Gilbarco Express Ordering wins KioskCom Excellence Award
Gilbarco Express Ordering wins KioskCom Excellence Award
GREENSBORO, NC – April 26, 2007 – Gilbarco’s
Express Ordering system wins KioskCom’s Self
Service Excellence Award in the category of
“Best Food Service Deployment.” The awards honor innovation in
self-service business solutions and interactive digital media. The winning
application, installed at Buc-ees, included food service ordering kiosks at the
fuel island and inside the stores, a kitchen management system, and Enterprise
Director system for management from the head office. Buc-ees Ltd, of Lake
Jackson, Texas, operates 30 convenience stores.
The Express Ordering system empowers customers with
control of their ordering experience. Customers get exactly what they want, faster
than ever. The return on investment for retailers includes increased sales
through consistent up-selling and merchandising, improved efficiency of staff,
reduction in order entry errors and waste, and faster production time.
“Both retailers and customers are experiencing
powerful benefits from our food service technology. Retailers like Buc-ees are generating higher sales and margins by
effectively promoting and upselling through our kiosk application,” said Kirsten
Paust, Gilbarco’s vice president of Retail Systems. “Customers get control and
accuracy of their order which results in a happy, satisfied, and most
importantly loyal customers.”
KioskCom’s 11th Annual Self-Service Expo
in Las Vegas delivers strategic, marketing and technical business solutions for
organizations using self-service through interactive digital media.
KioskCom’s Self-Service Expo provides a focused medium on the benefits of using
self-service technology and interactive digital media, including kiosks,
digital signage, self-checkout and other self-service technologies.
The Express Ordering system is currently on exhibit
at the NACStech
show, Gilbarco Veeder-Root booth 143, at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel
April 30 – May 2.
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About
Gilbarco Veeder-Root
Gilbarco Veeder-Root and Gasboy are leading suppliers of integrated fuel
control, site management, and support services for petroleum marketers and
commercial fueling enterprises worldwide. (www.gilbarco.com, www.veeder.com, www.gasboy.com). For more information visit www.gilbarco.com.
For further
information contact:
Lucy Sackett
Marketing Communications Manager
Gilbarco Veeder-Root
Tel: (336) 547-5607
Fax: (336) 547-5890
e-mail: lucy.sackett@gilbarco.com
Background
from the KioskCom website:
KioskCom
launched the inaugural industry-wide Self-Service Excellence Awards in 2002 to
honor the most successful and innovative self-service and interactive digital
media solutions. Over the years, KioskCom has honored over 150 companies across
multiple industries for their leadership, innovations, and successes with
self-service and interactive digital media solutions.
The Self Service Excellence Awards is unique in that this Awards
Contest has always had a core focus on the success of the self-service and
interactive digital media solution based on the measurements set forth by the
deploying organization, and not just the technology suppliers. Past winners
honored include: BMW, SONY, FedEx, AAA, the US Postal Service, Avis, Hilton
Hotels, Sunoco, SAS, Daimler Chrysler and ExxonMobil.
Judges:
Rufus
Connell, Frost & Sullivan
Bob Goodwin, Gartner
Sunita Gupta, LakeWest Group
Bob Fincher, NetWorld Alliance
Joe Finizio, RSPA - Retail Solutions Providers
Association
Steven Hart, DRAFTFCB
Peter Honebein, Customer Performance Group
Mike Kasavana, NAMA
David Mastrandrea, Delphi International, Inc.
Francie Mendelsohn, Summit Research Associates
Tamara Mendelsohn, Forrester Research
Mike Morrissey, Chain Store Age
Susan Newman, National Retail Federation
Robert Plante, BMW North America
Bob Porter, Euro Kiosk Network
Alex Richardson, Selling Machine Partners, LLC
Janet Webster, United States Postal Service
Categories:
Best Retail
Deployment
Best
Financial Services Deployment
Best Government/Education/Non-Profit Agency Deployment
Best
Travel/Hospitality Deployment
Best Entertainment/Gaming Deployment
Best Healthcare Deployment
Best Human Resources Deployment
Best Food Service Deployment
Best Digital Signage Deployment
Best
Other Deployment (for categories not specified above)
Best
Overall Software Solution
Best Hardware/Enclosure Design
Best New Innovation in a Kiosk Deployment