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Eye on Acquirers: ‘Signs of Hope’ for Restaurants; ISO Parent Newtek Funds $700 Million in PPP Loans

Merchant processor Shift4 Payments LLC reported Monday it has seen a big jump in restaurant payments in the past week, and the parent company of independent sales organization Newtek Merchant Solutions says it has approved and funded $700 million in loans to small businesses under the federal government’s Covid-19 relief …

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POS System Providers Swing Their Sights on Aiding Restaurants

Two point-of-sale system providers are taking action to help ailing restaurants as they contend with the repercussions of measures to stem the Covid-19 infection. First, TouchBistro Inc., a provider of payments technology for restaurants, launched its Restaurant Recovery Navigator, a collection of products and services aimed at helping dining establishments …

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Shift4 Data Quantifies a Heavy Coronavirus Impact on Restaurants And Hotels

Sobering data from Shift4 Payments LLC shows that U.S. hospitality-industry transaction volume plummeted in mid-March as consumers sheltered in place and travel, both business and personal, waned. Restaurant volume fell from 42 million transactions to 11 million, a 74% decrease for the period from the week of February 2 to …

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New York City Bans Cashless-Only Payments at Restaurants and Retailers

New York City became the third U.S. city to ban cashless-only payments in restaurants and stores with the passage Thursday of a measure to prohibit merchants from refusing to accept cash. San Francisco and Philadelphia have similar bans, as does the state of New Jersey.  Originally proposed by New York …

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Most Full-Service Restaurants Are Frustrated With Their Payments Services, a Survey Finds

Frustration with payments runs high among full-service restaurant operators, so much so that only 20% expressed no frustrations in a new TouchBistro Inc. report released Monday. The other 80% had some issue with their payments services, with many of them, 21%, citing a lack of transparency on pricing. That was …

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Restaurants’ Own Apps Command Most Digital Orders, Research Indicates

When the technology emerged, mobile ordering was thought to be a natural for the restaurant industry, and now there’s some research showing just how popular these apps have become. It turns out that, from 2013 through 2017, digital orders at restaurants grew at an average annual rate of 23%, and …

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EMV Finds a Seat in Restaurants

Forget an a la carte approach to point-of-sale services. EMV has trained restaurant operators to want inclusive features to help run their businesses. Ask point-of-sale system experts to describe the state of EMV acceptance among restaurants, and their choice of words may not be what many expect, or would hope, …

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Eye on Restaurants: BAMS Caters to Full-Service Restaurants; CardFree Launches Pay-At-Table

Payments provider Bank of America Merchant Services announced it and talech, developer of a cloud-based point-of-sale system that uses Apple Inc. iPads, are going after full-service restaurant and bar owners. Announced Tuesday, the deal will see BAMS, which is a merchant-acquiring alliance between First Data Corp. and Bank of America …

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