Europe Kiosk News

Last Updated on November 30, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner

Kiosk and Self-Service News from Europe

• TIG Restaurant 20 Index: A 68-Point Divide Between Casual Dining & Fast-Casual Tech Favorites
  Industry statistics* show location counts and tech rollouts, but stock performance reveals where investors are putting real capital. The newly launched TIG Restaurant 20 Equity Index (R20)—an equal-weighted basket of 20 major publicly traded restaurant brands relevant to self-service, digital ordering, and labor automation—reveals a stark market divide: Casual / Full Service (5 stocks): +38.0% YoY (Led ...
• Accessibility Is Moving From Checklist to Customer Journey – August Newsletter
  Self-service technology is now fundamental infrastructure for retail, restaurants, healthcare, vending, transportation and public services. But as kiosks, self-checkout and unattended payments become routine, accessibility must become more than a final compliance review. On September 15, representatives from The Industry Group, Kiosk Industry, the Kiosk Manufacturer Association and accessibility technology partners will meet with Executive Director ...
• Blood Pressure Kiosks – Leasing Options
  August 2026 — We saw new RFP for blood pressure kiosks and “leasing”.  Never seen that before so we looked. Yes. There is still a fairly active lease/service-contract market for commercial blood-pressure kiosks, including some of the legacy LifeClinic equipment. The strongest companies we found are: 4M Health — probably the most directly relevant. They explicitly sell, lease ...
• Airport Digital Signage: The Screen Is Only the Surface
  Airport digital-signage projects are often judged first by what appears on the display: visual design, animation, video, and the polish of a demonstration. But in a live terminal, the screen is only the visible layer of a much larger operational system.  Reference Article — Why Airport Signage Newcomers Skip the Hard Part – Acquire Digital The real ...
• Who Are the Authorities in Self-Service Technology?
  Authority in Self-Service Self-service technology has become critical infrastructure. Kiosks, self-checkout systems, ticketing machines, ATMs, vending systems, digital ordering stations and other unattended technologies now handle billions of interactions across retail, restaurants, transportation, healthcare, government and financial services. But who actually defines the rules, establishes best practices and provides authoritative information for this increasingly important technology sector? There is ...
• Call for Comments: ANSI EVSP Oct 2026 Gaps Progress Report
  ANSI plans to issue the next EVSP Gaps Progress Report (against the 2023 roadmap) in October 2026. The Gaps Progress Report provides you with an opportunity to report on research, standards/codes, and conformity assessment activities as well as provide additional feedback against the gaps published in the 2023 roadmap. ANSI thanks our 2026 Megawatt sponsor National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and ...
• Press Release – Kiosk Industry to Meet with U.S. Access Board
  Press release on AP News and Send2Press According to a press release reported by Send2Press Newswire, representatives from The Industry Group (TIG), Kiosk Industry, and the Kiosk Manufacturer Association (KMA) are scheduled to meet with Executive Director Sachin Dev Pavithran and team members from the U.S. Access Board in Washington, D.C., on September 15th. The primary purpose ...
• Three Free Executive Briefings For Retail Leaders
  As published on Retail Systems Three Free Executive Briefings to Help Retail Leaders Get Store Technology Right RetailOCD has opened its Executive Resources library with three complete publications—available at no cost through January 12, 2027. These are not excerpts or teasers. Each is a full executive framework ...
• Zebra’s Scan Engines and OEM Solutions
  Editor’s Note: This feature is published as a Gold Sponsor Feature in partnership with Zebra Technologies. Retail self-service is no longer a standalone kiosk conversation. The customer-facing screen, payment terminal, scanner, and receipt printer now operate inside a single integrated ecosystem that spans real-time inventory tracking, associate mobility, fulfillment, task management, and artificial intelligence. That holistic operational ...
• Retailsystems.org updates vending RFP listings
  Vending service providers interested in bidding on government requests for proposal can review available RFPs on retailsystems.org, a kioskindustry.org sister website. The website’s menu includes an RFP button that opens a list of recent RFPs providing the government entity (state and local), the proposal submission deadline and the listing date for each RFP. The current RFP ...
• WCAG Certification
  All About WCAG and Accessibility for Websites Question – Is accessibility certification any legal protection from website WCAG issues? Answer — No — no accessibility certification (CPACC, WAS, Trusted Tester, or otherwise) grants legal immunity from an ADA/WCAG website lawsuit. There’s no such thing as a certification that shields you outright. There is no official W3C “WCAG certification” ...
• Nalaxone Kiosks – Vending
  Pinal County Public Health is expanding access to free health resources through new Public Health Kiosks located throughout the community. Most kiosks are available 24/7 and dispense a variety of free public health products at no cost to residents. The kiosks and the supplies they provide are funded through grant support. A total of 10 kiosks ...
• AI Security for Self-Service
  When was the last time somebody went thru a Wendy’s Drive Thru with AI and tried to order 10,000 empty paper cups? Last week…When was the last time you were on the phone with a helpdesk and found yourself talking to an AI?  Did you start talking gibberish to auto-escalate to a real person? Airport boarding ...
• RetailNow 2026 – Elliot Maras Report
  RetailNOW 2026 – Discovery and execution call for stronger tech partnerships: 10 takeaways By Elliot Maras | August 4, 2026 Retail author Carl Boutet describes challenges facing tech providers to RSPA’s Jim Roddy during the general session. Table of Contents Show Report The pace of change in retail technology is coming faster than many people realize. That much was evident at last week’s ...
• Grubbrr – A Closer Look
  GRUBBRR is private (Boca Raton, spun out of Sam Zietz’s TouchSuite, which acquired it in late 2018), so everything below is third-party estimate or company-disclosed — no audited numbers exist. Seems to originated and exists still to an extent in that peculiar Samsung, NCR, Toast and Square ecosystem. Software middleware.  Orchestration. Commerce Automation. Big splash was ...