DigitalPersona has announced it is providing the U.are.U line of fingerprint readers to Sailormen Inc., the largest U.S. franchisee of the Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits fast food restaurant.
The solution will find its way into 148 of the fast food locations throughout Alabama, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri to be part of a new biometric time and attendance solution that would require employees to clock in and out for their shifts via their fingerprints at the point-of-sale systems.
In addition to eliminating buddy-punching and other forms of employee payroll fraud, the new system has already improved accountability, increased sales and reduced unauthorized transactions in the restaurants by requiring a manager actually approve overrides and voids in person.
Other places the franchisee expects to see savings is by switching from a card-based swiping system to the fingerprint-based one, they no longer have to incur the costs of replacing lost cards. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/thirdfactor-4.gif)
