Kiosk Marketplace announces the first annual Most Innovative Kiosk Awards

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

The first annual Kiosk Marketplace Most Innovative Kiosk Awards honors excellence in eight customer categories. More than 400 readers filled out ballots and…

Kiosk translates in sign language to assist hard of hearing customers

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Juke Slot develops a kiosk that offers sign language for hard of hearing customers, a significant market with special needs. One customer's experience alerted…

How self-serve kiosks get the orders rolling at Burger Boss

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Burger Boss, a fast casual chain in Southern California, has found self-serve kiosks a great tool for engaging customers in creating their orders and in…

Hotels and restaurants juggle kiosks and mobile technology

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Automatic Merchandiser

Mobile technology has grabbed the limelight due to rapid consumer adoption, but restaurants and hotels continue to invest in kiosks as well as mobile…

UFood Grill's self-serve kiosk recognizes customers' faces

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Automatic Merchandiser

UFood Gill's firsts stand-alone restaurant features a self-order kiosk that can remember the customer, thanks to facial recognition.

Voting now open for 2017 Most Innovative Kiosk Awards

The 2017 Most Innovative Kiosk Awards recognize excellence and innovation in eight user categories -- financial, telecommunications, healthcare, restaurant…

Johnny Rockets tests self-order kiosks in moving to a QSR format

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Self-order kiosks play an important role in moving to more of a quick-serve format for Johnny Rockets as the 30-year-old iconic brand seeks to refresh itself.

Kiosks killing jobs? Current events beg the question, but the facts say otherwise

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Automatic Merchandiser

Several restaurant chains are using kiosks and other technology that allow orders to be placed more rapidly and efficiently. Kiosks are fostering fears about…

Saladworks refreshes brand with innovative technology, featuring Life Bar kiosks

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

For those who are technology savvy who don't want to sit through a queue, speed is more important than human interaction.

Top kiosk stories for October: food and convenience dominates reader interest

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Kiosk industry members clearly recognize the need to stay on top of change while making sure they are well grounded in sound operating practices.

Top 5 kiosk stories for September

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

The leaves are beginning to fall, and the heat is abating. Kiosk Marketplace is keeping the heat turned up with fresh stories on subjects ranging from digital…

Kiosk top 5: August edition

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

Summer vacation is over and students across the U.S. are heading back to class. For Kiosk Marketplace, summer school was in session for a variety of hot…

Kiosks bring home the bacon: Top 5 stories July 2016

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

This July, McDonald's turned up the heat with virtual kiosks and robot powered kiosks turned it back down with frozen yogurt. These were just a few of the…

Restaurant kiosks serve up multiple demographics

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

QSR kiosks are all the rage these days, especially with McDonald's and other QSR giants jumping on the trend. Restaurant kiosks are now drawing in every…

McDonald's brings virtual reality to light

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

McDonald's just completed a makeover of a Singapore location and it is using virtual reality kiosks to show off all its improvements.

3D printers craft gourmet pizza

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

In the past, 3D printers have crafted toys and car parts. But now, one company has created the first 3D printed pizza with 80-year old yeast. It is also…

Top 5 kiosk stories: June edition

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

This month the top stories addressed topics that included keeping outdoor kiosks safe, marijuana kiosk operation and the question of whether kiosks will…

Panera 2.0 surges forward

by Cherryh Cansler — Publisher, FastCasual.com

Since the chain's rollout of kiosks and other digital systems, sales are up 6.2 percent. Panera CEO Ron Shaich gives the rundown on this development.

Takeout pizza delivered via ATM

by Travis Wagoner — Editor, Networld Media Group

The pizza kiosk has been operational in Europe for 13 years. The owner plans to deliver this unique vending kiosk solution to the U.S. this year.

February's kiosk news Top 5

by Bradley Cooper — Editor, Connect Media

This month, future trends topped the charts, as well as stories on retail kiosks, ATMs and fintech. It's time to take a look back at the top five most-read…