You can currently set series labels to position "center" on the pie chart to get them to render on the slices, but sometimes slices are too small to contain these labels. It would be great if there were an option for the chart to detect when a slice is too small and render the label outside the chart, while still rendering labels on pie slices that are big enough to contain them.
For what it's worth, Google Charts and Flot charts (can) somewhat behave this way, except that they do not show the label if the slice is too small (for Flot, it's a configurable option). Even that would be an improvement to the Kendo UI pie-chart, but I really like the idea of the label bumping out if the slice is too small.