Mobile Point of Sale (POS)

New app functions allow guests to customize their restaurant experience from the palm of their hands.

With IT spending on the rise, restaurants look toward technology to streamline workflow and improve biz practices.

Bravo Brio Restaurant Group bolsters its loyalty membership with various functionalities of a mobile app from Paytronix.  Sponsored.

The 10th installment of the Restaurant Executive Summit put a laser focus on how to improve connections not only with guests, but with staff as well. Crafted under the theme of "Feeding Consumers with a #Digital @ppetite," the Summit armed attendees with truly actionable strategies over the course of three days of networking and educational sessions and workshops.

Take this quiz about your current and planned POS innovations. Add up your points up to see how your company measures up against industry trends, and find out if you're a POS innovator, follower or laggard. Sponsored.

In this annual report, Hospitality Technology investigates the trends and business drivers that are shaping the point of sale landscape. By querying the vendor community, HT recaps the latest innovations, reveals forward-looking plans for technology offerings in 2015, and gleans insights into what trends these suppliers impacting the POS. Also included are the results of the POS Software Reader Survey, where operators reveal plans for investment and features they are looking for in upgrades. Overwhelmingly, both operators and vendors agree the POS has been forever changed by the emergence of new mobile payment methods and the call for greater security – particularly as it relates to the EMV liability shift.

HT's annual Lodging Technology Study tracks budgets, business objectives, and investment allocation trends in hotel IT. This report incorporates feedback from hoteliers to produce a comprehensive and useful set of findings, diving significantly deeper into top goals and challenges for IT teams, the role of IT leaders in business strategy and planned investments for in-room, guest-facing and property systems. Sponsored.
 

OTG Management iPad customer experience platform allows passengers to use boarding pass to pay for food, dining and amenities with MileagePlus Miles.