So my menu is REALLY big and there is going to be alot of swiping with the waitresses. The best monitor that I know of is the elo 5-wire touch resistive in which I dont see any restaurant grade elo touchscreen being good at swiping down with your finger as its made for single touch.
Id love to hear your experiences and solutions.
Thanks!
I will be using capacitive touch with clear film screen protection. As the screens that my employees will use for taking orders will not need high heat tolerance the only real issue with wear is the constant touching and possibly touching with dirty hands so the screen film protects it in that regard and makes it so you can wipe it clean easily.
My kitchen screens will be resistive. The only touching will be pressing 1 button.
ELO makes several multi-touch options here is one of them. BTW
I do not think I am going to pay the premium for ELO however.
Here is a capacitive offering from ELO
http://www.posworld.com/LCD-Touch-Screen-Monitors/Elo-TouchSystems-2200L-22-inch-Widescreen-Desktop-LCD-Touch-Screen-Monitor.htm
I use a Dell Monitor, and it is optical. Works well… you don’t actually need to touch the screen - small cameras in the bezel detect your fingers, or any object for that matter (like a pencil, or a stick, or bug, etc.).
I actually like it’s behavior better than the ELO touch that I experienced at another shop.
Most ELO are resistive… and single point touch. This is HORRIBLE for any kind of modern touch interface as it does not support swiping and you are forced to use pressure for it to register a touch.
Capacitive is the most used now days…it does not require pressure.
ELO has some technologies that they use fancy names for but its really just capacitive. You can buy good ELO capacitive monitors with multi touch. ELO is well known because of the build quality its little more rugged than an average touchscreen. But any decent non super cheap touchscreen can have that same build quality. There really is nothing special about ELO that makes it better for restaurants although they want you to think that.
Yeah, how well can the capacitive handle spills greasy hands etc. Sometimes waitresses can have oily hands when they try to use the POS.
That would be an issue with some capacitive… If oily hands is an issue for you then research something like what @QMcKay mentioned… or there are also hybrid technologies similar to capacitive but it would support oily hands. Most of this technology has accelerated development lately due to mobile phones.
This is the monitor solution im looking into… 3 yr hardware waranty and pretty cheap! http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=858-BBBE&ST=pla&dgc=ST&cid=262075&lid=4742361&acd=1230980794501410
I believe that is similar to what @QMcKay described… Those are wonderful btw! They work exactly as fluid as a capacitive but you can touch them with virtually anything on your fingers even gloves as long as its not like 2 inches thick lol.
Hey guys I read this review thats kinda scaring me from buying it the dell e2014t. What do you think will the waitress have issues touching another button instead of the one intended. Please let me know, im trying to order one asap. @QMcKay @Jesse @antasp3136
Cons: Really disappointed with just how bad the Optical touchscreen works.
I use it to touch small buttons and it is just not precise at all (yes I have calibrated it over and over).
Sometimes does not even detect touch at all. Other times the point is so far away from where I touched.
A small bug can set your mouse off.
Just wanted to write a review to warn others not to get Optical technology in their touchscreen.
I have three 27" monitors above this one. I work in 3D industry.
Came back to Newegg tonight to find a non optical touchscreen and put this one in the house for less precise work.
Also you must look at it straight on or the colors distort. Mine is at a slight angle to fit under my other screen and I can not use it for any color or texture work (kinda my job).
Do not go by one review. look up more reviews get a better consensus that is my opinion. Sounds like this person bought the wrong kind of monitor for the business they were doing. I would never buy optical for professional 3d work… hell I would never buy touch screen for this. Anyone that works with 3d or texture work would never use their fingers for touch nor would they buy a touch screen to use pen input… they would use wacom tablets. This leads me to believe that this person does not know what they are talking about.
To be honest… what we are working with (Touching POS buttons) does not require much precision at all. However I still think this person is comparing apples to oranges and getting upset when they find that the apple is not orange.
Yeah I looked all over for more reviews, I found another professional one but they failed to mention the touch performance but instead focused on image quality. Im going to go ahead and purchase it, I was just scared that when the waitress is typing on the on screen keyboard there may be issues or pressing on the small + button for free tags as there will be a lot of it going on.
You should be fine. That person if they really are working in 3d or graphics as they mention… precision to them would be smaller than their finger.
Okay thanks for the feedback, I ordered it so ill give you guys my personal review once it comes in.
@eddhasaj and others
Why not just buy an All-in-One touchscreen computer. We use Dell inspiron 2020 w/touchscreen and works perfect. Never have an issue with greasy fingers. Very easy to clean. The screen is one piece and it does not have a bezel for water to penetrate.
The reason I will not buy an all in one is simply theft. I have already had systems stolen via break in… I will be opting for securing my PC under counter mounted to the counter invisible to anyone. I know I cannot prevent it completely but it goes a long way for determent. The only thing visible will be the screen and cables coming up through the counter. I like the clean look of the PC being hidden as well. My cash drawer is under counter mounted. Counter is steel. My monitor will be bolted down as well.
Is that all in one fanless? If its not I can see it overheating within a few years.
I guess, I never thought about theft. 
AIO is not fanless. Fans are on the bottom. This POS computer is underutilized and it never gets anywhere to being hot.
Yeah but when the fan stops working due to dust buildup… Iv seen dell desktop slim PSU go out due to that reason which have the same size fan if not bigger. The grease in the atmosphere can be really sticky with dust when it circulates through the pc.
Why not just go to thin clients with a RDS server and touch screen monitors… No need to worry about hard drives or power supplies dying or blown capaciters since they are low power… Best of all no fans… I work for a dental IT company and we use them all the time no lag at all. They even autoboot to the remote desktop session and redirect USB devices to the server. RDS is also running in a VM isolated from the application server so if it gets corrupted its easy to restore from a hyperv replication. Almost zero downtime unless the server has a hardware melt down. Which if you have good backups and disaster recovery plan then you should be ok. Best thing about thin client too is if it dies all you have to do is replace it and not worry about reconfiguring a OS and software 
To be honest with you I just thought that performance wouldn’t be great with rdp and was scared problems would arise. Do you really think it’s just as practical as installing the program itself on the station computer?