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McDonald's Europe expects kiosks to increase jobs
McDonald's Europe has no plans of cutting employees despite recent media reports predicting that its wide deployment of self-ordering kiosks would replace human jobs. The restaurant chain has …
May 23, 2011 - Cherryh Butler
eTab launches food-ordering kiosk with payment capability
A self-service solution that allows restaurant and bar patrons to order and pay at their tables is now available from eTab. It uses a digital-menu interface on a portable touch-screen computer to …
May 16, 2011
Mobile kiosks drive retail sales
Why try to attract customers to your store, when you can go to them? That's the question Annette Antoine Nolan, founder and CEO of CartsBlanche LLC, has posed to potential retailers with her new …
April 17, 2011 - Cherryh Butler
Blazing Onion opens new location with kiosks
Self-service kiosks are coming to the Alderwood Mall in Lynwood, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, according to Lynnwood Today. Construction is underway at the mall to turn a former Ruby's Diner into the …
April 7, 2011
Top uses for kiosks in the hospitality industry
The hospitality industry has obviously seen its share of challenges as travel and leisure budgets still border on "non-existent" for many Americans. Although the slumping economy has caused some …
February 28, 2011 - Richard Bernstein
Kiosks order up faster fast food
I like to imagine a world where I could get my standard fast-food order – a grilled chicken sandwich with only mustard and cheese –sans the eye roll and sigh from the teenager behind the …
February 10, 2011 - Cherryh Butler
Want cheese fries? Order your own
Canadians can now experience the world of self-service when they visit A&W restaurants in Ontario, Vancouver and Calgary. Located at the front of each restaurant, the kiosks in the hamburger …
January 27, 2011
You are what you eat: Kiosk predicts favorite recipes based on consumers' looks
Ever wonder if your appearance screams chicken or fish? Now you can find out, at kiosks developed by Intel and Kraft. The grocery store kiosk scans a person's face and then suggests products and …
January 18, 2011
NRF: Retailers learn about C-tailing from NCR (VIDEO)
NCR Corp representatives were at the National Retail Federation's Big Show last week in New York City to sell retailers on C-tailing, a solution that converges Web, mobile and kiosk technology to …
January 16, 2011 - Cherryh Butler
Scala powers touch display self-service kiosks in German restaurant chain
Scala, a global digital-signage and advertising-management solutions provider announced today that its software is powering a touch interactive ordering system at holyfields restaurants in Germany …
January 12, 2011