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Vendors team up on nutrition kiosk for fast-food restaurants

October 27, 2003

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Walk Up Systems, Codespearand Vultron Display Technologies have partnered to produce a walk-up touchscreen kiosk application that will provide comprehensive nutritional information and optional interactive ordering for fast food restaurants.

Integrated to a restaurant's existing POS system, the kiosks are designed to address FDA obesity and nutritional labeling concerns as well as the operational efficiencies provided by self-serve order entry, according to a news release. The systems can help increase order revenues and reduce operational costs.

The kiosks use an intuitive new touchscreen interface that Walk Up Systems has already sold to foodservice manager Sodexho for use at the University of South Carolina.

The first phase of the South Carolina installation allows students to check menu items and nutritional information at a student union food court that serves more than 5,000 meals per day.

Users can quickly access needed data through an animated interface that mimics the structure of a food court. Phase 2 of the project, to be completed by March, will allow customers to order and pay for their meals at all 13 restaurants using credit cards and student account cards. Even the most complex orders can be completed in 30 seconds or less, according to the release.

Walk Up Systems provides the application software that runs on the kiosk. Codespear collaborated in the software development and configures all kiosk components, including speakers, printers and credit card readers. Vultron manufactures the kiosk units.