Fast food restaurants embrace contactless payments
22 May, 2006
category: Contactless, Financial, RFID
Live from Chicago, QSRs (better known as “quick service” or “fast food” establishments) are going bonkers over contactless payment modules between samples of red-tea cookies and chili dogs.
Although technology point-of-service provider VeriFone’s been in the contactless space for at least a couple of years, the vendor hit the National Restaurant Association’s Hotel-Motel Show for the first time to unveil a series of payment terminals equipped with RFID capability (for a slew of future contactless payers to come). But the biggest evidence this is happening in the food service sector comes from VeriFone’s biggest fast food customer: McDonalds.
“McDonald’s had to upgrade all of its units to accept contactless technology,” said senior product manager Erik Vlugt, during a panel on self-service and kiosks.
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