The restart/sleep/cancel/shutdown menu shows up all the time.

We have one of the newest imacs (beveled back), and it has started automatically asking if we want to restart/sleep/cancel/shutdown as if we had pressed the on/off button. If I hit cancel it comes back up again shortly thereafter.
Is it a faulty on/off button that need to go in for repair?

You should really use the Apple dropdown menu to select Sleep, Restart or Shutdown instead of using the power button.
To "Allow the power button to put the computer to sleep" Go to: Apple > System Preferences > Energy Saver and check the box "Allow the power button to put the computer to sleep"
Noting that: the power button should only be used to shutdown an iMac, if it is totally unresponsive.

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