now includes Raspberry Pi. One of Intuiface’s claims to fame is its breadth of Player’s operating system support. For a refresher, those platforms are Windows, Android, iPadOS, BrightSign, ChromeOS, Samsung Tizen, and LG webOS. From… Read More »
Last Updated on February 4, 2026 by Craig Allen Keefner JAWS ADA for Kiosk screen reader available for Android Kiosks Editors Note — big announcement from Vispero/TPGi on the availability of Android software for ADA assistive (Android screen reader). Android has been lacking a good ADA accessibility solution and no surprise Vispero delivers one first. You can see… Read More »
Last Updated on February 4, 2026 by Craig Allen Keefner POS Clover Order Kiosk ROI POS Clover case study on customer order kiosks’ positive impact on a relatively small retail shop. Most of us like to think in terms of 14,000 kiosks at Mcdonald’s and relegate small businesses to the footnotes. It’s a challenge aggregating tens of thousands… Read More »
Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Point of Sale Accessibility & Ingenico From POSRFP.com Update on Ingenico Accessibility Options Video link on LinkedIn of Ingenico’s strategy for visually impaired consumers for payment terminals without a physical pin pad. Basically Ingenico is developing a plastic grid overlay that could be put on the terminal that… Read More »
Last Updated on June 8, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Receptionist Kiosk Case Study Visitor Management systems case study on: better utilization of employees, despite location Avoiding the hiring and vetting process for a new employee Not having to go thru the process of training a new employee instead of utilizing exceptional employee already in the role For… Read More »
Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Disabled Shoppers Struggle With Inaccessible Self-Checkouts Dec 1, 2022 – New article from Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on inaccessible self-checkouts. Blind people, wheelchair users and others say the design of typical self-service machines prevents them from shopping independently. By Katie Deighton — we continue to see major media… Read More »