With the proliferation of smart phones, mobile wallets have been specializing in recent years as businesses find ways to work them into their payments stream and consumers find the devices impossible to leave behind. Now, mobile payments are coming to the world of electronic games in bars and restaurants. TouchTunes …

Payment technology provider SpotOn Transact LLC looks to expand its footprint in the highly competitive business of restaurant payments with the introduction of SpotOn Marketing Assist, an app that automates email and social-media marketing campaigns for restaurants. The app—which integrates with Spot On’s SpotOn Restaurant POS, SpotOn Order, and SpotOn …

Presto Automation Inc. says its voice-ordering system for restaurants represents a $17-million annual revenue opportunity as the company finishes its first full year as a public company. San Carlos, Calif.-based Presto finished the fiscal year ended June 30 with revenue of $26.1 million, a 14.1% decrease from $30.4 million the …

The hotly contested restaurant point-of-sale market shows no signs of cooling off. Inspire Brands Inc., a global restaurant chain that is home to Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin’, and four other brands, has expanded its work with processor Fiserv Inc. with the goal of unifying in-store, in-app, and online transactions for more …

GoTab Inc., a provider of digital ordering and payment solutions for the hospitality industry, has introduced Pocket POS, a mobile point-of-sale terminal about the size of a mobile phone that enables servers to take orders, manage tabs, process payments, and communicate with hosts and hostesses, as well as kitchen staff, …

Olo Inc., a software-as-a-service platform provider for restaurants, rolled out several enhancements, including the ability for customers to place orders and pay for them using the Olo Pay application at in-restaurant kiosks. Enabling in-restaurant payments at kiosks marks the first availability of card-present payment processing through Olo Pay. Olo developed …

Few retail markets have rebounded from Covid lockdowns as fast as restaurants have. And few have attracted as much attention from payments companies. No wonder. Sales at what the National Restaurant Association calls “eating and drinking places” in the United States totaled $88.1 billion in April, up 0.6% from March. …