Mobile Payments will be exploding this year now that ApplePay and the app can be downloaded to your mobile phone. One of the latest to sign up is Panera Bread. The app allows customers to order from their history and favorites,schedule a pickup time, save your customized item and enter your credit card only once.
STarbucks just annouced that 17 percent of all sales at their locations in the past year were done via mobile phone.
The technology is here to stay and it will be interesting to see how venues and which ones become the early adopters with their food service companies.
Centerplate is doing some work in this area as well as Levy. We continue to work with our clients to advise them on the best way to capture this revenue...