McDonald’s To Have AI-Driven Drive-Thrus In Almost All Stores Before Year’s End
November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes
There’s an interesting piece up in the New York Times about how McDonald’s is investing heavily in technology to adopt to a fast-changing consumer …
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Coates Starts Marketing Sleek Self-Service Kiosks For QSR
October 31, 2019 by Dave Haynes
The Aussie-based, QSR-focused digital signage and retail solutions firm Coates Group has started marketing a self-service screen it says pushes the boundaries on kiosk …
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IV Dickson On Why SageNet Expanded Its IT Business Into Digital Signage
October 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes
It’s now really common that businesses of all sizes and types who decide to deploy some sort of digital signage network look to a …
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North America’s Cinema Giants Team Up On Digital Signage Management
September 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes
Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media, whose parent company is the dominant cinema chain in Canada, has done a deal to manage the digital signage network …
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McDonald’s Interrupting Full Digital Menuboards To Run Lion King Promos
July 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes
Hat Tip @BradParler for tweeting on this … This seems like a really bad idea – running an interstitial-style ad for a new movie …
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If You Sell Digital Signage Solutions Into Food Services, You’re Now Competing With Coca-Cola
June 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes
Well this is pretty interesting – digital signage CMS companies chasing the food services businesses have long known they had many competitors, big and …
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Another, Very Different Digital Signage Fail At Timmies
May 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes
This is a Tim Horton’s in downtown Toronto this morning, as spotted by a digital signage vet. I’ve seen lots of Timmies where one …
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Look Ma, No Peripherals – This Touchscreen Embeds Payment Tech In The Display
January 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes
One of the biggest payments tech companies around has found a display provider to partner on interactive kiosks that embed payment capabilities in the …
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Restaurant Tech Co Debuts Screen-Driven Order Pick-Up Podiums
January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes
Trends in fast casual and QSR restaurants are having an interesting impact on digital signage usage in that sector, and new technology coming out …
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How McDonald’s Has Made In-Store Interactivity The Norm
January 2, 2019 by Brandon Harp
Guest Post: Emily Ingram, Prendi Consumer expectations are advancing rapidly, and businesses will benefit if they keep up with it. Here’s a look into …
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SICOM Acquired By Global Payments In $415M Cash Deal
September 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes
SICOM Systems, which provides digital signage, POS and other software solutions into the QSR and fast casual restaurant sect ors, has been acquired by …
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McDonald’s Seeing 3%-3.5% Sales Bump Through Dynamic Digital Menu Displays
September 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes
A reader pointed me to a fascinating piece in Forbes from back in April about McDonald’s that goes into how the QSR giant is using big …
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