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SICOM Picks Up Jamba Juice’s Digital Menu Board Business

They don’t get a lot of attention, or make much if any marketing noise in the digital signage industry, but a Philly area company called SICOM is quietly building up a nice portfolio of digital display clients in the QSR space. SICOM has announced that Jamba Juice has selected it as the exclusive provider of digital menu boards and other marketing and promotion screens in the stores. […]

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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:07 AM

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16:9: Stratacache Adopts Auto Plant Practices To Produce New Drive-Thru Displays By 1,000s At Dayton Factory

Dayton, Ohio-based STRATACACHE is known primarily in the digital signage industry as an aggressive, fast-moving software and solutions company, and I doubt many industry people think about the company as a hardware manufacturer. But STRATACACHE is now very seriously into manufacturing outdoor-ready displays for the largest U.S. […]

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Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:35 AM

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16:9: Here’s A Look At Subway’s New Self-Service Order Kiosks

Via Linkedin Here’s a look at the new self service ordering kiosks piloted by the massive Subway QSR chain. […]

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Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:14 AM

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16:9: Subway Steps Up Digital Game; Adds Self-Ordering Kiosks, Menuboards

Subway is stepping up its digital game, adding self-ordering kiosks and digital menuboards in a bid to reverse three years of declining sales. Bloomberg reports that Subway is testing about 50 self-ordering kiosks that allow people to walk in and tailor their order, instead of doing the back and forth ordering with the worker actually adding the lettuce and tomatoes and other options. […]

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Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:00 PM

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Coates Hires McDonald’s POS & Kiosk Chief As New U.S. GM

New hires at digital signage companies don’t seem to generate many page views on Sixteen:Nine, but this one might be different – a company focused on digital services for QSRs has hired the woman who was previously McDonald’s Director of Global Point of Sale and Self-Order Kiosk. Kim Moore is now the U.S. […]

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Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:26 PM

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16:9: NCR Sales Rep Probably Dancing After Bagging Bojangles Rollout

The big POS company NCR, which now calls itself a leader in omni-channel solutions, has bagged a deal to provide the digital signage solution for the Southern US-centric fast food chain Bojangles. The chain will use NCR Vitalcast at its company-owned stores, which makes up more than 40% of the total stores in the roughly 700-unit Bojangles footprint. […]

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Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:19 AM

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Coates Formally Launches VR Tool To Help Sell QSR Digital Signage Solutions

The Aussie firm Coates Group has formally started marketing its in-house virtual reality capabilities as a way to understand how digital signage and interactive screens could be integrated into the stores of its target vertical – fast food restaurants. […]

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Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:30 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Leo Coates, The Coates Group

In this episode, I’m having a chat with Leo Coates of The Coates Group, an end-to-end digital signage solutions provider that’s heavily focused on the quick service restaurant sector. The Australian company already has a footprint in 35 countries – everything from rollouts to trials. […]

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Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:05 AM

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Three Hard-Won Lessons For Rolling Out Large QSR Digital Signage Projects

Guest Post: Gord Phillips Gord Phillips I remember thinking when I first started putting together what turned into Canada’s biggest digital menu board network: “This will be easy. I’m a professional engineer and pretty good at DIY.” That was 2007, and turns out, it wasn’t that easy. […]

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Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:36 PM

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16:9: White Label QSR Uses Digital Signage To Change Brand And Offers On Demand

Here’s an interesting take on using digital signage in the restaurant business – make the displays the dominant visual marketing element, and change the restaurant brand, menu and operator on demand. That’s what the specialist agency Beaver Group has developed for London Excel, an exhibition and conference center in London, UK. […]

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Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:39 AM

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16:9: How digital signage helps QSR businesses compete

Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Recently, the QSR industry has been struggling with customer apathy. Faced with a barrage of signage, those driving by simply look at all QSRs as more of the same. We have all seen the attempts at differentiation, like the famous dollar menu … now some offer “premium” food made to order, coffee bars, and healthier food choices. […]

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Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:22 PM

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New Johns Hopkins Study Backs Up Value Of Adding Calorie Counts To Menus

A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests U.S.-based chain restaurants that voluntarily list calorie counts on their menus are compelling diners to eat less, something that arguably backs up the federal edict to get calorie counts on all US fast food menus by the end of next year. […]

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Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:35 AM

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Starbucks Adding Outdoor Video Displays In 2,400 US Drive-Thrus

Photo from Retail Touchpoints My suspicion is that the guys who specialize in outdoor displays are already all over this, but if not, they’ll be very interested in news that Starbucks is adding daylight-readable displays to some 2,400 drive-thru lanes in the United States. […]

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Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:07 PM

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Projects: Armodilo Keeps Eatsa’s Screens Good Looking And Up

Remember that cool automated QSR in San Francisco that was reminiscent of a ’50s automat diner? Turns out the ordering screens come from just up the road from me in St. Jacob’s, Ontario, from the nice folks (and loyal 16:9 sponsors) at Armodilo Display Solutions. […]

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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:35 PM

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16:9: The Digital QSR Future Is Now … But Ya Gotta Like Quinoa

A new San Francisco eatery called Eatsa has gone as far as I have ever seen integrating digital into its customer experience – actually removing visible staffing from the mix. Ordering is all done by tablets, payment is all by plastic, a big video wall promotes the overall product and lets customers know order status, and transparent LCDs double as doors to cubbies where you food arrives. […]

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Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM

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