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Select Wendy’s restaurants implement biometrics

Friday, June 19, 2009

Digital Persona, a developer of biometrics solutions, has announced that it has been chosen by Tar Heel Capital, the largest franchisee of Wendy’s restaurants, for providing them with a biometric solution for their point of sale terminals to replace their magnetic card readers and employee ID cards for employee time and attendance. The system rolled out was Digital Persona U.are.U and also includes fingerprint readers.


As the system both better secures transactions at the registers as well as tracks employees time and attendance via their fingerprints, Tar Heel has already seen a return on their investment on the biometric systems from Digital Persona. This is due to a number of factors including better data tracking on the registers, more accurate employee paychecks, not having to replace ID cards and removal of costs associated with misused cards.

“Back when we were using swipe cards, we experienced significant abuses in fictitious voids, overrides and time clock fraud. By deploying DigitalPersona fingerprint readers, we substantially reduced theft at each location and saw an immediate drop in food costs as a percentage of overall sales,” said Rob Ireland, director of information technology for Tar Heel Capital. [end] 

Oracle has released a new version of Oracle Retail Point-of-Service that aims to increase security, operational efficiency and functionality in part by integrating biometrics.

Oracle partnered with DigitalPersonal to add integrated biometrics to the POS package. Users of the software will login using their fingerprint, which will replace the need for PINs or passwords. This feature intends to reduce fraud by eliminating the possibility of unauthorized employees using a manager ID or swipe card to access the POS and approve overrides.

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Garden Fresh Restaurants, a buffet-style restaurant chain, has implemented a fingerprint-based authentication system from DigitalPersona at each of its point-of-sale (POS) systems in an effort to control access and improve accountability with their registers, according to a Security Director News article.

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The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection.

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Ottowa’s Spoonity is gearing up to launch an NFC-based mobile rewards program for local restaurants and cafés, reports Katana EMC.

In October, Spoonity received a $30,000 grant to develop the mobile system, which it plans to roll out early next year. In the meantime the start-up has introduced a card-based version that enables customers to ditch their various loyalty cards in favor of a single Spoonity key fob.

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The OneCard from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, can now be used at three off-campus restaurants with more merchants set to join.

“It’s a project we’ve been working on for some time now and its finally coming to fruition,” said OneCard Coordinator Chris Bird.

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ImageWare Systems announced that the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency that oversees Los Angeles International (LAX) airport, LA/Ontario International airport and Van Nuys airport, has placed an order for a number of biometric identity management and credentialing solutions.

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