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Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The four-month trial took place at Coffee Republic's outlets in Broadgate, Bluewater shopping centre and Canary Wharf between January and April 2008 - and the company said it saw a 50 per cent rise in contactless payments in the Canary Wharf bar... [23 Jul 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News The fast food chain committed to rolling out free wireless internet connectivity across its 1,200 outlets in what observers saw as a move to try and attract more customers away from trendy coffee bars. [19 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.10.07
Round-Up Laptops, coffee, muffins and light jazz. McDonald's ongoing quest to improve its brand from beloved-of-chavs fast food chain to slightly less beloved-of-chavs fast food chain took a bold new step forward with the news that the company's outlets... [12 Oct 2007]
McDonald's: 'Do you want free wi-fi with that?'
News The move is in line with McDonald's strategy to shift the brand into a more upmarket space, currently occupied by trendy coffee bars such as Starbucks. Fast food chain McDonald's is about to roll out a free wi-fi service across its 1,200 outlets in... [06 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: What is city-wide wi-fi?
Comment Amateur wi-fi can mean anything from someone leaving their home WLAN on for others (let's not get hung up here on whether that's bandwidth sharing on purpose or because someone doesn't understand how to lock down their network), to small coffee... [17 Jul 2007]
Wi-fi: How do you eat yours?
News Cafés and other retail outlets come second, accounting for 29 per cent of global wi-fi usage, and hotels are third (23 per cent). Wireless internet access is booming and nowhere more so than in public spaces such as airports, cafés, pubs and hotels. [06 Mar 2007]
Oyster and e-money credit cards coming to London
News It says the tech will suit "fast food outlets, coffee shops, newsagents, off licences, bars, pubs, parking facilities and vending machines". Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card... [13 Dec 2006]
South Africa's Coffee Houses Set to Go Wireless in Seattle
White Paper Retaining the original brand name, Seattle Coffee Company now has 23 outlets. Originated in the USA, the international Seattle Coffee Company organisation was taken over by Starbucks in 2003. Seattle Coffee Company needed reliable hardware so that... [13 Dec 2006]
Visa to launch 'wave and pay' cards in UK
News The technology will allow people to pay for low-value transactions such as coffee and newspapers that total less than £10 by waving their debit card over a reader, without having to sign a receipt or enter a PIN number. [24 Nov 2006]
Bank extends contactless payment project
News PayPass works much like the Oyster card on the London Underground - users place the card on a reader in retail outlets to make payments for low-value items such as coffee or a newspaper. According to MasterCard, which provides the underlying... [09 Nov 2006]
Dial-a-Donut: Romans Opt in for Coffee Coupons
White Paper In the United States, Dunkin' Donuts has for decades been a household name for coffee, donuts, muffins, and all things "early morning. The challenge before them was to increase brand awareness and foot traffic to its eight new outlets in Rome. [17 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The view from China
Comment I'm having a coffee at a service station on the M25 where a contingent of UK army troops in desert kit have swollen the population of travellers. A few are sat around having coffee while another group has gathered around a shoot-'em-up computer... [05 May 2005]
Costa Coffee Standardises Reports on Star POS Printers
White Paper As part of an innovative, space-saving, web-based kiosk solution, Costa Coffee has standardised on the high speed, wide-format TSP800 POS printer from Star Micronics to produce detailed EPOS and E-stock reports in each of the organisation's 250... [18 Feb 2005]
Leader: Where best to get your laptop nicked
Leader Then there is the irony, as expressed before, that for some of these businesses, coffee shops included, the move towards Wi-Fi provision appears to trample over much of the planning which went into their business models in the first place. [07 Sep 2004]
Starbucks goes large with its Wi-Fi network
News Coffee chain Starbucks is more than doubling the size of its Wi-Fi network. Wireless broadband networks are currently being installed in a further 98 Starbucks outlets, in locations such as Inverness, Reading and Canterbury. [25 Mar 2004]
