uWink restaurant features self-order and pay, plus touchscreen games

TORONTO — Volante Systems recently announced a partnership with uWink, a new interactive restaurant and entertainment concept, to offer the uV Hospitality Solution, an end-to-end self-order, self-pay and at-the-table digital entertainment delivery solution.

The solution was tested in uWink's prototype interactive restaurant in Woodland Hills, California. According to a news release, it is an integration of uWink's touchscreen user interface software and micro-transaction game credit and redemption system with Volante's point of sale and back-office enterprise system.

At the uWink restaurant in Woodland Hills, customers self-order and self-pay for food, drink and digital media, including short-form video games (uWink offers a library of more than 70 casual and social single-player and multiplayer games), all from tabletop touchscreen terminals located at each seat.

This technology was recently awarded Best Technology Innovation from Hospitality Technology magazine.