Biometrics

Over the past few years, much of the talk surrounding technology strategies for hospitality has been how to enable digital touchpoints.

Self check-in technology allows guests to verify their identity by comparing one's face with an ID photograph.

Identity capture and verification is essential to implementing many other high-tech hospitality features, such as concierge text chat, guest service apps, self-serve kiosks, and mobile check-in.

Two-thirds of data breaches are credentials-based, making a hospitality worker the single point of failure in introducing malware or enabling unauthorized access.

How Hooters prevented theft and improved productivity across 452 restaurants worldwide.

Looking for the PCI Council's latest position on mobile payment certification or insight into how pay-at-table devices can speed table turns? HT recaps these stories and 11 more in its monthly POS summary.

Plagued with occurrences of phantom punching and lost employee cards, the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club and the La Jolla Shores Hotel's needed a solution that would undeniably control time and attendance for its 450+ employees. That's when the use of biometrics came to their rescue.

In a dynamic economy where restaurateurs need to work even harder to get customers out of their homes and into their restaurants, the loss of valuable profits to untrusting employees is a disheartening occurrence. Stop employee theft at the POS with these top four loss prevention technologies.

Ask any operator, and they will tell you that point of sale (POS) systems are at the heart of restaurant management systems. Learn how operators across quick service, family/casual, and fine dining restaurants rank POS features, peripherals and system replacement plans in 2009.