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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] 

Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) plans to implement a mobile biometric screening device system to help its inland enforcement operations combat illegal immigrants.

As reported in the Straits Times and Today Online, the ICA is investing in MAVIS, the Mobile Automated Verification and Identification System. The handheld system can perform ID and fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics screening without having to bring a suspect into an office.

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The Indian government has started piloting biometric data capture for visa applications as part of its Immigration, Visa, Foreigner’s Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) project, reports The Indian Express.

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Albron, an independent caterer in the Netherlands, will offer biometric- and contactless-based payments in its restaurants thanks to a newly signed agreement with pan-European payment processor Equens.

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Hooters Restaurants has implemented biometric fingerprint readers as a means to prevent loss in transaction and payroll fraud at the restaurant level.

Hooters contracted with DigitalPersona Inc. to install the provider’s U.are.U fingerprint readers with ITWercs Point-of-Sale software in restaurant units. Hooters employees use the readers to authenticate transactions and clock in and out for shifts.

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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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Austrian mobile operator A1, a subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, has teamed up with PayBox Bank to trial NFC mobile payments at select McDonald’s restaurants and Merkur supermarkets.

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