The Restaurant Studios hardware story covers the whole building: pay at the table, station terminals, kitchen displays, Frame digital poster boards and menu boards, local Hub appliance, small e-ink QR table screens, live TV, and surveillance that all feed the same operating picture.
Pay at the tableStation terminalsKitchen displaysFrame signageTable QR screensSurveillance
Paytable-side payment
KDSkitchen and expo displays
Framedigital poster boards
Station terminals
Fast POS terminals for every station role.
Counter, bar, host, handheld, and manager stations should feel premium and fast. The hardware direction is clean black devices, strong stands, simple cable paths, managed app installs, and station roles that match the way the restaurant actually serves.
Counter, host, bar, server, and manager terminals
Managed POS app deployment
Fast touch-first station experience
Pay at the table
Table-side payment without slowing the server down.
Pay-at-the-table hardware lets guests settle where the meal happens while the POS, pay client, and Hub keep the ticket state clean. It is part of the connected floor, not a separate payment island.
Handheld and table-side payment moments
Guest-facing settlement flow
Connected to POS ticket and Hub state
Kitchen displays
Kitchen screens that show the rush clearly.
KDS hardware gives expo, grill, salad, prep, and other stations the right view. These screens become part of the AI alert story because kitchen pace and ticket aging can feed manager visibility.
Expo, grill, salad, and prep display roles
Ticket pressure and aging visibility
Kitchen signals for the virtual manager layer
Frame signage
Beautiful digital poster boards, menu boards, and live TV.
Frame turns restaurant displays into managed brand surfaces. Build art in Canvas, schedule menu boards and promos by daypart, push designs from the management platform, support automatic TV turn-off, and switch to live TV when the restaurant wants entertainment instead of artwork.
Canvas-created designs sent directly to screens
Scheduled art, displays, promos, and menu board dayparts
Automatic TV turn-off support
Table QR display
A quiet e-ink screen for every table.
The in-house table display direction uses a small e-paper screen with a QR entry point. Guests scan into Restaurant Studios, interact with their ticket, add items, see food progress, and leave feedback without turning the table into a kiosk.
ESP32-C6 e-paper prototype path
QR launch into the guest app
Guest ordering, ticket visibility, and feedback touchpoints
Surveillance + Hub
Surveillance and the local Hub complete the hardware layer.
The in-house surveillance platform, local Hub, and managed device fleet give Restaurant Studios the context to connect what happened at the table, what happened in the kitchen, and what managers should do next.
In-house surveillance platform
On-site Hub appliance
Operational playback and alert context
Next step
Hardware should make the restaurant smarter, not just more expensive.
The goal is a connected restaurant where every screen, Frame display, terminal, table QR, camera, and Hub signal helps the operator understand and improve service.