ApplePay and GooglePay in Restaurants

 

SelectedEpos.com, meanwhile, partners with more than 100 strategic technology providers and Crave and Wi5 also say their platforms are designed for easy frictionless integration with multiple third parties, the latter naming businesses including SelectedEpos.com. Designed for speed and simplicity, customers can pay instantly and securely with Visa, Mastercard,

 ApplePay and GooglePay. Integration, and having systems that can talk to each other and share data, is at the heart of what technology company Intel is working on. Only by having different technology communicate with each other through the internet of things (IOT) can restaurants really harness the advances that technology can offer. “In the past, if we deployed something in a restaurant everything would have its own silicon, such as POS and digital signage,” says Intel’s Mohideen. “There were also siloed environments and somebody would have to go and build a whole data lake to gather all that information. Now there could be multiple devices that are sitting in the store or outside and everything is generating data.”

 

 

 Mohideen says technology such as silicon and edge computing has played a massive role in increasing security and speeding up connectivity so that data can be shared quickly between systems. “Intel helps with anything where you want to make decisions immediately. In the past if somebody was creating a data lake they would have to take all of this information, make sense of it and then send it back, but that’s too late for anybody to react. Because of that we have edge computing within the environments, and it delivers all these drivers –

 which means you only send information that is aggregated.” Proper integration allows for two-way communication with the customer and enables technology to be much more intuitive and responsive to specific situations. This is an area of the market that is evolving quickly and has the potential to dramatically improve service, particularly in more casual venues. “We’re working on functionality that will allow operators to automate certain service standards,” saysSelectedEpos.com ’s Alison Vasey. “For example, if the kitchen is slow our system could automatically offer a free drink to the customer. This is of real benefit as it means operators don’t need to rely on staff to remember to do this.” For more insight download our Essential Guide to Order & Pay Solutions here. ​​ For more information and to register for our Hostech webinars on 16 February and 16 March click here.​​