Introducing the XPR Discovery Feed: A Smarter First Screen for Every Kiosk

For years, self-ordering kiosks have opened the same way. A guest taps the screen and lands on whichever menu category happens to come first — Pizza, Burgers, Sandwiches. Functional, but not exactly inspiring. The kiosk was acting like a directory, when it could be acting like a recommendation.

That changes with the Discovery Feed — the new default landing experience now live on every XPR kiosk.

A Curated Homepage for Your Kiosk

Instead of dropping guests straight into a category, the Discovery Feed greets them with a curated homepage of what's worth ordering right now. It's organized into four sections, each designed to answer a different question a guest might have when they walk up:

• Chef's Picks — Handpicked by your team to spotlight signature dishes, new launches, limited-time offers, or high-margin items you want to push.
• Popular Right Now — A daypart-aware section that automatically adapts to the time of day. Depending on when a guest walks up, they'll see Breakfast Favourites, Lunch Hits, Afternoon Picks, Dinner Favourites, or Late Night Cravings — drawn from what's actually being ordered at that location during that part of the day.
• Most Ordered — A rolling look at customer favourites from the last two weeks at this specific outlet, based on real transaction data.
• Great Together — Smart pairings of items that real guests are buying together, surfaced as ready-made combos that simplify the decision and lift basket size.

The Best of Both Worlds: Restaurant Curation Meets Guest Behavior

Most "featured items" screens fall into one of two camps. Either they're entirely manual — head office picks a few items and pushes them to every kiosk in the fleet — or they're entirely algorithmic, with no room for the people who actually run the restaurant to merchandise what matters. Both approaches leave value on the table.

The Discovery Feed is deliberately built as a hybrid. Chef's Picks gives operators full editorial control to spotlight signature dishes, promote new launches, push high-margin items, or tie into a marketing campaign. Meanwhile, Popular Right Now, Most Ordered, and Great Together are generated automatically from the location's own transaction history and refresh as guest behavior shifts.

That combination matters because it's location-aware in a way a head-office decision never can be. Two outlets of the same brand will see two different feeds, because each one is shaped by that kiosk's own data. The crowd-pleaser at your airport terminal isn't necessarily the bestseller at your stadium concourse, and a national park concession serves a very different audience than a downtown food hall. Now your kiosk knows that — without taking the merchandising pen out of your team's hands.

Why It Matters

A well-merchandised first screen does more than look good. It accelerates decision-making at the kiosk, lifts average order value through smarter pairing suggestions, and reduces the cognitive load on guests who don't want to scroll through every category to figure out what to order. For brands operating across multiple venues, it also means every location is being merchandised by its own data — no manual tuning required.

The Discovery Feed turns the kiosk from a menu lookup into a discovery tool — one that gets sharper with every transaction.

Available now across all XPR self-ordering kiosks. Want to see the Discovery Feed in action at your locations? Visit www.xprpos.com or contact our team today.