Serving-Up Success for Restaurants with Payment Innovation

Following the hurdle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. restaurant industry is seeing unprecedented growth, with sales reaching $1 trillion for the first time ever in 2024, according to the National Restaurant Association. In 2025, the foodservice industry’s growth will be driven by payment innovation and individual payment service providers (PSPs) and Agent/ISOs.

This panel will offer insight into how payment companies can better serve payment solutions to restaurants and their customers. Panelists will provide unique perspectives on how payments can support small and mid-sized restaurant growth by streamlining the customer journey for diners and making them hungry and returning for more. The discussion explores what follows dessert –what is the future of payments for American restaurants? Panelists explore payment innovation: from contactless payments, mobile wallets, the global transition to mobile Point of Sale (mPOS), QR code payments, online ordering, and delivery apps. Panelists also will look at payments challenges the industry has faced.