How Wow Bao 'wows' 'em with cartoon-adorned cubbies

Wow Bao's Geoff Alexander talks about how the brand uses kiosks, cubbies and cartoons to delight busy customers even when they are in a huge hurry to pick up…

The Power of VEN-U Sensors

Restaurants, Warehouses, Tech Firms and other businesses can benefit from a 24/7 remote monitoring solution.

Restaurant leaders discuss 3 digital categories turning industry on its head

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Digital signage, online ordering and loyalty apps are collectively transforming the restaurant business as we've known it for most of the past several decades.

Fast food pizza drives QSR customer satisfaction gains

Fast food pizza brands are making customers very happy this year and that's helping to  push the whole QSR category up a notch in its measurement of customer…

Focus POS beta tests updated software

June 11, 2018

Focus POS, a provider of restaurant point-of-sale software, is currently beta testing its updated POS software which it plans to roll out later this year…

Design partnership delivers BOGO: Restaurant kiosk edition

June 1, 2018

The infinite appeal of two-for-one offerings is part of the idea behind a new kiosk creation from the Vollrath Company and Christensen Consultants that allows…

Self-pour beer: A tech worth tapping into?

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

The craft beer revolution has changed the beer industry, and self-pour technology has made it easy for all kinds of brands to also embrace the trend, including…

Apex, Little Caesars develop self-service pick-up station

May 24, 2018

Apex Hot-Holding Device, a heated order pick-up station using self-serve automation technology, is now available to help restaurant employees focus on order…

Free webinar: How Buffalo Wild Wings uses technology to optimize supply chain

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

A free webinar explores how state-of-the-art technology can help restaurants maximize the quality and efficiency of their supply chain.

Toast launches tech to help streamline kitchen, FOH ops

May 3, 2018

Toast has unveiled Toast Go, a fully integrated point-of-sale, handheld device custom-built for restaurants, according to a press release. Toast Go combines…

Veteran restaurateur helps bring pizza truck kiosk to reality

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Pizza truck entrepreneur Bob Stephens reasoned that self-serve kiosks make sense for food trucks, but he had difficulty finding one. He managed to find a…

Boston Pizza to deploy ConnectSmart Kitchen and DineTime platforms from QSR Automation

May 2, 2018

Boston Pizza, Canada's largest casual dining restaurant chain, has decided to upgrade back-of-house and front-of-house technology with ConnectSmart Kitchen and…

Domino's puts AI on the phone

April 23, 2018

Phone orders and breaking-edge technology aren't often used in the same sentence these days, but that is exactly where Domino's is putting its latest…

Large-scale corporate catering comes to Caviar with Zesty acquisition

April 20, 2018

Caviar food ordering platform's parent company, Square Inc., has acquired certain assets of another company-centered catering platform called Zesty. The…

Sub Station II, Chicken Salad Chick, Pizza Inn franchisees: Tech buy-in demands time, trust

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, ATM Marketplace & Food Truck Operator

Franchisors who want franchisees to invest in tech tools, like mobile ordering and menu boards, would do well to remember that it pays to put yourself in their…

[LIVE WEBINAR] How Self-Order Kiosks Improve Restaurant Operations & Bottom Line

April 10, 2018

McDonald's found that average check sizes grow $1 when customers order through kiosks, and 20 percent more customers order drinks. These are just two of the…

Free webinar: Sonny's BBQ CIO will give inside look behind brand's switch to cloud-based POS

April 5, 2018

Switching to a cloud-based POS system helped Sonny's BBQ streamline operations and boost customer engagement, a story that Sonny's CIO Joe Tenczar will share…

Lessons learned about restaurant delivery from another kind of 'delivery experience'

by Noah Glass — CEO, Olo

The restaurant industry is in the midst of a massive $200 billion shift to digital that has become an business imperative for all players who truly want to…

The perks for pizza operators in intelligent checklists

The pizza operator's indispensable checklist gets intelligent and brings big perks along for the ride.

SlabbKiosks expands its production capabilities

SlabbKiosks will continue growing its kiosk production capabilities at a newly leased 12,065 square foot facility in Mesa, Arizona.