Self Service Kiosk Machine Industry News May 2024 WESTMINSTER, Colo., May 13, 2024 (APnews and PR Newswire)— This week the National Restaurant Association show in Chicago starts. Booth 5536 (near Square and Toast) will have 6 different demos from the Kiosk Manufacturer Association (KMA). See the Clover POS kiosk integrated with digital menus. Also a Square kiosk with… Read More »
Parcel Lockers, Food Lockers Updated August 31, 2025 — Lockers for parcel pickup and vending dispensing are surging in popularity. Apartment complexes and more. Amazon is across the 7-Eleven chain. One of the new ideas are custom solar-powered pickup lockers for residential consumers. Porch pirates are just one factor. We took a look at the space recently. What… Read More »
Robotic Restaurant and in this case Flippy July 2025 Update Flippy, the robotic kitchen assistant developed by Miso Robotics, has undergone significant changes since its high-profile debut. Initially introduced in 2017 as a burger-flipping robot at CaliBurger in Pasadena, Flippy faced operational challenges: it was temporarily taken offline after just a day because human staff couldn’t keep up… Read More »
Listing of Orphan Posts To make sure google has these kiosk pages indexed we include them here. Reported from LinkScan Sep 14th — 28xx HIPAA Kiosks Section 508 Kiosks Windows Lockdown For Kiosks Android Lockdown Browser Digital Signage CMS Standard Kiosk Enclosures Tablet AIO Design Kiosk Software Custom Tablet Kiosks Payment Kiosk and Bill Pay Kiosk Kiosk Case… Read More »
NRF Kiosk 2024 – POS Kiosk, Card2Cash The big show of the year is still NRF in New York in January. If you go to just one show, then that is the one. Over 100 tagged “kiosk” companies. Here is main search of NRF website for kiosk — https://nrfbigshow.nrf.com/search?keys=kiosk The “big show” of the year for many many… Read More »
China Display Touchscreen Kiosk Mini PC Resources China is often a preferred destination for displays and touchscreens, as well as large LEDs and LCDs, suitable for both indoor and outdoor applications. Mini-PCs, AIOs, tablets, and Media Players are natural accessories. Major companies like Amazon use China (see the Amazon Hubs lockers). The USPS uses China for their lockers… Read More »
Cali Express Flippy with Nvidia AI Updated August 31, 2025 — Flippy, the robotic kitchen assistant, and its maker Miso Robotics have both seen major advancements recently, with the latest Flippy robot launching in early 2025 and Miso Robotics partnering to scale installations and improve support for their automation products.restaurantbusinessonline+2 Flippy Robot Updates The next-generation Flippy Fry Station robot is… Read More »
Conversational Voice Order AI While conversational AI circa May 2023 is a hot topic and a big tool in the “buzz bag” aka “we plan on doing that”, conversational voice AI has finally reached actual deployments. Estimates and projections are fine but real data is what counts. Meanwhile Google and Microsoft battle for available oxygen in the AI… Read More »
HIMSS 2023, Booth 7431 – Making Technology Accessible Storm Interface are pleased to announce their participation at this year’s HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, the most influential health information technology event of the year. All self-service applications must be compliant with The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and those designed for use in medical related situations are… Read More »
REDYREF Kiosks Gold Sponsor REDYREF, our latest Gold Sponsor, is an American kiosk manufacturer headquartered in New Jersey. The company has been designing, engineering and manufacturing innovative self-service kiosk solutions for over 100 years. For more information visit REDYREF’s website or email [email protected]. REDYREF’s expertise covers applications ranging from digital directories to QSR ordering, ticketing, bill payment, and wayfinding. But what sets them… Read More »
AI Conversational Chatbot Avatars New member SapientX provides A.I. Software That Gives a Voice and Intelligence to Products. AI is a very big thread throughout the media these days. Restaurants and retail in particular. Avatars for every segment of business. SapientX We Are Building the Next Generation of A.I. Voice Assistants and Avatars Current voice systems have surprisingly… Read More »
Social Security Kiosks Big contract for Social Security Administration announced for ADA-compliant kiosks. News from ReliaSource which was actually awarded the contract ($15.6M total?). Looks like $4M of that was service and maintenance. Interesting how it was titled “Visitor Intake Processing”. Summary Brief Great news for local manufacturer KIOSK winning a contract worth a total of $19M over… Read More »
Restaurant Tech Trends w/ Panera Bread and Chipotle + NRA Preview As noted on PRNewswire and AP News Editor Notes — The restaurant technology deep dive is free registration and the event takes place May 4th. DENVER, Colo., April 27, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — April 2022 Self-Service: The Kiosk Association is pleased to announce we are sponsoring a restaurant… Read More »
NRF 2022 Review Editors Note: We are in process of collecting photos, videos and comments on the show and will update this doc in the next few days. V1 The Kiosk Association exhibited at NRF 2022 this year. We expected fewer attendees for sure. Several factors contributed to that the major one being Omicron pretty much everywhere. Weather… Read More »
First published on retailsystems.org We don’t know about you but all the talk about conversational AI seems to us, to be mostly talk. There is an irony in that observation. The Alexa and Google Mini’s, and Pixel Assistants are woefully inadequate at understanding nuance or building any simple suggestions based on repeated tasks. They change the volume and… Read More »
Kiosk and Digital Signage News from Industry Group and Kiosk Association (KMA) for Jan. 2022 Here is the link on PRNewswire and also the link on APNews – January News DENVER, Colo., Jan 12, 2022 — January news from the Industry Group and the Kiosk Association: NRF is coming up this weekend and we are hopeful our retail… Read More »
Need Some Numbers? There are many reports with many numbers and most of them are from research data firms (India) trying to make a buck. We have seen good reports, bad reports, and even done our own reports. Frost and Sullivan did their due diligence way back when but that generation of genuine data providers has passed unfortunately.… Read More »
From Retail Systems IoT Market Research Predictions 2021 Great report from Kinsey listing markets for IoT. It’s hard to argue with RFID checkout and self-checkout payment is growing leaps and bounds. The old stand at cashier model is at or past the tipping point. They point to cost reductions in the store. Key point for us — Adoption of self-checkout… Read More »
Drive Thrus Driving People Away — see linkedin article. This looks at how fixing one thing often breaks another. Much of my career has been devoted to websites and internet properties. High Availability and Burst Capacity are two of the big factors considered. Having a nice website being overwhelmed by large traffic and sometimes a Denial of Service… Read More »
From MCA with thanks to Sixteen:Nine — older article from fall 2020 but it shows countertop kiosks for orders. Worth noting that Taco Bell announced cantina kiosks at Times Square back in April 2021. This precedes that by 6 months. Nice gallery of pictures. Automated Restaurant Kiosks ala Taco Bell — Itsu ‘store of the future’ in pictures… Read More »
Avatar Kiosk From BusinessNewsThisWeek Jun2021 Grafton, WI, June 17, 2021: ARS Connect, an A.I. technology company behind a first-of-its-kind customizable talking A.I. workforce platform, has partnered with Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. to offer self-service kiosk solutions for courts, government facilities, and businesses. Municipal buildings and courthouses can utilize the innovative A.I. to answer frequent questions from visitors,… Read More »
Where Do Large-Format Displays Work – aka Go Big or Go Home! Writer: Richard Slawsky – Adjunct Professor, University of Louisville Contributing Members: Keyser, AcquireDigital, LG Business Solutions, Panasonic Other Contributors: Barco, Sharp NEC Display Solutions of America, Azumo, Dave Haynes/SixteenNine In Brief No longer the realm of outdoor or indoor mass display, moving into corporate, banking and retail… Read More »
Full article on NRN May 2021 Technology Solving Restaurant Drive-Thru and Kitchen Modernization After focusing tech investments on off-premise, restaurants will look for solutions to raise convenience and lower cost of labor Highlights Modern Drive-Thru Ordering – dual drive-thru lanes alongside pickup lanes, and perhaps walkup pickup windows. At first glance, the multitude of options that elevate the… Read More »
Press release today from PRNewswire Kiosk Association Apr2021 DENVER, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — National Restaurant Association has launched Show To Go and the Kiosk Association is a participant. The online show runs through August 2021. We have eight showcases online: QSR Self-Order, Touchless Controls, Outdoor Menu Boards, ClearConnect full suite solution, Restaurant Kiosks, gigantic digital signage (LVCC), large digital signs and touchscreens. April 21 is a… Read More »
Minimum Wage Kiosks and Kiosk Self-Order From Marketwatch an article referencing new study on Minimum Wage impacts — nice article from Marketwatch looking at the results from 2021 Princeton study on the effects of raising minimum wage. The usual most vocal critics are people like Andy Puzder back in the day that he ran Carl Jrs. Labor costs… Read More »
POS Kiosks and Restaurant Kiosks Lead The Way 2025 update — To answer the question on McDonalds kiosk manufacturer there are at least 4 different manufacturers across the world. Acrelec and Pyramid come to mind but there are others including Verifone, Evoke in UK and the Australian company. The self-order kiosk industry in 2025 is experiencing strong global… Read More »
Todays Unattended Kiosk News Relevant news impacting unattended self-service news from around the world. If interesting and noteworthy news send comments/suggestions to [email protected] October 2021 [do_widget id=rss-4] September 2021 Healthcare Kiosk Case Study Kiosk Supply Chain – China in NY Times news. This is a fact. Many factories have been notified that in the next 3 months, they… Read More »
Excerpt News from cutting edge of accessibility and Freedom Scientific blog Jul2020 by Elizabeth Whitaker — Nice blog article by Freedom Scientific along with a video demonstrating the use of JAWS kiosks software. Here is highlight of the article of JAWS kiosk and its features. Providing accessibility functions to your entire user group be it customers at a kiosk,… Read More »
A History of Kiosks Kiosk History – having worked in the kiosk industry longer than most and being an archivist, one task we take to heart providing a chronology of the kiosk history. For more history and historical content, be sure and check out the Kiosk Archives here on Kiosk Industry. We tend to focus on electronic kiosks… Read More »
A host of new technologies are on the horizon for the QSR industry. For many of them, a self-order kiosk will serve as their foundation. Quick-service restaurants have long had a reputation for being innovators when it comes to technology. In the early days of modern foodservice, QSRs were among the first to incorporate features such as drive-thru… Read More »
Excerpt reprinted from TheNextWeb Story By Andrew Burton Founder, The Circuit Board — Andrew is Head of Communications for 600+ staff music technology leader, Native Instruments in Berlin, a company with a vision to democratize digital music creation. After training as a journalist in London, he spent over a decade consulting for leading technology companies in Europe and Australia. In 2018 he founded The… Read More »
Original complete article on the Denver Post published 2/15/2019. Support the Denver Post! Updated 3/23/2019. AI Taking Your Order at Drive Thru Kiosk Voice The Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard at 2095 South Broadway is testing artificial intelligence to take drive-through breakfast orders. The artificial intelligence company, Valyant AI based in Denver says their deal marks one… Read More »
Support the Kiosk Association Beginning in November 2015 we began accepting membership and sponsors thru end of 2016. The mission of the group is to promote kiosks and related self-service technology along with best practices. We do this via success stories, kiosk case studies and news releases. Multiple RFP services help us (and you) keep an eye on… Read More »
Automation Comes To McDonald’s Kiosks – NPR from Morning Edition September 12, 20185:11 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition ALLY SCHWEITZER FROM We hear a lot about robots eventually taking over jobs in manufacturing, but automation has already hit the service industry. The cashier who takes your order at McDonald’s could soon be replaced. DAVID GREENE, HOST: So… Read More »
Episode 36 of Retail Gets Real: McDonald’s franchise owner Carlos Mateos Jr. on careers at McDonald’s.
Source: nrf.com
Soon after renovating his father’s first restaurant, Mateos implemented technology like a mobile app and self-service kiosks, along with more service and product offerings like a bakery and table service. With automation prompting new aspects of the business, there is a greater need for the human element. “Come spend a day with me,” Mateos says to those who think robots might replace jobs.