Autonomous restaurants are increasingly appearing throughout North America, with several new entrants into the space in the past couple of weeks alone, despite consumers’ hesitations. Fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen opened its second automated location, featuring its “Infinite Kitchen” technology, Tuesday (Dec. 12) in Huntington Beach,...
As restaurants look to meet consumers’ demand for quick, convenient payments with stored credentials — and to gather more consumer data in in-store transactions — more brands are trying out biometric payments. Casual dining chain Steak ‘n Shake is the latest to test the technology. The restaurant...
PopID now enables palm verification as well as face verification. The firm has partnered with PalmID to add the palm option to its platform for using consumer-initiated biometric verification for digital interactions and payments, PopID said in a Thursday (April 20) press release. “We believe...
Carrefour has enabled facial recognition as a means of verifying payments in the UAE. The retailer, which is operated as a franchise by Majid Al Futtaim in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced on Friday (Feb. 10) that it has teamed up with Network International...
March 03, 2022
When Meta turned off its Face Recognition System in 2021 primarily over information security and data privacy concerns, and to head off inquisitive regulators, the biometrics world held its breath. The pandemic saw a boom of biometrics — temperature scans before entering buildings, use of thermal cameras and more — but facial recognition either wasn’t […]
May 13, 2020
Consumers are conflicted about dining out these days, a fact quickly confirmed by PYMNTS most recent consumer survey. On one hand, the data shows that of all the things consumers...
August 06, 2024
J.P. Morgan Payments expanded its partnership with consumer authentication firm PopID. The collaboration offers in-store biometric payments to merchants in pilot programs across the United States, allowing shoppers to use a “pay-by-face” system without relying on their phones or credit cards, according to a Tuesday (Aug. 6) press release. “Biometric loyalty program check-in and payment […]
April 20, 2023
PopID now enables palm verification as well as face verification. The firm has partnered with PalmID to add the palm option to its platform for using consumer-initiated biometric verification for...
February 10, 2023
Carrefour has enabled facial recognition as a means of verifying payments in the UAE. The retailer, which is operated as a franchise by Majid Al Futtaim in the United Arab...
January 13, 2023
PopID and Toshiba have partnered to add biometrics to point-of-sale (POS) and self-checkout systems. With the new collaboration, PopID’s biometric solution PopPay will be integrated into Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions’...
