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17 Apr 2026

An editorial illustration of a large wall-mounted flat-screen display in a busy restaurant kitchen, showing rows of stylised order tickets in warm ambient light

Moving the kitchen TV display off Chromecast — the 2026 hardware landscape

Chromecast with Google TV is discontinued. We have spent the year looking at what replaces it for restaurant order displays — Fire TV, Onn, Vega OS, Apple TV — and here is where we landed.

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Carlos Butler

15 Apr 2026

An editorial illustration of two hands meeting over a polished wooden bar counter, one holding an iPhone and the other a contactless card, soft warm late-afternoon light

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Tap to Pay on iPhone in UK hospitality — the state of play in 2026

Tap to Pay on iPhone has quietly become a real option for UK restaurants and bars. Here is what is different, what is the same as a traditional terminal, and why you still probably want a proper card reader on your main counter.

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Carlos Butler

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