Touch screens have long been a part of our lives, whether on smartphones, ATMs or self-checkout lanes at grocery stores. But restaurants have been slower to adopt the technology. Only late last fall ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WFMY) – So imagine it’s lunch time and you’re craving McDonald’s. You walk into the restaurant and you’re led to a touch-screen kiosk by an associate to make your order. Within the ...

Overcrowded message boards. Outdated directories. English-only menus. Walk into almost any courthouse or government office across the country, and you're likely to encounter all of those headaches and ...

Vicki Hodder is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Mo. Chicago-area bar and restaurant owner Frank Elliott sees the adage “time is money” at work every day. The faster his bartenders and ...

At a familiar restaurant in Spring Valley, employees on Wednesday greeted customers at the doorway. They brought meals to their tables. And, most importantly, two new kiosks awaited the touch of ...

A Subway franchisee has implemented touchscreen drive-thru kiosks from Nextep Systems at his restaurants in Loveland, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo. A 20-year veteran with 25 successful Subway franchises, ...

Self-service kiosks at McDonald’s (MCD) and other fast-food chains have loomed as job killers since they were first rolled out 25 years ago. But nobody predicted what actually happened. In one of the ...

This may be a smartphone age, but our lives are becoming a series of kiosk stops, from ATMs and supermarket checkouts to airlines and gas stations. And now, increasingly, there’s the fast-food kiosk.

Over the last few weeks you might’ve heard about the ultra-futuristic information kiosks recently developed for the New York City subway system. It’s sci-fi stuff, thoroughly modernizing the arteries ...