78% of consumers are changing ways they pay

by Pat Shea — Editor, NetworldMedia

Pizza restaurateurs take note: Your customers are evolving almost as rapidly as technology itself when it comes to the ways they pay, according to this Visa…

Optimize Technology to Deliver Better Customer Loyalty & Engagement

When it comes to driving loyalty and increasing profitability through customer relationships, here are four technology-driven tactics imperative to a…

PopID intros pay-by-face solution

August 14, 2020

PopID, a Cali Group company, has launched its PopPay face-pay service, which lets users pay with their faces at facial recognition devices. Customers can link…

Mad Mobile acquires Sysco's restaurant technology company CAKE

August 10, 2020

Mad Mobile Inc., a mobile platform for restaurants and retailers, has signed an agreement to acquire CAKE, a restaurant technology company based in Silicon…

Automated drink dispenser maker Botrista raises $4M+

August 7, 2020

Botrista Technology, a startup based in Silicon Valley that provides an automated cloud-connected drink dispenser called DrinkBot, raised $4 million in seed…

A pizza restaurateur's guide to COVID-era profitability

The sweet spot when it comes to profitability for pizza brands is 75% capacity. But how is that achievable when the pandemic forces restaurateurs to cut…

TouchBistro acquires loyalty and marketing solutions provider TableUp

August 6, 2020

TouchBistro, a foodservice point-of-sale solutions provider, has acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the…

Grubbrr teams with BlueStar to meet commerce automation demand post COVID-19

August 5, 2020

Grubbrr, a commerce automation company, has teamed with with BlueStar, a global distributor of solution-based technologies, to help meet the demand for…

Onosys, ItsaCheckmate join to create restaurant-ordering solutions

August 3, 2020

Onosys, a platform for restaurant digital ordering, and ItsaCheckmate, a provider of end-to-end integrations between POS systems, third-party delivery and…

Qu-Franklin Junction solution aggregates delivery orders, gives brands power to multiply

July 30, 2020

API-based POS provider, Qu, has joined two-sided restaurant marketplace, Franklin Junction, to create a platform that uses a Qu tablet product to collect…

Contactless tech: Restaurants' 'new reality'

by Breck Hapner — Director of Marketing, Chepri

For restaurants today, contactless tech is fast-becoming as essential to business as the food itself.

How 1 pizza chain drove mid-market growth in the digital age

July 28, 2020

As the nation struggles with a resurgence of COVID-19 cases from L.A. to the Big Apple and many places in between, restaurateurs are struggling to adjust…

New virtual summit focuses on innovation, customer experience in self-service, kiosk, vending industries

Networld Media websites, Vending Times and Kiosk Marketplace, are launching a virtual summit that promises to bring attendees the very best in self-service…

[ON-DEMAND WEBINAR]: How franchisees can drive mid-market growth in the digital age

Stay on the leading edge and learn what the best brands are doing technologically and how they're doing it to stay neck-and-neck with diners' expectations

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With patent in hand, Mici 'presses' forward with national franchising

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Don't tell the restaurateurs behind Mici Handcrafted Italian this might be an inopportune time to launch a franchise nationally. They'll just tell you why the…

Tillster digital ordering platform joins ParTech's Brink POS ecosystem

July 7, 2020

ParTech Inc., a provider of pont-of-sale software for the restaurant and retail industries, has added the Tillster digital ordering platform to the cloud-based…

Anonymous restaurant check-in offers option for security-wary diners

July 3, 2020

A Canadian company called, I Checked In, has released a contact-tracing service that restaurants and other businesses can use to contact customers who want to…

How franchisees can drive mid-market growth in the digital age

Using digital tech to maximum effect is the focus of an hour-long discussion with two leaders at Ohio-based pizza chain, Romeo's Pizza on July 14.

"See-food' app enters the scene

June 25, 2020

Jeet App, which allows diners to see photos of menu items before ordering, has hit the app store, a news release said.

Visa programs aim to help 50M SMBs drive digital business

June 22, 2020

Visa is offering 50 million small and micro businesses a range of services to help them grow more efficiently, build their online footprints and promote…